Catz Small Small World: July 2016

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Beijing Trip Last day

Last day at Beijing, we plan to make our way to airport around 1pm as our flight is 4.30pm. So we dabao Mac donald breakfast back to hotel to eat so that Mom have more time to prepare and wash up.

After breakfast we went for our last minute shopping at the street along our hotel. And have lunch at Ippudo, Ippudo in Beijing is so fun their menu has a lot more interesting food compared with Sg one.

Hubby's ramen

Around 12plus we received a sms from SQ telling us that our flight is delayed till 7.50pm which is very late! Leaving us more time to rot at our hotel area. I even have to text my boss telling her that I'll need to apply urgent leave next day due to the flight delay.

But luckily that we still receive the sms and get ourselves prepared for it. Some people in the same flight didn't get the notice so they have to rot at airport for many hours.

So we check out later and continue walking around at the street at our hotel.

One of the place we went is the tea house to enjoy a pot of tea. A first time experience for mom & hubby.

After the tea we went back to hotel and get a cab to head down to airport. We went to airport earlier as we are afraid there's a jam. Beijing traffic jam can be very scary too.

After we reach airport and check in our luggage we were given meal voucher. Just nice we can have free dinner by SQ!

We then did some last minute shopping at the airport basically just buying the snacks and went up to the airplane. SQ even offer drinks and sandwiches at the gate counter we didn't take any of it. They didn't delay further and we depart on time.

Once we receive SG we were even give free gift from SQ.

We reach home quite late and we had a quick shower then goes to bed. It's a tiring trip but was still a fun one. Hopefully mom enjoys! Not sure when will our next trip together. Hope there will still be chance to bring our mommy oversea. :)

Beijing Trip Day 4

Beijing Trip Day 4 - 长城

Day 4 we follow a local tour to 长城, we reach the place where we get the tickets very early.

The place where we got our tickets, there's announcement telling tourist not to purchase package with any local people as they are scam. The announcement keep telling tourist to get tickets by authorized agent. The above photo is the booth we purchase our travel tickets from.

As you can see the tickets below it shows that we will be going to 3 location.

The place where we wait for the coach, the tour will only start when they have enough people to fit the coach. As it was a weekday so there wasn't much tourist, we waited for a few hours here before we have can leave. Kind of waste time, in future if you are going do plan it on a weekend perhaps better but just be there early.

The first location, it's the grave so there wasn't much photo to be taken. Didn't want to take photo inside as well. :P

2nd location where is the long walk way, didn't take much photo as well reason being we were in a car and it drive us to the end of the walk way. Kind of meaningless.... :P

Of cause the final location is the most looking forward place but the weather wasn't helping us. Once we reach the bottom of 长城 it started raining. It was so cold that my mom couldn't take it so she went back to the coach to hide while both of us just run to the cable car waiting area.

As you can see hubby was wearing the rain coat we purchase from our bus driver. Raining or shine we want to go up to the 长城.

As expected for us once we reach the top all we see is like this...

We couldn't really see the real top of the 长城, so we didn't bother to climb up further as it's a little dangerous as well due to the rain.

So we only take some photos and selfie then we went down to meet my mom.

A little disappointed as we didn't have great photo at 长城, not sure if we will choose to come back again in the future. Guess not.....

After the trip we went for a dinner and head back to hotel to pack our luggage.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Beijing Trip Day 3

Day 3 we went 天坛 .

Had a very full breakfast at a local restaurant, didn't expect we will enter this restaurant if it wasn't mom who said she wanted to try...hahaha

I wanted something soupy so I ordered noodles, hubby order the 葱油饼。

天坛

At the entrance and this place is also a long walk way.

After 天坛 we went to search for our lunch.

This place has a lot of restaurant that you can select from, Hubby wants to try another brand of Beijing roasted duck. This Beijing roasted duck presentation is so much better, taste also not bad. We wasn't too hungry so we didn't order anything just the Beijing roasted duck. Which is really just nice for the 3 of us.

After the lunch we walk around the street

After the walk we went back to hotel to rest, mom got tired and fall asleep at sofa. Hubby then suggested to dabao dinner back. He wanted to try the Zhang Jiang Mian so I told him to buy 2 potion back to share. There's a lot of vegetable and the sauce wasn't enough thus the noodles are very dry.

Maybe eating the noodles at the restaurant will taste better than dabao. But at least we tried the Zhang Jiang Mian. :)

Beijing Trip Day 2

Day 2 we went to 故宫.

故宫 is really a huge place, basically you can't really finish walking the whole place. Especially we are with mom, and the weather is not helping much it was damn hot.

We wake up early and had dim sum as our breakfast. Surprising the dim sum is not bad.

At the main entrance, it was really crowded that day. I think it's always so crowded everyday....hahaha

Right in front of the entrance, you see all different china people posing to take photo.

We are at the 午门....

A lot of people wanted to take a full photo of the 龙椅 but the structure of the place with all the pillars it's basically not possible. Everyone just crowd at the entrance and you need to fight your way right in. This is the best we can get.....

More photo of the 故宫...

We left 故宫 reach hotel already half dead. We dabao our late lunch and I couldn't resist not buying the KFC bucket rice to try. It's actually not bad although I didn't try our Singapore's version. Hahaha

Hubby & me went out shopping while mom rest more in the hotel. My sport shoe give way after a long day walk so I brought a new shoe from Li Ning. Latest design and it's cheap.

After shopping we went back to fetch mom to dinner place. Dinner place I requested Hai Di Lao steamboat! I had Hai Di Lao in Shanghai and I felt I would never eat this in Singapore! I felt it's super over priced in Singapore and the waiting time is way too long. So I requested to eat at Beijing again, we went early to ask for reservation. And we only need to wait for 3 queue number when we reached at our appointment time. So fast and so cheap! Not to mention their potion of food is big! Had a wonderful dinner at Hai Di Lao to end our night.

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Beijing Trip Day 1

Hubby and I wanted to take time to bring our mommy oversea. Last year we went Shanghai with mother-in-law, this year my mom's turn. Mom selected Beijing which I was kinda of shock with her choice as she mentioned she didn't want to go China. So we booked our Beijing trip in June, a long waited holiday.

1st day in Beijing

Our flight is in the morning, reached Changi Airport very early. I wanted to visit the Hello Kitty cafe, and since it's early in the morning I guess no queue bah?

Managed to try out the Hello Kitty cafe! The waffle is yummy, their food is better than the Pompompurin cafe.

The standard photo to take before flight at departure hall.

The flight is about 6 hours, and we reached Beijing around evening time. We checked in the hotel and went down to get our dinner.

The street at our hotel area, it's also a shopping street!

1st night we tried the Beijing roasted duck!

The real Beijing roasted duck is very different from what we eat in Singapore.

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China food potion is also very big, as you can see we only ordered 3 dishes and we couldn't finish it all. Mom & hubby think there's a lot msg as they drank a lot of water after the meal.

After the meal we went to walk walk along the Wang Fu Jing snack street.

The street sells a lot of tourist items, and a lot of snacks.

And they sell these "snacks" too.... we didn't try of cause but we saw some ang mo trying.

We ended the night early, day 2 will be a tiring day.

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Meet up with Grace in June, we had a great catch up that night. We decided to go for a short trip to Hong Kong after I'm back from Beijing. I hope she will stay happy & healthy and forget whatever that has happened recently. Everyone fall down before but must know when to stand up again. Life may be tough but there are good moments too. Maybe there are more better things coming soon?

Half a year have passed, I wishes more better things to come to her in the 2nd half year.

Selfie that night we took.

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