Sorry it’s been such a long time since my last update! Time flies by so fast now I can’t believe it’s
been over 2 weeks since my last post.
Things have slowed down a bit so I feel like there’s less to fill people
in on… and I’m lazy haha. But I’ll go
with my first reason since that sounds better :P
Last weekend, I went with some friends to a city outside of
Beijing called Tianjin. It’s to the
southeast of Beijing on the Bohai Sea.
It’s a historic city that apparently is the largest industrial base and
trade centre in northern China. It was a
gorgeous city and the architecture was amazing.
It had a much more European feel than any place I’ve been in China so
far. The only thing that detracted from
it was how bad the pollution was. I didn’t
think anywhere could be worse than Beijing, but man was I wrong. Maybe because it’s an industrial city so
there’s more pollution?
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| Pollution ... blegh |
On my trip to Beijing I got to experience the high speed
train for the first time! We took it
from Beijing to Tianjin and it only cost 55 RMB (~$9) each way! It was different from my other experiences
with trains so far in China because the high speed train is newer and
cleaner. We were at Tianjin in 30
min! I can’t even fathom how fast it
must have been moving because being inside the train, you really can’t tell at
all.
When we got to Tianjin, our first stop was an area that was
called the “Italian Style District.” It
was essentially an area with Italian inspired architecture and “Italian”
food. At least the Chinese take on
it. From my experiences eating in
Beijing so far, different culture’s food here tastes just a littttttle bit
different from what it should be. It was
interesting getting to walk around and see the buildings and whatnot. We ended up eating Thai food in the “Italian
Style District.” Kind of ironic but none
of the Italian food looked good :P. And
the Thai food ended up being pretty tasty!
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| Italian Style District |
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| Yummy Thai food |
We also got to visit an area called Gu Long Da Gie.
Which is essentially a long street with a
whole bunch of shops and food stalls lining it.
China is fillllled with these!
Nothing too different from what we’ve seen before, but always fun to
walk around.
We mostly wandered our way
through the city since we didn’t really have a set plan on what to do while we
were there.
We probably should have… because
after we returned, we realized there were a couple more popular sites that we
missed out on.
However, right before we
got back to the train station to head back to Beijing, we got to see a really pretty
river with gorgeous buildings lining it.
It was nice to end our trip there with such a nice view.
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| Entrance to Gu Long Da Gie |
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| Night view along the river |
One thing I've noticed while being here is that there are surprisingly a large population of Koreans here in China. And Tsinghua especially. So there is a lot of Korean food and Korean supermarkets around Tsinghua. The food I've tried has been pretty tasty so far (Bibimbap!). I was in the Korean supermarket a while ago and saw some interesting things...
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| Cream Soda with milk sound tasty to anyone? |
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| How about Korean spam? |
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| Or maybe silkworm pupa? |
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