Last Day In Guangzhou

It’s really rare that we woke up happily this morning thinking that we will be taking the mid-night flight back to Singapore! Usually, we will feel sad or perhaps unbearable to leave the particular country when we are on holiday. Today, it’s different…. We can’t wait to see our kiddos back home… totally missing them dearly!

After our sumptuous breakfast, we returned to our room to rest and finished up some packing since we will be checking out later today. As there was no shopping mall near our hotel, we decided to explore the hotel instead. Though it was freezing cold outside, we took a stroll in their garden and walked around the pool side which was obviously closed due to weather. It was such a nice place actually and they even built a small ice-skating ring for the kids.

For lunch, we went back to the Chinese restaurant in the hotel for our dim sum lunch since dinner was pretty good last night. We ordered some of our favourite dishes like the chicken feet, carrot cake, prawn dumplings… we also tried out their steamed pig stomach which was SUPERB and the chicken fish mall porridge which was the star of the meal! It was so sweet and super YUMMY! If I return to Guangzhou next time and stayed in the same hotel, I will want that porridge again!

Looking at our watches and counting down the hours before seeing our kiddos, we decided to head out to town instead of wasting our time in the room. We went to their business district today and also one of the largest underground shopping mall in Guangzhou.

We also explored one of the most popular shopping mall in Guangzhou but shops mostly branded. We were amazed by how beautifully their toilets were designed. They actually had a different theme or colour for their toilets on every floors! Hubby was fascinated by how clean, gorgeous and huge the toilets were and yes… you might have guessed… we checked out all the toilets on every level and found that the winner was on the highest level where they housed all the luxury brands.

We walked till we lost track of time and it was almost dinner time. Since we are in the mall, we checked out some of the restaurants but none seemed to interest us. We popped into this ‘crystal jade’ looked alike restaurant and ordered our dinner. The noodles were great but the beancurd dessert wasn’t as good as it looked. I would very much prefer our very one Rochor Beancurd which is cheap and tasty!

Overall, the experience in Guangzhou was good and it was indeed a place where you have no worries when it comes to food. I guess we will be back to Guangzhou with the family in the near future. J