Guangzhou（广州） is a typical modern city. Fortunately, There are still many country scenes you can find at suburb.
Nansha（南沙)， which locates at the south of Guangzhou, is one of such places to meet old things like small fruit market on water.

Nansha has a very famous food street named ShiJi YanZhou River Food Street(石基雁洲河鲜食街). Many people love it’s fresh and cheap river food, So there are always many people drive more than an hour to there for dinner from city center. The food street locates just beside the river. The small fruit market on water is just there waiting for these people.

It’s not a formal market, and the kinds of fruit is very limited. But it’s a kind of important way of gain money to raise the family to these women and old people. So they get up very early and back home very late.

Every time I go there, I will buy some fruits. But I can’t help all these people who have to back home with many fruits still on boat.

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DongHuaLi is a special old alley in FoShan, GuangDong(广东佛山）.   You can see some typical Guangdong style “Guo’er”（锅耳）roof  there， Which seldom can see in Guangdong now.

DongHuaLi is a very small alley which locates at FuXian Road, FoShan(佛山市福贤路). Few people know this place now, But 100 years ago, It was very famous.

FoShan is the center of commerce since Qing Dynasty. Here lived many important people of China. Many of them built their house at DongHuaLi, So DongHuaLi was a place of Vanity Fair then.

People who live there now love to tell you which house has belonged to the ex-president of SiChuan, Or which house has belonged to an old general, They are proud of these old stories.

I love the traditional GuangDong style Guo’er roof there, And the wooden carven door.

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I was invited to attend the Charity Concert for Wenchuan Earthquake Anniversary the day before last. It’s a Symphony Orchestra Concert performed Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem. The concert successfully raised 730 thousands RenMinBi for Earthquake disaster area.

The entrepreneur of concert was Lions Clubs International’s GuangZhou department. I knew many people of Lions Clubs during the days when I was a volunteer at the disaster area. They are all people with warm heart.

They choice The church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus(圣心大教堂) as the place where the concert was hold. Founded at 1863, it is the Cathedral of Guangzhou diocese. . It is also the most famous Gothic architectural in China. Since the building is entirely made of granite, it was also called “The Stone House”. It perfectly represents the combination of Chinese and Western cultures.

The church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Travel Guide:

Address: Yide Zhong Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou （广州市越秀区一德中路）

Bus: Line No.8, 40, 58, 61, 82, 194. Near the Yide Road Stop.

Admission: Free

Opening Hours: 7:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. every Sunday

You can also know more about Lions Clubs International at WikiPedia: Lions Clubs International

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Chinese tradition is somewhat complex. Several food exhibitions will open to celebrate the new spring Festival in Chengdu. Yeah, People here love tea and noshs more than flowers.
ChengDu is a city very different from GuangZhou. I love Chengdu, But I miss Guangzhou’s Spring Festival Flower Market too! There are some pictures I took last year, You can see how people enjoy flower market at GuangZhou.

There are always so many red lanterns on the street where flower market locates.

Gold fruit means “Gold Everywhere”

Looks really like “Gold fruit”, aren’t they?

Peach Blossoms are regarded as the best thing to avoid evil. If peach blossoma bloom during the Spring Festival, The year ahead will be the lucky one.

kumquat is called “jin qian ju” in Chinese, It is also the must-buy at new year flower market. It symbolize fortune.

Fish is called “Yu” in Chinese, Which means enrichment.

These young girls and the cartoon souvenirs they sell, Bring some new elements to the old traditional market.

Cosplay girls are selling colorful windmill. GuangDong people think it can bring a new lucky year.

Lion puppet? Lion is another important element of Guangdong’s new year festival, People believe it can avoid evil.

These young people are selling the “lucky cage”, which means you can gain and keep a lot of money in the coming year.

I also made a video for that, with a famous Guangdong(Cantonese) music named Bu Bu Gao, which means Steps On The Ascent:

2009 Guangzhou Spring Festival Flower Market Travel Guide

Location:

There are still ten big flower markets in year 2009, But you can also find many small flower markets here and there days just before New Spring Festival.

● Yuexiu Xihu Flower Market on Jiaoyu Road and Xihu Road;
● Yuexiu Donghu Flower Market on Dashatou 3rd Road;
● Liwan Flower Market on Liwanbei Road;
● Haizhu Flower Market on Binjiangxi Road and Baogang Road;
● Luogang Flower Market on Qingnian Road;
● Tianhe Flower Market inside Tianhe Sports Center;
● Baiyun Flower Market on Yuanjing Road of Tangjing Street;
● Huadu Flower Market inside Nanfang Flower Wholesale Trade Center;
● Huangpu Flower Market inside of Huangpu Sports Stadium;
● Panyu Flower Market on Shengtai Road;

Open Time:

● From 8:00 am to 2:00 am
● From 23 Jan,2009 to 26 Jan,2009

Know more about GuangZhou’s New Spring Festival Flower Market :

● Buy Some Good Luck At Guangzhou’s Spring Festival Flower Market
● Warm Red
● Joyful Yellow
● Magic Purple, Magic New Year
●2008 Guangzhou Spring Festival Flower Market Guide

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We work and live in skyscrapers, eat fast food, meet friends online. Are we too urban?
Maybe we need a real relaxation, even just two hours.
So, let’s go to countryside and enjoy the real country food.

I love these bamboo summerhouses

I always book this summerhouses, My doggie leo likes the little bridge to it too.

Country style mud baked chicken, It’s one of must try.

Roasted Yellow croaker

Organic vegetable

Spicy slat water chestnuts

Pumpkin pie

It’s a quite country restaurant not far away from PanYu, Guangzhou.

I was astonished to see so many bamboo here, because I don’t see any kinds of bamboo at other places in Guangzhou.

This restaurant own a small hill and a large lake. You can enjoy food in the houses which stand on the hill, Or in the bamboo summerhouse which stand on the water. So the restaurant has the name San Ding Tao Yuan (Green hill & Peach fountain).

San Ding Tao Yuan (Green hill & Peach fountain) food Guide

Address:
JiangNanChun Archways, Nan Cun Town, PanYu District, Guangzhou

How to get there:
There is no traffic there, You should drive there yourself.

Tel:
020-34761994 34761537

Note:
* It’s a pets friendly restaurant.
* All food here are not the kinds we buy at supermarket, They plant the vegetables and breed fowls themselves.
* Chicken here is very famous. If you have chance travel to Guangdong, China, Don’t miss it.

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Starting from the Ming dynasty, the village of Dengcun (邓村 in Chinese) is famous for its Sihui Paper (会纸 in Chinese), a kind of bamboo paper manufactured With the traditional approach developed by Cai Lun (蔡伦), the inventor of paper-making in early A.D.105. It is the only village in this world you can still see this 2000-year-old paper-making process.
Want a visit? Just follow me.

Dengcu, A traditional Guangdong Village

These bamboo will be cracked into sections on a wooden or stone block with a hammer or the back of an axe, three to five sections at a time.

Cracked bamboo will be spread with quicklime and put into a trough; later infuse the trough with water – soak for three months. The villagers will not pollute the environment as they seldom drain the processing water into the river, but recycle it.

Almost every household here has a paper mill.

The process of turn the thin layer of pulp into a piece of paper. I don’t know why all this kind of heavy jobs are done by women.

Airing the paper under the sunshine.

Dengcun is not faraway from Sihui, a city in the middle of Guangdong.

It’s a small village surrounded by Suijiang River and small hills. There are many bamboo grow on the hill. These bamboo is good material of Sihui paper. Bundles of fresh bamboo are piled up almost everywhere. And you can also see many pool to process these bamboo.

Sihui paper is a kind of paper which can absorb moisture very well. It is made to resemble money and burned as an offering to the dead. It is only used from the Pearl River Delta through out other Southeast Asian countries.

The villagers only make paper when they are not too busy with farming. Their techniques of make paper from bamboo mainly by hand are passed down from generation to generation.

Dengcu Paper-making Travel Guide:

How to get there:
Sihui is a county-level city of Guangdong Province, it locates in the middle of Guangdong. Dengcu is situated 10 kilometers from downtown Sihui.
There is no traffic service directly to Dengcun, You’d better visit there by self-drive.

Other tips:
There is no restaurant or big shop there, You’d better prepare all the food you need before you start off.

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Actually, GuangDong morning tea is an important part of my weekend life.
It’s typical lifestyle of GuangDong, whatever old days or modern time. It not only brings delicious Dim Sum, But also relaxs your press.

Dan Ta : classic rich Chinese egg custard in a flaky pastry shell

Fa Cai Zhu Li, It’s only offering during Chinese new year festival

Ma La Gao, together with currants

Jin Jiang Feng Zhua, made by feet of chicken

Cu Liang Yan Mai Bao, made by oatmeal

Xia Jiao, teamed shrimp dumpling wrapped in rice flour wrapper

Chang Fen: light steamed rice noodle sheets rolled with shrimp or meat, served with a light soy based sauce.

Fu Shi Xue Shan Bao, with purple taro inside

Xian Shui Jiao: deep fried glutinous rice flour dumpling stuffed with savory filling of meat and mushrooms

Shou Gong Yu Wan, Hand made fresh fish ball

Fa Cai Zhou, a kind of porridge means good luck at making momey

As a person lived long time in Chengdu, I loved drinking flower tea in the garden teahouse very much.

But traditional tea houses in GuangDong are different. They offer some snacks with tea, And called GuangDong morning tea, Though they open from about 6:00 am to midnight, serving morning tea, lunch tea, afternoon tea, dinner tea and evening tea. They call themselves tea restaurant.

Guangdong morning tea can be traced back to the Qing Dynasty. In the age of Xianfeng, There was a type of simple teashop named One Percent Shop, It was the first teashop that offered snacks together with tea. Later on, This teahouses developed into a big tea restaurants. Since then, morning tea became very popular in Guangdong, And became a part of special offshoot of Chinese food.

Guangdong’s geographic location and weather provides plentiful fresh fruit, produce and seafood. This offers good materials of tea refreshments. In Today’s tea restaurant, Tea refreshments play a more important role than tea. And this is the important standard when we consider if the tea reataurant is good enough.

Okay, If you will come to Guangzhou, Just leave me a message here, I will be glad to treat you the best GuangDong morning tea.:)

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