Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Oct 26 Sun Back to the Pandas & Boatride

The weather is still glorious. We decided to take the boat ride that goes from the zoo to the Summer Palace.

First, at the zoo we had to visit our friends the pandas again. They were feeding the little guys bamboo. (Chuck is convinced that we have our timings down pat.)



Then we went to find the boat. It was a little hard to tell if we were in the right place, but were shoved in the correct direction. The ride took about an hour and is a pleasant glide through a nice canal. On the way we came to a lock. Instead of riding through the lock, we all got out and transferred to another boat. (I guess the original boat goes back for the next load.



At the Summer Palace, one could buy an entry or just go someplace else. Our ticket included the Summer Palace. We had been there before, but enjoyed walking around and looking at things again.



For dinner we went back to WaHaHa. This was the restaurant that we had been to with Yuan and Xiaoyan. We had a coupon for 100 RMB off, so of course we had to use it.
We started with the little fishies again.


Golden shrimp were coated with a delicious hard crust.
This rib dish was spectacular:




The meat was sliced off the bone. Underneath there was a cooked cabbage with peanuts & hot peppers. We demolished the dish.



They said that these were mustard greens - I think not, but they were tasty anyway.

For dessert we had these "Japanese plum balls"

It was mochi around a soft marshmallow around a filling.

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