4 Days 4 Places

I don’t even remember the last time I blogged.
It’s probably months ago.

Anyway, here’s some photos of my trip I took over the Chinese National Day holiday.

Travelled from Dong Guan where I am up North.
Managed to visit these Shanwei, Shantou, Chaozhou and Xiamen.
Took about 4 days to visit all these places.

Between Shantou and Chaozhou, one of these has got to be my ancestral hometown.
Cos their dialect is very similar to the Teochew that we speak in Singapore.
But I’m not sure which one though.

Anyway, first stop - Shanwei.
Nothing very interesting about the place though.

Only visited a temple.


And there were some school children about.

Shanwei was pretty boring so it was off to Shantou next.
Along the way took a detour to visit this a seaside town.

Seaside town with fishing boats.

Drying salted fish along the roadside.
Amazing amount of flies buzzing around these.
Stank like anything.
I’m not eating Xian Yu Chao Fan for a long time yet.

Had dinner at Pizza Hut in Shantou.
The waitress was speaking Teochew.
Or rather their Shantou dialect that is like what we term as Teochew.
It was pretty interesting and quite a novelty!!

After dinner it was off to Chaozhou.
Strictly speaking, I think Chaozhou is the actual Teochew.
Anyone care to enlighten me on this?

Hotel room in Chaozhou.
Quite cheap compared to the rates I paid for the other nights.


Guess what this fella’s frying?


Char Kway!! That’s brunch!!

Afternoon, headed towards Fujian Province Xiamen town.
Reached the port of Xiamen around 6 in the evening.
Contemplated visiting Taiwan which was just a boat + plane ride away.
But expensive…

Nothing very exciting to see in Xiamen.
Or rather, didn’t feel like seeing much cos it was so crowded.

Just visited a wax museum where they had a figure of Hitler!

Interesting point in Xiamen was when I heard someone curse KNN!!
From Teochew to Hokkien.
Heh Heh…

Finding Xiamen boring, I headed back to Shantou.
Where I decided to be extravagant and stay in a 5 star hotel!!
Meritus Shantou!!

That’s where I managed to get online to MSN for a while.
Been like ages too since I last went online.

Anyway, next day had brunch in Shantou.

Orh Lwah!!


Fishball soup!!
So now we know where all these dishes came from, no?

Anyway after brunch it was back to Dong Guan.
Thereby ending a very exciting 4 day 4 places trip!