Food Trip in Nanjing: The Breakfast at the Hotel

Like I’ve said in one of my previous post, I was really hoping to try any exotic Chinese cuisines, like, the turtles, snakes, frogs, etc. Sadly, our one week stay never allowed us to have any unless, if paid using our own pocket money, we could have tried, but thinking it will be expensive made us backed off. Nevertheless, trying their local foods that are a little different in terms of taste, appearance and the method of cooking compare to Filipino cuisine, was a one worth of experience.

I already shared the first meal we had in Nanjing. In this post were the food served at Phoenix Hotel.

Day 1

The breakfast at the hotel is served starting 7AM, but since we have to leave the hotel at 7AM to catch the company bus going to Jiangning District, Nanjing, we asked the hotel to open the breakfast area for use by 6AM and have whatever is available.  

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Few Hours in Fuzimiao, Nanjing China

Per info from other colleagues who have been in Nanjing for training also, the training venue is about 1 hour ride by bus from the hotel we lived in. That means we don’t have time to explore the city and we do not know yet if there will be a day tour allocated for us before heading back home.

Might as well make use of our free hours and see the Confucius Temple at Fuzimiao, with Sir Nards as our guide, because it was his second time in Nanjing. Our plan was to take the subway from Xinmifanmalu to Sanshanjie station, then by foot going to the temple.

Following the downloaded map, we took another walk of the day to the nearby Nanjing Metro Subway Station the Xinmofanmalu, which was about 20 to 30 minute medium to fast paces from the hotel.

  

Luckily, the ticket counter at the subway station has an English translation. A little click here and there viola, we already have our tickets in the form of plastic coins.  

The printed English translations within the Metro subway made it a tourist friendly transport option.

 

Blue Monday

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First Meal in Nanjing, China + Some Scenes

After a long 4hours+ following the national highway from Shanghai, we arrived at the Nanjing, Jiangsu at 1:30PM. The guide brought us to the hotel to check-in, left our things and went out to take our lunch. A super late lunch at a local restaurant about 10 minutes walk from the hotel.

The boys walking ahead of us, they sure were very hungry.

The Local Restuarant. I do not how to read the characters.

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From Shanghai on our way to Nanjing

A representative from the company/supplier in-charge of the project came to fetch us at Shanghai International Airport, and took us to Nanjing, Jiangsu where the training venue was.

As a first timer in a foreign land sightseeing, picture taking are always present. I positioned myself at the window side of the van for that purpose.

Sadly, I chose not to bring my DSLR with me because I felt that it will be too heavy for me to carry around, which honestly I regretted. Nothing beats the quality of the pictures taken from a DSLR especially from a moving vehicle.

Anyway, since I only have with me my Samsung Smart Camera WB250F + my Samsung Smartphone (sorry for emphasizing the brand, I'm a Samsung avid user, I guess) so let's just enjoy the pictures taken from these gadgets.

To start.. these are photos of Pudong Shanghai International Airport taken from a distance. A wide angle lens is badly needed to be able to take a better view of the one of the sophisticated airport in the world.

 

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Touchdown Pudong International Airport

On March 30, 2014 4:55AM together with 9 colleagues we took off NAIA International Airport on board China Eastern to Shanghai. After a smooth 3 hours and 20 minutes above the ground, flight MU212 landed at Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 8:15AM.

Even with only few hours of sleep (we checked out from the hotel in Manila and went to the airport at 2AM) I tried my best to keep myself awake when the plane landed. Seeing the first foreign land I ever went to in my whole 36 years matters to me most than sleep that time.

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Busy Airport + The Runway Viewed from Above

The last time I updated this blog was in February. Imagine! I myself can't believe I have neglected this blog for 2 long months. What's up with me? All I can think of is the same old reason, I was too busy with my day job the past months and I'm sure even in the coming months, after all it's our bread and butter. Anyway, I will not promise much but I'll try my very best to share some of the photos taken within my perspective. After all this blog is all about photos of life... :-)

So to restart the journey.. Here's a photo of busy airport ground in Laguindingan Airport, Misamis Oriental, another plane has landed and passengers on board are starting to deplane.

Another one was taken above the ground wherein you can see the runway strip of Laguindingan Airport. A newly built airport that operated last year.

 

A nice choice of photos to be shared for Blue Monday and Monday Mellow Yellows.

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Framed Tower

One early Sunday morning we attended mass at the chapel in the subdivision. We stayed and listened the gospel outside the because the little boy kept on running around.

I looked up and appreciated the blue clear sky of the early morning. Looking great as a background of the towering transmitter framed by the green tree leaves.

Truly a one beautiful Sunday with the Lord.

Taken using my Samsung S2 Smartphone for Thursday Challenge and  SkyWatch Friday

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