One of the most famous foods from my Teochew motherland: Fried Oyster Omelette!
It is also one of my favourite food.
According to our tour guide, this is one of the most famous restaurant over there...
Despite the fact that we just had a full lunch, we simply cannot give this a miss..
For approximately the price 6 SGD, there were more oysters than eggs! I hope to have the chance to go back to eat it again because I am missing it already as I am writing this blog post.
The next 'famous' thingy around here I am going to mention is this fruit named Fo Shou(佛手)..
I got to see the real life plant with fruits on it!
What people here do is they will keep the fruit till it turns black in colour, and many more years after. It is supposed to get better at curing certain ailments the longer u keep it. Of course, the older it gets, the more expensive it is.
The next 'famous' thing over here that I am going to touch on..the Lionhead Goose(狮头鹅) and its liver. This is one of the biggest species of goose known and it originates right here in Shantou. I did not managed to get one on photo,but u can take a look at the size of its eggs..
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Travel to "Teochew Land", Shantou(汕头), China Part 3
While travelling in China, sometimes it is inevitable that your tour guide will bring you to tea appreciation sessions and usually,at these places,the prices are about 5 times that of what a local would pay. Even at 5 times more, it is not that expensive at all..if you do not have much time to shop around comparing prices of tea,you can buy a bit here and there to try at these tea sessions.
The difference I notice here in Shantou as compared to the Northern parts of China lays in that they don't really use teapots here, but just a larger tea cup to hold the tea leaves and distributing the tea into smaller cups. I have since mastered the art of using the big tea cup from this trip.
They have such big containers for tea leaves..I call the big ones tea drum..
During our journey, our tour bus suffered a burst tyre on the expressway, but with a bit of good luck, our driver was able to very quickly find a tyre shop at the next exit to change the tyre.
Well..I did try to use the opportunity to act as if i was part of the action..
As we carried on the journey shortly after,I was really surprised to see many wind turbines( a form of renewable energy generators) along ranges of mountains that stretches as far as my eyes could see..Impressive! The impact hit me like how the grand opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics did!
I cannot help but feel like China had already overtaken Singapore in terms of new technology and its implementation. To think that here in Singapore,we still have not move on from talks of getting a nuclear reactor generator..feels more like taking a step backwards.
The difference I notice here in Shantou as compared to the Northern parts of China lays in that they don't really use teapots here, but just a larger tea cup to hold the tea leaves and distributing the tea into smaller cups. I have since mastered the art of using the big tea cup from this trip.
They have such big containers for tea leaves..I call the big ones tea drum..
During our journey, our tour bus suffered a burst tyre on the expressway, but with a bit of good luck, our driver was able to very quickly find a tyre shop at the next exit to change the tyre.
Well..I did try to use the opportunity to act as if i was part of the action..
As we carried on the journey shortly after,I was really surprised to see many wind turbines( a form of renewable energy generators) along ranges of mountains that stretches as far as my eyes could see..Impressive! The impact hit me like how the grand opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics did!
I cannot help but feel like China had already overtaken Singapore in terms of new technology and its implementation. To think that here in Singapore,we still have not move on from talks of getting a nuclear reactor generator..feels more like taking a step backwards.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
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