We gather at Hotel lobby at around 10.30am before we off to 南市食品街in Tianjin.
19 of us, who first time came to Tianjin went to explore Tianjin without Mr. Tan and Mr. Chua’s accompany. We took bus 829 at the busstop new our hotel, it tooks about 40 minutes.
(The sign board that shows the bus fare)
(Information board on the bus)
The buses in China were totally different from the buses in Singapore. Although there are many people squeeze into the bus, but still, we can balanced ourselves. BUT, at Tianjin, it was very difficult to stand still, very hard to balance yourself even though you were holding the pole or the seats. Apart from that, I realized that the bus driver were all very impatient. They don’t really wait for the passengers to get into bus before they drive off the bus. This is totally different from Singapore. One of the china students told me that there was an old lady wanted to alight but because of the action was too slow, the driver just drove away and caused the old lady fall on the steps. The possibility of this incident happening in Singapore is very LOW. That was an experience that I gained when taking buses in Tianjin.
We sent a text to Wee Hong’s buddy, 杨芮 and she came to find us. We tried many foods in Tianjin, we ate the 麻花. That taste of麻花 is different from Singapore, but still nice. Besides, we tried others famous food too. We walked while we were eating, and we were walking while we were eating and drinking. We saw a man is doing something with the 麦芽糖. He is so called “Candy Man”. I wanted to interview him for the IS homework, but too bad, he doesn’t have time and he said he can’t understand what am I talking. I think I must learn a little bit of Tianjin people’s slang throughout this few weeks.
(Photos of Variety of food at the food street)
(Photos of the shop owner were drawing Thir and Eugene )
We went to the 古文化街. That was the very first time I saw people drawing other’s portrait right in front of me. The feeling was interesting. We took around half an hour to wait for him to draw about 8 faces. When we want to walk to another side, Gary saw a watch, they wanted to buy but the prices were too high, they started to bargain. In the end, their mission succeeds. Gary, Eugene, Jonathan, weehong and Dean bought new watch at a reasonable price ^^
(Photos taken at gu wen hua jie)
The 古文化街 have a lot of small little cute things, I bought something for my mum too. (:
After shopping, we went to PIZZAHUT for dinner! 20 of us went into PIZZAHUT and everyone is looking at us. Is there any special on our face? I realized there were some differences between china’s PIZZAHUT and Singapore’s PIZZAHUT. There is alcoholic drink in the menu and they got no chili cause. They even run out of flour when we wanted to order large pizza. That sounds a bit wrong, but… Besides, the PIZZAHUT in Tianjin don’t have the delivery service! OH NO~~!!After dinner, some of them went to Carfour to buy something, after that we took bus and went back to hotel. Once again, WE (20 PEOPLE) MANAGE TO SQUEEZE INTO THE BUS TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME.!!
ANYWAY, today was quite fun! I’ve learnt something and have fun together.
I enjoy every moment that I spent with you guys.
Weather is getting cold, wear more!
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