day 12

This are some pictures taken from the east lake

It was again another sightseeing tour. We went to East Lake Tingtao Scenic Spot. As we went in the morning, many were still doing morning exercise in the garden. We spotted people fishing. What catches us most was the long fishing rod they used. I even saw an elderly playing tennis ALONE. From far, it was as if he was playing against an invisible wall where the ball bounces back at him when he hit the ball in the air. Everyone was very curious when they first saw. But actually the ball was tied to an elastic string which was tied down by heavy rock. Overall the garden was quite similar with the Chinese garden in Singapore actually.
After that brief walk in the garden, we moved on to Hubei Provincial Museum. I kept following the tour guide as she was explaining the artifact even though I had a hard time listening to her explanation. At least I did understand some of the explanation and I have my friend who good in Chinese trying to explain the things which I don’t understand.
Everyone started to get hungry as most of us skipped our breakfast. We were brought to a “Shou Garden Snack Street” to have our lunch. I finally found my long wanted “Xiao Long Bao” and of course I bought it for my lunch. They named it “Dang Bao” in Wuhan meaning Hot Bun as the soup in the bun was pretty hot.
We continue our journey to the famous delicacy Yellow Crane Tower. This was the best sightseeing place for the day. To be true we had a very experienced tour guide as she could explain every single thing about the history of China. We will be seeing her again tomorrow at 830am as we will be going for another city tour.

Lunch @ Shou Garden Snack Street

Queueing up to get the tap card

tap card

i get this "xiao long bao" for my lunch


here we come to the Yellow Crane Tower

entrance ticket

waiting as the queue was rather long

was on top of the tower

my first group photo jump shot
jarold, yoke may , daniel and me

take a look at my fellow mate ROY

the figure we are pointing at is the sign of the surname of TAN

photo of the day, making a wish with master poet Quan Yu

My Reflection:

Something I experience new for today was the place where we all have our lunch. We need to get a card from a counter. The card has to be top up with cash so that we can purchase the food we want by just tapping the card.
Money is one of the dirtiest things we as come in contact with. People handle money throughout the day and the amount of germs on a person’s hands varies from person to person. And by so it was a bright idea by introducing tap card as a way of payment as that practice good hygiene where stall holder do not need to contact with the money and then food.
The advantage of the tap card will be the practicing of good hygiene.
The disadvantages will be the troublesome we consumer faces. We have to go back all the way to the counter again once our card has run out of money. We could not see the money deducted from the stall holder as the machine was at the inside of the stall. We might get cheated from them easily if they wanted to.
I still prefer the normal way of buying food where prices are being display at the stall and we can quickly get the food we want by just paying it with cash.