HAPPY HOMEMAKER HELP YOU!
Posts tagged as:
One evening, Hubby came home and asked me, “Would you like to spend the weekend in Shanghai?” That’s my husband…he’ll surprise you with questions like this! Doing some quick mental planning, I asked how long we’d be there – about 5 days. I said, “Let’s go!”
Luckily, there are loads of cheap flights for domestic travel [...]
{ 4 comments }
Known as “Lau Zhi Qing” among the Chinese or Cultural Revolution restaurant among the non-Chinese speaking, this franchise has to be one of the coolest themed restaurants I’ve ever been to.
The restaurant’s theme is based on the more positive aspect of the Cultural Revolution i.e. Mao Zedong’s decree for all youths (especially undergraduates) to be [...]
{ 0 comments }
Since one of our visitors is diabetic, another has high blood pressure and another has high cholesterol levels, we decided to check out this POPULAR steamboat or hot pot (huo guo) restaurant.
It’s so popular during lunch and dinner (especially for autumn and winter) that chairs are lined up outside the restaurant for nearly 20 people. [...]
{ 7 comments }
I’d received a lunch invitation from the expat community but since I can only handle small meals now, I didn’t join in the Mexican food buffet. Instead, we went there for my birthday lunch
Coyote Restaurant was easy to find as it’s at a cosy corner opposite Yuandang Lake. There was also a map [...]
{ 4 comments }
“One man’s meat is another man’s poison”
Visitors who have visited mainland China tend to come back with tales of having to scoop out inches of oil or lard off their main dishes or drowning EXTREMELY salty pieces of meat, fish or vegetables with lots of soup before attempting to eat them.
Or…these visitors end up eating [...]
{ 8 comments }
When we visited Beijing last year, we were lucky enough to try TWO types of Peking duck – one at the famous Quan Ju De restaurant on Wangfuqing Street and another at the Olympic Green.
QUAN JU DE RESTAURANT
Four hungry families (with 6 kids) trudged down Wangfuqing Street and trooped into this crowded restaurant tucked away [...]
{ 2 comments }
This was the first lunch I had with my badminton-playing Mothers group (Chinese, Hongkies, Taiwanese, Malaysians and Singaporeans) and boy, was it fun! We went to this restaurant out of chance because the one we wanted to go to went out of business
Since there are almost 20 of us, we had to look [...]
{ 2 comments }
