Sunday, September 30, 2007

Dragon Boat Race

It's a bit strange right? Dragon Boat Race during mid-autumn festival. Haha. I didn't really notice that till someone asked me. But oh well, it was VERY fun! Durham chinese school team won both the juniors and adults - FIRST PLACE!

The lucky red boat! warming up... haha, everyone 's not there yet
The cute lion.LOOK! They are the first all the time!The juniorsthe fit coachthe mayor of newcastleWeEeeee... 2 trophies! My A level chinese teacher ^^ happy to have met her there too.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Wuhan - Food Edition

My hometown. What else can I say! LOVE WUHAN SO MUCH!
Here's some of my favourite wuhan food photos:
First of all my grandma's beads, she made all theseand these are just part of her collection! Made me some lovely little bags as well. So pretty.
My favourites! Grandma's cooking, BEST IN THE WORLD!we even made soya bean milk every morning! Freah and healthy! Yingying JJ 's mum is such a good cook too! The bottom left table of food is when we went to her house for lunch. YUMMY!

my favourite snacks in wuhan. The cake, xiao mianbao (3pm everyday, freshly baked in the uni), the yogurt in wuhan is so yummy too!

breakfast, most important meal of the day in wuhan - 过早 - 户部巷

Some of my favourite dishes, VERY SPICY!
My cute little cousin 多多,妹妹,爷爷和小侄子(sister, granddad, baby nephew)

TianTian brought me to my favourite place to eat all these shells! YUMMY!

Lots of people invited my family for huge meals in China, this is one of them. Look the amount of food! And you know what, all of them are so tasty!

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Some lovely memories

Happy Mid-autumn Festival everyone! 祝大家中秋节快乐!

Let me do some rewinding back to my fantastic summer in China.

I was at this most amazing summer camp, being chosen to be one of the most talented Chinese students in the UK, 28 of us, haha, I got my place and enjoyed touring around IN STYLE! 4 star hotels, banquets with the Beijing and Shanghai Mayors, dumpling banquet in Xi An. OMG, where do I begin to describe those fantastic experiences. It was like Queens and Kings when we went to places. Hotels even welcomed us on their digital notice boards. We were THAT important. Wherever we went people would stare at us. Wearing the same T-shirts really helps us to stand out. Haha. The girls on this trip were all very pretty. So some Chinese people even asked whether this was a Beauty Contest tour. LOL. It felt so different to get that much attention wherever we went.

Well, I really can’t talk too much about the trip here. Cause I could go on and on about the actual performances and things we saw and did. If you ever get a chance to talk to me in person, I’ll tell you all about it! For now, I want to post some photos I took in Dalian and Beijing with my family. Basically, we went to these two places at the end of our China trip. Dalian is very famous for it’s seafood and handsome guys! I’m sure to recommend this beautiful and romantic city to all the girls out there. Also I was lucky enough to catch Dalian’s fashion week! All the models and clothes were amazing! The fashion atmosphere is Dalian was immense.

Please enjoy! ^^
Airport and night view of the city

Dalian Jail - Where the Japanese used to capture innocent chinese farmers. Horrible place!


A real skeleton (another hero)- basically they mean that if you don't kneel down to me when you're alive then you have to kneel down to me when you're dead, in that wooden container .The Dalian Ocean Park (personally , I thought it was rubbish, guess I've been to too many parks. Hong Kong Ocean Park is way better.)
MermaidsHoroscopes - Here's mine and the other one is Richard's

You have to look at the bottom right hand photo. Those amazing apartments! I'm going to get one of them when I get rich! ^^And guess the actual names for them - National Treasure 国宝大厦! hahaIt looks like Disney Land, but this pink castle is in Da Lian o!!!
So cute !!!!!!In Beijing...

The Great Wall Of China
Yummy Peking Duck
Beijing Zoo - look at those lazy animals!
Joy's House
The delicious Red Restaurant, very red inside! Felt just like celebrating Chinese New Year.

Look at that BBQ Lamb stick, so tasty!Huge Moon Cake behind Angie
Huge water melon