Travel Notes | Fragments of Guangzhou & Shunde (2)

Didi was going back to Guangzhou for school. I woke up in the morning and had nothing to do, so I decided to buy breakfast. There was a Brothers and Sisters Cooking Porridge nearby, which had very high ratings. I ordered pork liver and lean meat porridge, egg rolls and fried dough sticks. The pork liver is super tender, the porridge is so soft and glutinous that you can't see the complete rice grains, and the fried dough sticks are delicious soaked in the porridge. Forgot to take a picture.

I met several flower stalls and flower shops on the road and bought a pink rose, which was still open on the day we left Shunde. He's just a master at creating romance.

In the afternoon, I hung up my camera and went out to sweep the streets. Logically speaking, I should import the photos into my computer, randomly adjust various parameters in Lr, and then export them. But I was too lazy, so I uploaded it to my phone and started using the beauty software to take photos, and found that it actually looked pretty good.

For dinner, I chose my private kitchen , which is the number one private kitchen in Daliang District. This restaurant is more like a private kitchen than a private kitchen. The store is not big. When I went there, the owner and his family were having dinner. There was only one person, so I didn’t dare to order more, so I ordered Steamed Shankeng Pork with Salted Ginger Sauce and Baked Squab Pigeon with Sand and Ginger . The uncle who was cooking asked me while putting on his apron, "The fish weighs more than two kilograms. You can't finish it by yourself. Do you really want it?" I feel so helpless, uncle, you don’t know my appetite.

The meat of the grass carp is very tender and delicious when dipped in the soup. The ginger flavor is not strong, but it is indispensable. I thought I had unlocked a new species, but after checking, I found out that grass carp is grass carp. How on earth do you make grass carp so delicious? The baked squab is also excellent. The skin is crispy and the meat is tender. The bones are crispy and tasty but not salty. Lily was soaked in tea, and one person ate a pigeon, a fish, and a bowl of rice. Uncle, you don’t know my appetite.

It rained on the way back, and there have been scattered light rains in Shunde these days. Shunde is a district in Foshan. Walking on the street, it looks very much like a third-tier city. There are Mixue Bingcheng, Wallace and Shaxian snacks, as well as Northeastern handmade dumplings and Lanzhou ramen. It will make people doubt the "World Food Capital" A famous title. But who would have thought that such delicious steamed fish and baked pigeons would be found in an inconspicuous shop on the roadside. The front door sign is still the simplest aluminum-plastic plate with white letters on a black background.

When I woke up at noon, it was still raining lightly outside, so I took a stroll to Huagai Luzhi Street to eat beef offal. This restaurant Ximei Niuza is considered an Internet celebrity on the pedestrian street. The queues are terrible during holidays. Fortunately, it’s a working day and it’s raining. I ordered a small portion of beef offal for 30 yuan, which included beef bladder, tripe, intestines, radish and tofu dip, with some sweet and spicy sauce. The taste is slightly different from the beef offal I had before. It seems to have some Chinese medicinal flavor or some strange spice flavor. It is quite delicious. However, the price does have some internet celebrity premiums.

Keep walking to eat double skin milk! The destination is Jinbang Street , walking through the alleys with an umbrella.

I met a Second Sister's Private House Zongzi on the road. There was a boy sitting on a small stool fishing for Zongzi. I bought a Egg Yolk Fragrant Meat Zongzi. The ingredients include pork belly and duck egg yolk. , mung beans, red beans, eyebrow beans and peanuts, my mouth started to water, and I ate them with double skin milk for a while. "Roasted pork rice dumplings~ Lend me your hand and please don't think too much~ I won't say it out loud when I love you, I just cheer you up~ I only like your smile, so don't think too much~ I'm afraid you will feel bad after being a lover for a day Not enough." I was so happy that I hummed a song softly.

There are many Shuangpi Dairy shops named "Jinbang" hidden in Jinbang Street. I chose the one Old Neighbor Shuangpi Dairy which has the highest public rating. I ordered a cold double skin milk and a ginger milk. The aunt asked if I wanted more or less ginger juice for Jiang Bang Nai. I said for Jiang Bang Nai, of course I want more ginger.

Double skin milk, in my ordinary twenty years of life, this is the most delicious double skin milk I have ever tasted! It is made of buffalo milk, with a thick layer of milk skin on it, which is smooth and tender. It has a great milky flavor and has its own sweetness without being greasy at all. Ginger hits milk, when milk meets ginger, it will solidify at the right temperature (about 70 degrees), which is closer to a liquid than double skin milk. It is very special. The more ginger juice makes it more spicy, Shasshaha. Egg yolk-flavored meat rice dumplings, so fragrant! The egg yolk is rusty and still dripping with oil. A mouthful of double-skinned milk, a mouthful of healing roasted pork rice dumplings, a mouthful of ginger milk, it's drizzling, very cool, this is the meaning of happiness.

Keep walking. I passed by a large video store , which is available in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Europe and the United States. I bought a film by Karen Mok and a film by Jay Chou. After paying the bill, I realized that I didn’t have a Blu-ray player, so I spread my hands.

I went to Xun Art Museum , but there was an event on Tuesday afternoon and the entire museum was closed. I had to go to the nearby Overseas Chinese Town , which actually had some small exhibitions. The Chinese Young Architects Recommendation Exhibition has a great name, but in fact there are only 5 works, which are too abstract and difficult to understand. Continue to Favor: Leslie Cheung’s Memory Special Exhibition should be an exhibition spontaneously planned by fans, with introductions to Leslie Cheung’s records and movies. Qingyun Literary Society Exhibition Qingyun Literary Society is a local literary society in Shunde established in the Qing Dynasty. In the early days, it was mainly responsible for offering sacrifices to promote cultural heritage. Later, it became a public welfare organization that donated funds to students and revitalized local culture and education.

Didi is finally back, let’s go have dinner together! We chose Hesheng Farm , which ranks number one for yusheng, which is a bit far from the city. I ordered four fish dishes, steamed oysters with garlic paste, and fish soup with bitter gourd. There are four kinds of fish to eat, including fish raw, cold fish skin, fish fillet porridge and steamed fish bones with black bean sauce. Sashimi, as thin as cicada wings, with very soft thorns, you can swallow it directly. The condiments include shredded garlic, shredded ginger, shredded green onion, shredded onion, shredded taro, lemon leaves and shredded carrots. , mustard, pickled garlic slices and shredded ginger, spicy, sour and spicy. Cold fish skinVery crispy, with a hint of sweet and sour flavor and sesame oil flavor. Fish fillet porridge, my favorite, looks ordinary, but the smell of rice and fish mixed together is really soothing. Steamed fish bones with black bean sauce Didi’s favorite. The meat is tender and the black bean sauce is rich in flavor. There are only big fish bones and no small spines. Steamed Oysters with Garlic Sauce , normal quality, only one yuan per dish according to Dianping. Bitter melon fish soup Fish soup is a famous dish in Shunde. Slightly fry the bighead carp, remove the bones and get the meat. Stew the fungus shreds, melon shreds, mushroom shreds and tangerine peel shreds into a soup. Put it in the pot. Sprinkle with terminalia seeds, chopped green onion and raw ground pepper. Different restaurants make fish soup in different ways. This one uses bitter melon, which is slightly bitter in the mouth, but has a sweet aftertaste and a refreshing sweetness, which is worth savoring.

We were so full that we walked back to the B&B from the farm, took a shower, and lay down.

Get up at noon and take a taxi to Ronggui to eat claypot rice. Daliang and Ronggui are both streets under the jurisdiction of Shunde. Daliang is the seat of the Shunde District Government. We have been active around here before, but Ronggui Street also hides a lot of old-fashioned delicacies. Red Star Guangfa Claypot Rice is also the number one claypot restaurant in Shunde. When I went there, the upper and lower floors were already full, so we had to share tables. I ordered claypot rice with beef and eggs, claypot rice with double eel and white eel, fried eggs with five fillets and lettuce in soup.

Claypot rice with beef and eggs , the eggs are runny, the beef has a peppery flavor and is very tender, the rice has distinct grains and is very fragrant when chewed carefully. Clay eel rice with rice and white eel, tastes good but a bit salty. Five-leaf fried eggs , heavy oil and high fire, sour and fragrant, with sour ginger and sour mustard on top, with fluffy edges and large pieces of tender eggs in the middle. Menghui Guo Bao Pork. Served with lettuce in soup, the first plate of green vegetables in Shunde, CD.

After eating, take a walk. However, the rain got heavier and heavier, so we took shelter from the rain in a nearby shopping mall. After shopping for a while, the rain subsided and we set off to Fisherman's Wharf . We walked around Fisherman's Wharf for a while and took a few photos. The rain became heavier again, so we hid in the 711 and waited for Didi before returning to Daliang.

In the evening, I went to Renxin Old Shop to eat Double Skin Milk, and ordered Peach Gum Double Skin Milk and Black Glutinous Rice Double Skin Milk. Compared with Jinbang Double Skin Milk, Renxin Laopu’s Double Skin Milk is sweeter. The peach gum and black glutinous rice both taste great.

When I go back in the evening, I have to write feedback on my excellent homework, and prepare to stay up all night. In order to be prepared to stay up late, I put on my slippers and go to have a late night snack at twelve o'clock. A small stall, open from 7pm to 2am, ordered pork liver porridge, taro cake, and fried snail meat with perilla . The pork liver is still very tender, the taro cake is salty, fried and fragrant, and the perilla flavor is strong. I sat on a small table by the roadside and used toothpicks to pick out the snail meat bit by bit. I felt that in my previous life, I should have been a middle-aged gourmet eating braised pork rice as if no one was around. The stall was very lively. There were two local men drinking beer. They spoke in dialects that I couldn’t understand. A foreign guy came over to pay. They shouted “Nice to meet you” to him. The guy went over to shake hands with them and said “Nice to meet.” You", you have such a good figure, Sihasha. There was an old man in police uniform riding an electric bike over to buy fried noodles. He might have just finished his shift. A guy with red plaid was sending a voice message on WeChat, "What do you want?" On the other side was a female voice. I can't remember what he said, but it was very sweet anyway.

Get up at noon and go to Shunde Family for morning tea. The lobby is very lively, with many old people having morning tea and chatting. I ordered tangerine peel Pu'er for tea, and ordered Fengcheng Fried Milk, Shrimp Dumplings, Steamed Beef Tripe with Golden Sauce, Zhongshan Salted Tea Fruit, Almond Taro Rolls, Southern Milk Salted Pancakes, Black Bean Peanut Thin Pancakes, and Bamboo Charcoal Peach Gum Egg Tarts. , Shrimp and Red Rice Sausage. The money tripe, taro rolls, red rice sausage and shrimp dumplings are all of normal quality, and the shrimp dumplings are full of ingredients. Salted tea fruit is glutinous rice wrapped in banana leaves, filled with salty mushrooms and peanuts. The texture of the thin noodles is very special. The outer skin is crispy and hard, and the inside is soft and sticky. It is especially fragrant when paired with white sugar and peanuts. The egg tart is not an ordinary butter egg, but made of buffalo milk, which is very soft and smooth. Fengcheng Fried Milk is also one of Shunde's famous dishes. It is mixed with egg white and fresh buffalo milk, added with shrimps and sausage pellets, and stir-fried with peanut oil. The milk is fragrant, softened and salty.

After eating and drinking, we set off to and the art museum . He Art Museum is located in Beijiao (a town in Shunde), and you can see the Midea headquarters building opposite. The most worthwhile experience besides the food. The He Art Museum was designed by Tadao Ando and will be open to the public on a trial basis from October 1, 2020. The entrance is called the path of water, skylight, water shadow, and natural tree. The entire building is inspired by the Pantheon. "The circle is the starting point of the universe" and "the sky is round and the place is round, exploring an art form unique to the Lingnan region."

The interior is the familiar Tadao Ando exposed concrete, and the unique double spiral staircase.

The exhibition title is "Transcendence: The Artistic Life of Tadao Ando" . It is a review of Tadao Ando's life. It is divided into three chapters: "Beyond Art", "Beyond Light" and "Beyond Ando". ". "Beyond Art" displays the works of ten masters who have profoundly influenced their creations, including Picasso, Esworth Kelly, Hiroshi Sugimoto, etc. "Beyond Light" explores the trajectory of Ando's artistic creation using light, including manuscripts and images created after embarking on a European exploration trip influenced by Le Corbusier. The final chapter "Beyond Ando" presents Ando's works created in different media such as wood, glass, photography, etc., and reproduces his geo-art masterpiece Chichu Museum of Art.

There are so many photos that I don’t want to sort them out. I hope to go to Japan to take pictures of architecture in my lifetime.

Check-in photo

Manuscripts of the Langchamp Church

Stick with Didi

(There is something wrong with the camera settings, I took the photo of pljj like this in the hope that I won’t get slapped

In the evening, take a taxi to Chencun to eat Chencun noodles. Yes, you have to go to the birthplace to eat delicious food! I went to Huang Danji Main Store , and the menu was still a trial for difficulty in choosing. Steamed Rice Noodles, Fried Rice Noodles, Soup Noodles, and Creative Rice Noodles filled the entire surface. Unfortunately, we only had two stomachs, so we chose One portion of Danji’s special cold Chencun noodles, one portion of Steamed Chencun noodles with wild mushroom and chicken fillet, Crispy tofu, Cold fish skin and fried fresh milk . Chencun noodles are indeed "thin, refreshing, soft and slippery". Mixed noodles and steamed noodles have different tastes. Mixed noodles are more elastic and refreshing, while steamed noodles are waxier and smoother.

Get up at noon and set off to Ronggui to eat Songji. Songji is famous for its Qingshui hot pot. It is a Black Pearl restaurant and its service attitude is very old-style Black Pearl (herein it is used in a derogatory sense). Ordered Pork and Beef Combination (pork shank, pork liver, pork noodles, pork teeth, beef jerky, beef shank pit, yellow beef), hand-baked pork balls, gallinaceous mushrooms and mulberry leaves . The water is poured into the stove without us having to do anything. The waitress will help with the cooking. Although she ignores us, she controls the time very accurately. The meat is neither raw nor old. It seems that dried tangerine peel or other spices are added to the pork balls, which gives it a very special taste. Pork and beef were put into the pot together. There were leeks and carrots at the bottom of the pot, and they were fished out together. Unfortunately, we couldn't tell the types of meat, so we had to eat them whole. Some were tough, some were smooth and tender, and they were dipped in soy sauce and shredded ginger. , very unique, the original taste of food. We were not full and were about to order more, but the waitress said expressionlessly, "The kitchen is off duty and we can't order anymore." We had no choice but to pay the bill and leave.

At 4:30 in the afternoon, I took the bus back to Guangzhou. With two hours left, I found a nearby sweet shop to eat sweet water. The name was Mother Culture Sweet Shop . I don’t know whether mother is an adjective or a noun. I ordered hand-ground almond walnut paste, kelp and mung bean soup, pumpkin tart and dorayaki . It was my first time to eat kelp and mung bean soup. I originally thought it was a dark dish, but I didn't expect it to be surprisingly delicious. The kelp is not fishy and is very refreshing.

I took the bus back to Guangzhou. The station was very primitive. All reminders to get to the station and transfer were manually shouted. There was an old-fashioned large ceiling fan. It was like traveling back to an era without the Internet and artificial intelligence (although I have no impression of this era).

The journey time was 1-2 hours, and there was a traffic jam. It took more than three hours to get to Guangzhou Tianhe Passenger Terminal. I remembered that today is April 30th, and I was forced to feel the enthusiasm of the May Day holiday.

I have been living in Baiyun District for the past two days and experienced the life of a couch surfer. The hostess has eight cats and one dog. The dog is a big golden retriever and very well-behaved. I didn't recognize all the eight cats until the day they left. There was a beautiful stuffed doll called "Soft Girl" who was in estrus and always spread out in a cat cake on the floor; a black and white cat who was very thin and could open a balcony by himself. The door likes to use my bed as a transit point to fly around; one named "Pomegranate" tried to steal my pineapple buns on the first day, and then stayed next to the pillow to sleep with me every night. It was a coward. Although I slept less than five hours a day on average these two days due to mosquitoes, birdsong, dog smell and hives, I was still very happy.

The cowardly pomegranate sister

I had nothing to do in the morning, so I walked for two hours along Guangzhou Avenue to pick up Fu Pang at Guangzhou Station, but I still didn’t make it in time, so I took a taxi for the second half. I wanted to eat some Dude, but I heard that the waiting list was 90 tables, so I gave up and went to eat Happy Lamb next door.

In the afternoon, I watched "Rhinoceros in Love" at Friendship Theater and almost fell asleep. I can't understand it. It's like I'm watching a modern version of Qiong Yao's drama. I keep questioning in my heart, why bother? Why do I love it so much?

After watching the drama, I walked out in a daze and decided to go for a walk in the nearby Liuhua Lake Park. Fu Fat said that there was a very luxurious hotel there, but it closed down in 2017. I checked and found that the name is "Shuhong Pavilion". This building is still idle and it is said that it will be turned into a museum.

Walk out from the park and go to Dian Dude for dinner. There are new products in Diantude for spring. I ordered asparagus rolled spring cakes, Wuyang crispy fish cakes, mango-filled coconut milk cakes, Jinsha sea shrimps and red rice sausages and farm millet cakes. I don’t know why I really want to eat millet cakes. Maybe it’s because I miss Xueyi’s corn cakes. After a quick bite, Fu Pang was about to take the bus back to Shenzhen, so I took him to the subway station. I didn’t know when we could meet next time.

After going to Nanjing West Road on November 1st to experience the armed police pulling a human wall, I am planning to go to Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street on May 1st to join in the fun. It was indeed very lively and crowded, but it was not so crowded that I walked around. I was very happy to watch people while walking. I just don’t understand why there are long lines in Guangzhou to buy Changsha stinky tofu and grilled squid. I passed by a Zhongshuge . In the spirit of self-criticism, maybe it was my own fault that I couldn't understand "Rhinoceros in Love" today, so I bought a copy of "Chao Sao" by Yukio Mishima to supplement it. Love homework.

I wanted to drink, so I found a good bar in Yong'anfang nearby. I navigated there and searched for it for ten minutes but couldn't find it. I heard loud cheers and walked over to find that it was coming from a "Dayi Tea Garden". It was fans watching the CBA finals, Dongguan Dayi vs. Liaoning Bengang. It turned out that they had walked to the base camp. Sneaking in, he sat on the ground and started watching the game. The atmosphere was very strong. The eldest nephew sent the sideline ball to Wilms. Everyone laughed at the replay for as long as the whipping was played. In overtime, when the Guangdong team was defending, everyone laughed. They will shout "Defense-Defense-Defense" in unison, and the Liaoning team will shout "Airball-Airball-Airball" when making free throws. Had a passionate night.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, I took the night bus No. 95 back to the B&B. When I passed by Tonghe Station, almost everyone got off the bus. I was the only one left, and I didn't get off until Caokeng Station. Guangzhou's public transportation is very developed. I thought I would have to take a taxi home at this late hour, but I didn't expect that three or four night buses were still running.

There was nothing to talk about. I woke up in the morning and cooked a bowl of pig's trotters noodles downstairs, packed my luggage and headed to the airport, heading back to the food desert of Daidian.

There are almost 9,000 words in my travel notes. There are many people in Guangzhou, especially the elderly and children. However, because of the large number of people, even a small shop is full of life, and my anthropophobia seems to be lessened (while walking on the road) It will be very uncomfortable when you find someone approaching from the other side). The locals have a nice accent, with a soft ending, as if they are talking to a child. Shunde loves ginger. Ginger juice is used to wash hair, soak feet, and add some ginger to every dish. I also like to use tangerine peel, perilla and pomelo peel in dishes. I’m so hungry, I don’t want to write the ending, so let’s just end it like this!