Panda Express #3

Deluxe Suite, Fraser Suites Chengdu

It's a bit interesting to see either the room is big or small, there are too many stuff in the room making it a bit awkward.

A country of bamboo

Panda Express #2

柴門頭啖湯 [Bavindoor (first sip) soup], Yanlord Landmark mall, Chengdu, China

The shop was very near to the hotel I stayed.  The waitress was very kind to explain the menu pages and let us take time to check for the dishes.  So we ordered a guard leaves in chilled soy sauce, Ma Po bean curd, roasted duck in Sze Chuan spicy sauce. double boiled pear with pork, Dan Dan noodle and a steamed bun with chopped veggie and dried bean curd.  A bit interesting that all the dishes weren't that heavily seasoned but rather in an intrigue pepper flavour.  Very different from those we had in HK and other Asian places.  The closer one is the Kiki restaurant of Taipei.  Another delight was the peanuts.  It was surprisingly good and well deserving as 天府花生 (heaven residence peanuts).  The meal was so nice that I came back for a second visit before leaving Chengdu.

Down town, Chengdu, China

Panda Express #1

Viewing Hong Kong from north east.

Rarely I could have this angle of view to Hong Kong, from north east.  On the right, that's Shatin/Tai Wai.  On the below is Sai Kung.  In the middle to left that's Kowloon.  On the left that's Hong Kong Island.  You could see Lamma island after that.  Further, on the upper middle, that's Lantau Island.

In the autumn to winter time, due to the off shore wind, HK would become more hazy.  Hope those should notice this scientific fact rather than making any irrelevant claim.

A breakfast of a floral morning, at Cafe Vista, Vista Wanda Hotel Kunming

The breakfast of this cafe was quite impressive that they have a very wide variety and yet those were of some good quality.  I noticed they have a local famous flower pastry (the purple one on the left bottom of photo 1).  Yunan is very famous of her flowers.  So using flowers in their local cuisine is natural.  I took this pastry for every breakfast.

Vista Wanda Hotel Kunming, Yunan

昆明市中心五華區 (Wu Hua district, Kunming downtown)

醉云喃滇民族菜 (Zui Yunan, local cusine), Wanda Plaza, Kunming, Yunan

Watched some gourmet programs about Yunan cuisine, like steamed pork belly with taro (photo 5), steamed chicken soup in clay pot (photo 2), cabbage in taro paste (photo 3), and wheat pancake in honey (photo 4).  The dishes were actually a bit greasy to me but it's nice to try them.