Round Door restaurant

Went to a nice place yesterday, it’s called the Round Door. It’s what’s called a dry-noodle restaurant. You order a bowl of noodles that has satay sauce and meat on it, and soup for the side (6, 8 or 10rmb’s worth, more money m...

Dansuao - Yen’s hot spring

On Monday I went to my friend Yen’s hot spring resort, actually it’s not his, it’s his friend’s, but hey whatever.  It’s called Dansuao Hotspring Resort and it’s in the countryside between Shantou, Chaozhou and...

ZhongXin, snacks & Chaozhou

General advice from four of my wonderful daytime students:
1.Shantou has a lot of snacks.
They are very delicious. If the person who came to Shantou never tried the snacks, that would be a pity! In Shantou, there are a lot of food streets....

Ice cream and Walmart

Last night I went for ice cream in Shantou - wow, ice cream in Shantou, they don’t even have fresh milk here. Well, it was with a group of mostly foreigners so the standards were quite high, and it didn’t really match up, but the two scoo...