Hang Su Zhou

Today we're traveling from HangZhou to SuZhou. ((:


Bought as many Wang LeeHom's mineral water bottles as I can while I was there!!!


Breakfast @ the hotel.


Named Hong Lou.


Start the engines babe! We're heading west.


West Lake.


Why can't we grow flowers like that in our country?


Dad pointed out how they maintain the trees from falling down. See the long, slanted pole?

Don't know if these are interesting, but here you go -- fish and birds. =/



Plenty of em'.


This is a very, Very, VERY annoying lady making noise pollution everywhere around the park. That little tube she's blowing creates sounds of a chirping bird.


Now we're going to cruise the West Lake.


Our nicely carved wooden boat.


Sigh~ I miss my brother. He's studying medic @ Sarawak now... )'=


Cin: Hey Eu, look! There's a TV all along, & no one even noticed it.
Eu : Where? Oh, ya loh.


3 minutes later.

Eu : HEY! That's NOT a TV; that's a PICTURE!!
Cin: REALLY?? Oh. Oh... yea, it's not. It's not moving is it!? @@

Both: HAHAHAHA....

Our laughter did not stop there. The laughter between us is freakking contagious. Just put us together, and the monent any one of us starts laughing, we both become hysterical and we could laugh about nothing at all. It's like we're high on shrooms, weed, or drugs.

This boat got us into this unbelievably boring cruising plan, and this man:


Which happened to be our temporary tour guide, has been talking for ages. But no one really paid attention to him.

He recited the love tale that happened between this bridge,


And this bridge.


I don't know why but that's when Eu and I burst out laughing like nuts! It is really contagious and very healthy. Well you know what they say - Laughter is the BEST Medicine!!!


Bye, boat. You're so memorable. =P


Next up is a famous tea plantation place for China's, or more specifically HangZhou's Yin Long Cha.


It's not Cameron Highlands.


These are the woks used to fry the tea leaves.


These leaves are fried using this man's hands. No wonder his hands looked so red and burnt. Poor hands, man.


Different grades, different quality, vast difference when it comes to price.


We were brought into a room to have a crisp taste of this fragrant tea.


There are three steps to drink Yin Long Cha. Pour in the water - hot OR cold. If you pour in cold water, just wait for 30 minutes before drinking it.


Pour only this little of hot water. Indulge in the fragrance first.


Then fill in the other third quarter of water, and now you can enjoy your cuppa tea!


Tea Candy!


Lunch was an absolutely sensational one @ Lou Wai Lou.


My family.


The wall deco looked so pretty and detailed at the same time, I couldn't help not take a picture.


Dad was laughing out loud at this; couldn't tell why! LOL


While waiting for food.



Very famous, very delicious, finger lickin' good paper wrapped chicken.


Pai Gu. *Slurrrpppssss~*


Ikan masak Cuka. One of their most famous dishes here.


You'll see a LOT of this (shrimps). Very very famous and favourable.


The texture of these leaves are Damn special. It's one of it's kind and I swear, my tongue has never felt that way before.


The ultimate applauded dish is none other than Tong Po Rou.


He is not my grandpa, we just happened to wear a hat. XD


After lunch, we slept for a while and woke up in SuZhou.

Destinations: Wang Shi Yuan, and Guang Qian Street.


Wang Shi Yuan is a classic example of how a rich SuZhou man house looks like.


We had to walk along this narrow street to reach the old style mansion. You'd better be careful because they actually display fragile, easily breakable items in front and if you break them, these owners would lie and say it's antique thus charge you a whole shit load of money.


The entrance. This is the lucky tree.


OMG I felt like a princess. This lovely zen-like park belongs to the rich man's daughter. Can you find the doorway to her bedroom?


I'm sure you can't. It is the rocks that lead you to her room upstairs. Just like Rapunzel.


Apparently, according to the tour guide, this is the 'picture perfect' spot.


Brother and me.


Dad and ama.

Here's a video of our funny tour guide singing a Sonata:


Did you like it? HAHAHA!!!



Back to the hotel room...


There's a glass wall between the toilet and the bathroom, and I wonder what difference that makes. It's not like you'd like to poo poo when your hubby is showering! Geeezzz~


Walked along Guang Qian Street to the restaurant.


Another absolutely sensational meal awaiting.




It's like a meal for the King!


Squirrel Fish with cherries as its eyes. @@


See I told ya you'd see a LOT of these. Too famous to begin with I reckon.


Dates and Pine nuts delicacy --- I like this one. Never tasted anything like this before.


Guang Qian street is my most favourable place to shop actually. Not Shanghai. However, since it was getting late and ama wasn't feeling very well, I didn't manage to buy anything for myself .

However, can you believe that -- Original CDs there are SO bloody CHEAP compared to ori Cds here in Malaysia! How come?!?!?!


That's so unfair. My Wang LeeHom CD! I could've bought his WHOLE collection there for the price of one pathetic piece in this country. FML, what is cheap here. Barangan Buatan Malaysia konon?

Even ZARA that's "Made in Malaysia" is NOT cheap okay~ Hello???