(going by my mobile diary ^^")
So. Day two. I woke up around 7-8am to end up drinking lots of tea. Lots and lots of tea. I guess you could say it's customary for them to drink tea in china any hours of the day, so I got to learn how to prepare "gong fu cha" or "kungfu cha".
We took the subway to some park and swapped over to another subway. I personally like their travel cards, it's a lot more convenient than the metro. It's further along anyway.
We went to a "museum" apparently, although I think what I meant in my diary was just some historic place...hmm not sure. Here's the place I was probably talking about:
Anyway, all the ornamental decorations you could see around the place was pretty amazing. Those kind of things are probably really hard to reproduce in this day and age huh?
Afterward, we went to this central shopping area, which was a place we would be frequenting a bit. It has a lot of shops there, which is no joke- there are shops within the smallest places that it's ridiculous.
Apparently he was famous for appearing at the Asian Olympics or something.. not too sure
We also went down a street that sold food around there, so it was like a small market. I was really looking forward to it, because street food always looked so nice, especially how they show them on those food expert shows on tv. Problem is, the hygiene around there D: You can see a lot of people who litter, spit- even shooting snot out of their nose DD: Also at one stand was this man, grinding some sesame into a paste, with his bare feet holding the mortar D:
Some food found on this street
After checking around, we headed towards our final destination, a karaoke joint. It was humongous, there were different levels for the whole joint! I guess that's something else that's different to Australia; due to high population and having to live in such a small area, they need to find other sorts of entertainment. Karaoke is highly popular among all social classes and ages, so you can see all sorts of people there. It was roughly 15-20 bucks per person, so around 2-3 dollars here?
So we made our way to our own little room, which was quite pretty although kinda dark. Also did I mention that this included an all you can eat banquet? XD First thing we did was go towards the food area, and grabbed some plates for some food. Granted, the food wasn't that great, but it was quite pretty to look at.
The karaoke room
Some of the desserts. I thought it was actual cake, but really, it's more of a chinese bread with icing
My sister and I ended up singing quite a lot of songs (English, although I would have liked to try some of those chinese classics that everyone knows) which was quite tiring. I think we had a few hours singing? All I can say is that I hope I don't have to hear my uncle sing for a long time T.T So loud.
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