Shanghai at night on the Huangpu River Classic 1930s Jazz at the Jazz Bar at the Peace Hotel Cruise on the Huangpu River The Bullet Train to Beijing! As I mentioned in my previous post, we first went to the historic Peace Hotel on our Shanghai-Lander “Breakfast and Bund” Tour, Read more…
Tongli Water Town Xitang Water Town Tongli Water Town Our Tongli Gondolier! Cormorants – Tongli Water Town Our third day in Shanghai we took an excellent full-day tour to two of the beautiful Water Towns, Tongli and Xitang, near Shanghai, with Miki Tours. I booked this tour through Viator, as Read more…
Hand-Pulling Noodles… MARVELOUS Shanghai Soup Dumplings! Shanghai Tea House Making THE best soup dumplings! THE best Shanghai breakfast WonTons! We did a lot of fun things during our five first days in China in Shanghai, but because this was a “foodie-centric” trip, I am going to devote this Read more…
Baiju tasting…. Tea in Shanghai… On a boat in one of the “Water Towns”… Yummy “meat-on-a-stick”! Learning to make dumplings Steam Train… Bullet Train… Harbin Ice Festival Terracotta Warriors… Pandas! My chef husband and I just came back from an amazing month in China- a 40+ year dream of Read more…