I Xiamen story (basic necessities articles)
Length of stay: 03/12/28-04/1/2
Clothing temperature quite pleasant, about 12-20 degrees, very little rain, almost daily sunshine. Sufficient to a sweater during the day, night and jackets also make enough of it.
Xiamen, a lot of eating snacks. User Recommended Zhongshan Road before the new Nanxuan have closed, so the road Datong Wu Adds snack bar became a last remaining places. Store getting bigger, there are many seats, but the environment and the service is the same as many other long-established, can not be demanding. Go there to eat, first at the ticket counter, and then go to each window from the collar. Very creamy on the ground, be careful wrestling. Recommended: taro package (I thought it was sweet, the results inside a dish full of meat weight), bamboo shoot frozen soil (called soil bamboo shoot, is the trouble, do not mind, you can try). The so-called "Bian Si surface", the name sounds strange, but in fact is the "Bian Shi (ie, Shanghai, ravioli, or wonton South), and noodles cooked with just. But I do not like where the" stone yards five-spice ", the outside is a layer of golden bean curd skin, which they are all thicker than the finger is also large fat, too oily.
Adds from Wu Datong Road, continue west along the numbers came about more than 100 numbers where there is a "common ground duck porridge," loved by many locals. Porridge is Aohao, you can personal preferences for an extra duck, leg of the duck, duck heart, duck wings, etc. into, you can also add peanuts and fried dough sticks, the price increases based on your content, about 5-10 yuan between the . Drink one night, when hungry, but also warm and delicious.
Hooked from the Datong Road, Zhongshan Road by crossing direction is the most famous is the yellow and peanut soup shop. There really sweet peanut soup was greasy, but very tasty indeed, it is recommended to buy some salty snack to eat together. Dining here but also in the counter on the first ticket, it is recommended you can buy more, eat that can be back. In addition, each window can have a share to take vegetables and sweet, salty taste a variety of snacks were marked name and price, very convenient. Recommended: peanut soup, Barbecued Pork Bun, a variety of small points, in fact pretty good. The door there is a special counter selling all kinds of boxed snacks, if the name of Xiamen, pies, etc., you can buy a little home.
Nanputuo Temple of the plain room is very well known, but the price is very expensive, more than a few people would be more cost-effective to go. If the few people still bought two boxes of cake back there, the prime taste it, smell nice.
Gulangyu of the farmer's market alley behind the house, there is little selling a self-baked pie, there are sweet, salty two kinds of taste, texture and good, but he's late, may be sold out. There are sea-oyster pancake, and a triangle of salt cake and I love it.
If you do not have time to eat a home over, railway stations, Wal-Mart's upstairs food court is also a good choice, yellow and scheme, the new Nanxuan there are counters, but definitely authentic probably be more difficult to guarantee.
To meet the New Year's night, Xiaofang took me to the lakeside village vegetable market where the big three stand to eat fried dish. The so-called fry dish, is to store the table hot pot replaced by a central black flat-bottomed pot large iron plate. Each table is made of a small oiler, salt, tin cans and MSG, as well as spatula, you can order the fish, rice cakes, fried tofu what to eat their own, you can also stir-fry. That family business stand quite well, 9:00 or so to get a table upstairs, downstairs seating is not left. I like salty fried rice cakes, where to eat, taste very good. There is also a market little boiled octopus to sell, you can eat mustard dip can also be mixed with spices supplied food, very fresh and delicious.
Live in Xiamen which there are three specifications of guest houses, Shaw House, 300 standard rooms a night, clean floor is 180, Xiamen hostels minimum, there are two double rooms, respectively, 140 and 112. I was two points away from the Railway Station Road Park, next to the bang and saw a no-star hotel (unfortunately I can not remember the name of) will play the banner ads, single 78, double room 98, is quite attractive.
Xiamen City is not OK, buses are very convenient, in a number of major stations, and even able to find dozens of routes to the same direction. There are Gongjiaozhanpai station, but no list of green cars and minibus, it is best to ask on the car driver or conductor. Xiamen buses are basically no ticketing, fares in winter are basically one dollar, and even air-conditioned car is the same. Summer air-conditioned car is 2 yuan. However, in Xiamen by bus to note, in addition to major stations, the same route up to the site are not necessarily correspond. In other words, the time to go under the car here, do not necessarily have the station across the road, you can sit back. This is different from Shanghai. To this end I have gone through several costly mistakes.
Take the ferry to Gulangyu time to time does not make money, and come back to buy 3 per ticket. The last ferry back to class each day is 18:00, so planned departure time. However, the island's people have told me that after 6 o'clock on the island on the back of the island boat tour terminals can come back, and also is 3 yuan. Never been, so not sure.
Gulangyu a ferry to go there a lot of local guides that take you to six spots, to close 10 yuan. If you have time constraints, but added can be considered. But if you like me to those sites not interested in an old house down to the island's spirits high, then you can spend 2 yuan of money in a small shop to buy a "Gulangyu self tourist map." However, this map is now the number seems to have been running out, I asked several shops before purchase. Also not far from the ferry there is a Gulangyu tourist office, where you can get free information on various attractions on the island. In the hands of the local tour guides who introduced the plan are in fact brought in from there. However, even took a self-tour map, if like me, a sense of direction is not strong, then it is easy to find can not find the old house, this time can only ask such question啦:)
Tour based on my personal feelings, Xiamen best attractions are: Gulangyu, Xiamen - Circle Road, Wan Shiyan, Nanputuo Temple, Jimei, Bailudong - hogye rock,胡里山炮台. Other attractions can be found in my travels the other one of the same name. Xiamen University Baicheng seaside is very beautiful, and can rent a bike tour around the island from where road. 胡里山炮台need to pay 20 yuan tickets, but also for those who lacked military knowledge and interest in people, not very worth seeing.
Wan Shiyan Botanical Garden actually quite beautiful, but the garden too, we must go in the morning in order to have sufficient time to thin to enjoy.
Nanputuo of incense is very prosperous for the hall in front of the stage were filled with pilgrims who brought fruit, snacks and the like of the offerings. I've been to the temple, pilgrims in the pilgrims who brought offerings knock finished head, finished by the following can all be taken away. There is not. It looked like the hill offerings, I can not help thinking that this temple and can still really delicious food. Some of the walls put a lot of yellow cloth of the futon, there are many very devout pilgrims to kneel on the above, chanting, a kneel for hours. After the temple hill has a small hole, the hole filled with pilgrims who packed his hired Buddha statue fear as much as several thousand, and the scene is quite spectacular. Going round hole, the ground filled with statues of those porcelain or pottery fragments after the break, I could not help but sigh, such a custom seems to fear of not continuing for a few years, but decades of the bar.
Jimei University's architectural style a lot of flavor, a pity that the door has a guard, easily let you go. Best to find Zhang Xuesheng card, falsely claimed that go looking for a classmate, look at the re-registration can be looked into. It can also be no access to see the dragon boat pool. Said pool, is actually a large artificial lake, is very ambitious, there are a lot of egrets flying wings, I really deserves to be called Xiamen "Sagishima" in reputation. Dragon pool next to Jimei School, which is the most beautiful I've ever seen a secondary school, two teaching building of architectural color spectacular.
Motorcycle ride from the Dragon Pool park should go to chelate 3 yuan of money, in fact, opened in the past is only 2,3 minutes. You just have been from a boat pool along the right path, about 15 minutes to walk, and the street has always been the sea, scenery and pleasant.
Chelating park should close the ticket 10 yuan, but in fact a very small garden, in addition to the tomb of cultivation Jiageng have more unique, and there is nothing to look at a place, but also in the road outside the park chelation can also be allowed to gaze longingly approximation. Jimei School would be better to go next to "Coming Home", there is Tan's former residence, the statue was there, but also a free yo.
White Deer Grotto and temples hogye rocks are in fact, I also went to the future can tell. These two temples are not large, especially the White Deer Grotto, I was New Year's Day with me, the result apart from the temple's monks, a few pilgrims, I was the only tourists there, which feels very strange. The temple, there is a small hall, incense table above, there are hexagram board, incense table next to sign a barrel. Seeking a sign on his door to the hall where a small cupboard to find solutions of signed numbers by signing the red note, there is no money or the custody of a monk there. It seems all the other temples are rare. In addition, from the White Deer Grotto there is a path out the back door, from where you can directly go hogye rock. These two temples are free.
Xiamen is a beautiful place, I hope my experience can be helpful to other Mix.
Author: elecherry
