There are a couple of decent dimsum places in Shantou, even though it isn’t a local speciality.  There are two that I know of, and both are restaurants in expensive hotels.  The first is - I’ve forgotten the English name - 海景酒店 ...

Maggie Ad posted on June 30th, 2006 under: Eating in ST | Tag: Haibin Road, Jinsha Road, Restaurant | 4 Comments »

I’m going to take a picture of one of the little creatures that live on the trees at this time of year, if I can. They’re like cockroaches but they live in trees and they’re bark colour and don’t crawl/fly into your house. So...

Maggie Ad posted on June 28th, 2006 under: Living in ST | Tag: animal | 1 Comment »

Air raid sirens got tested on Wednesday! Apparently it was in the paper, which I didn’t read. It’s a bit spooky hearing them in real life. They test them every year. Makes me wonder why they need to keep them working… I was in class ...

Maggie Ad posted on June 23rd, 2006 under: Living in ST | Tag: city, culture | 5 Comments »

After bbq we head straight on for freshly squeezed fruit juice on Zhongshan Lu, also pretty famous due to its quality.  The fruit juices around Walmart are very average, but the this was good stuff.  Sorry, I can’t pinpoint it, it was just sho...

Maggie Ad posted on June 19th, 2006 under: Eating in ST | Tag: fruit, Restaurant, Zhongshan Road | 1 Comment »