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Barbecue at late night
ALICEGAO | Wuhan | 9/28/2006 5:03:06 AM

People in Wuhan are very good at eating, 'coz there're too many delicious food and snacks here. They even won't waste the time at late night, haha… And the barbecue is the best choice, lots of friends just hang out together, and sit around a small (exactly, tiny and low table) piled up with lots of dishes, and decorated with bottled beer.
It's not the good place to be elegance and shy, but absolutely the very place to eat good food and enjoy friendship.

Bars in Wuhan
ALICEGAO | Wuhan | 9/28/2006 4:51:05 AM

Bars make the nightlife become more colorful and relaxing.
If you're in Wuhan, you'd better to try the bar named "Soho" which has a very up-to-date music and hot dancing.
While, if you prefer the crazy music played by band, go to "VOX" in where you can watch the live bands show, although they're not so famous, their music is still pretty good. By the way, the drinks in “VOX” are also cheaper than many other bars in Wuhan.

Tricks of Chongqing travel agency for Yangtze cruise boat(2)
ALICEGAO | Yangtze River | 9/25/2006 3:52:47 AM

In the end, our cabin was smaller than your average Chinese toilet, dingy, dirty, smelly and either unpleasantly hot or cold. We were met with amazingly gruff and unfriendly (often bordering on rude) service, aggressive hawking of various wares, etc. We were provided with a "tourguide" who did nothing except show up and ask us to buy tickets. For the two times our tickets <i>were</i> included, she was nowhere to be found and we spent a good part of the time allotted for touring these boring sites looking for her. We were also made to buy a ticket (first priced at 120 kuai each, later "
discounted" to the real price of 40 once we saw that written on the ticket itself) in order to simply go to the parts of the boat where one could see the surrounding scenery, and almost none of the tickets were included. We were asked to pay for almost every one of our stops, excepting two (which noone would really want to see anyway). The worst of which was the actual three gorges dam, where we were not told that our tickets weren't included and we got off the boat, went up in the lift, and suddenly saw our boat departing. We were then completely stuck; buy a ticket to tour the damned dam for 150 kuai or buy a bus ticket to where the boat would meet us for 30.

Long story short, You could say it about doing anything anywhere, but be really careful when you embark on a tour of the three gorges. At all costs avoid 重庆市纵横旅业有限公司 (Chongqing Zongheng Travel agency ltd.), right near the train station!! Don't get ripped off like we did!

Tricks of chongqing travel agency for Yangtze cruise boat (1)
ALICEGAO | Yangtze River | 9/25/2006 3:51:14 AM

Be particularly alert when choosing a service if you're planning a tour of the three gorges area. We, despite our best efforts, were severely ripped off! We were shown luxurious, fantastic photos of first class cabins and after a week of laying low due to an unfortunate accident in which I was burned, we decided to shell out the extra cash for first class - about 1,500 kuai per ticket. We were assured our rooms were the rooms from the picture and all tickets and everything except food was included.

Wuhan's breakfast street
ALICEGAO | Wuhan | 9/25/2006 3:34:12 AM

If you want travel to Wuhan of Hubei province, you'd better to have your breakfast in "Hu4 bu4" alley (also called as breakfasr street) in Wuchang which is one parts of Wuhan city. It's worthy of getting up early.
Then, what you need to do is just keep eating while walking down the narrow but clean alley. You can get all the local food in one street, quite convenient, isn't it? And the price is also reasonable!
I strongly recommend "hot dry noodle", "dou4 pi2" (which is a kind of bread with the stuffings of sticky rice, tofu dices, a few pork, lots of spices), and deep fried sticky rice ball, duck neck with the brand of "jing wu men" if you can't eat too much for one morning, haha...
Enjoy the food there!

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