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Sichuan Food Rocks!
By CSHANSELLO | 4/12/2007 9:58:55 PM
At the end of Tibet street where it meet WuHou Temple Street, there is a great Dan Dan Noodle place. You will know it is the right one by the crowds of people eating noodles. Dan Dan noodles (dan dan mien) are a Sichuan specialty, and so are spicy. You must try them when you are in Chengdu.
Futher down Tibet street is a Tibetan resturauant that is painted bright yellow with a painting of a yak on the front. The food here is great and cheep, and they have an English menu. I recommend the yak meat bread.
The hot pot resturaunts on WuHou Temple are very good. There is one across the street from the temple that is very cheep (closer to Tibet street. There are two, and I like the one that doesn't have a take out window). We got two plates of meat, a plate of fish, and around six plates of vegtables and it only cost 56 yuan. I reccomend the sweet potato noodles. They also have an English Menu.
Finally, the tourist street near the Wuhou temple is very cheesy, but there is a snack street that that is very good. I especially liked the 7 rolls. Yum!
Don't be shy to try Sichuan food. Most Chinese people agree that it's the best in China.
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Where to stay in Chengdu
By CSHANSELLO | 4/12/2007 9:46:14 PM
Hi all!
Just wanted you to know that I really like staying in "Holly's Hostel" in Chengdu. I have been to Chengdu twice, and stayed there both times. A private room is 100-120 RMB. The people are helpful and friendly, the cafe is pretty good and cheep (I like the ginger tea), and the location is great (right by the Wuhou temple and Tibet street). I think it is my favorite place to stay in China.
The only things you should know if you stay there is that the showers aren't great (the water goes from hot to cold, and in the morning, I only got a trickle of water), and the Sichuan Opera show isn't worth the money. Near the Wuhou temple, there is a tea house where you can see a show for the price of a cup of tea (15 yuan for the cheepest tea).
If you stay there, there is an excellent Dan Dan noodle resturaunt (just look for the crowd eating noodles!) and a great Tibetan resturaunt (the outside is yellow with a yak painted on the side). The hot pot on the main street is also very good.
Have fun in Chengdu!
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What I wish I knew before going to Jiuzhaigou (part 2)
By CSHANSELLO | 4/12/2007 9:30:39 PM
A few more tips...
7) Follow the wooden plank roads. When you follow the plank roads, you will see more of everything, and everything in this park is worth seeing.
8) If you only have one day, see the main valley, starting at the "virgin forests" and working your way down. There are more colored pools on this side of the park, and more places to walk.
9) Don't get stuck with what you don't want, because it will probably cost you dearly. We were at a restaurant, and ordered eggplant. I come back from the bathroom, and there is a pot of soup on the table. They said they gave us this since they were out of eggplant. Fortunately, I had already seen that the soup was 168 Yuan on the menu, and sent it back, ordering a cheaper dish.
10) This park is absolutely worth visiting. I couldn't believe how beautiful and unspoiled it was. If you want to see the natural beauty of China, this is the place to go!
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What I wish I knew before going to Jiuzhaigou (part 1)
By CSHANSELLO | 4/12/2007 9:29:07 PM
1) Food and drink are not readily available in the park. Every bus stop has a toilet. I only found snacks and water in the village I visited and at the transfer station.
2) The services in the park are designed to work around the tour groups. If you want to do things apart from the crowd, it is more difficult. I didn't eat lunch during lunch time, and went to the transfer station to try and get some food. Since I was there at the wrong time (3pm) all of the food and snack counters were closed. I couldn't even buy a bottle of water.
3) It takes between 1 1/2 - 2 hours to go between the park and the airport. My mother and I paid 300 yuan for a taxi. Our hotel set itup. It was worth the convenience.
4) The airplanes out of Jiuzhaigou are always late. We booked our tickets through a hostel in Chengdu. We were going to transfer at the Chengdu airport, and go straight back to Nanjing. She booked the tickets so that we would have a five hour buffer between flights. It turned out that our plane to Chengdu was over four hours late, so we just made our plane to Nanjing. This happens often enough that the people at the hostel knew.
5) Buy: a tourist sketch map (3-5 Yuan), and the small book called "A Complete Tour Guide of Jiuzhaigou, A world of Fairy Tales" (29.80 Yuan). It is the most informative book I have bought in China.
6) I paid 280 Yuan per night for a decent 4 star hotel that was an 8 Yuan taxi ride from the gate (called the Kang Ba Noble Manor). Even this was a little high. Listed prices are never true, so haggle.
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Panda cubs are cute, but you can only take photos of the adults
By DICKNKY | 9/18/2010 6:00:51 AM
If you don't have time to get to Wu Long there is a Panda research centre just outside Cheng Du (NOT THE ZOO). You can take a bus, but a taxi is only about £3 (US$6) each way. The centre is well run and has lots of info in English. When I was there they had ten cubs of less than one year old and they are so cute. They were all having their health check-up on the day I visited, but apparently you can hold one if you are there on the right day of the week.
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Weiqi in Chengdu
By PILIPILI | 2/5/2007 11:24:09 PM
Did you hear about weiqi? (go in japanese or baduk in corea) Chengdu is the native place about this game. And there is a french guy there witch is goal is to promote the relationship between east and west about this game.
His blog: (many pictures, articles, even some professional games...)
chengduweiqicenter.blog4ever.com
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Endangered Plant/Gonggashan
By NAMELESSTAO | 12/8/2006 9:10:41 AM
The vendors and guides on and around Hailuogou glacier sell a small plant. Its name is Cong1 Cao3. The vendors usually keep it in a little box and the guides keep it in a cigarette box. It can be as long as a cigarette, but usually shorter and less thick. It has a thin skin of dark brown covering a lighter interior.
Cong cao sells for about 5rmb dried and 20rmb fresh.
Please don't buy it.
It's sold under the pretext as being the best thing around for mountain sickness.
First of all...you're not really that high at Hailuogou. Second of all, if you're with a tour, chances are you won't be up there that long anyway.
And lastly, it's expensive and it won't work if you already have a headache.
This plant only grows above 4000 metres. It has no leaves, no fruit, no seeds. It propagates underground. It looks like a piece of thick brown grass.
On Gonggashan,it's becoming scarce.
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One cafe bar you can't miss...
By CAFELOVER | 9/16/2006 1:20:49 AM
I found this pretty marchine in one chengdu cafe bar named "feeling4seasons cafe" (http://www.f4scafe.cn),address:Orient Times Mall 2F,xia dongda street,chengdu. And they provide very very nice espresso,cappuccino and latte..with italy LAVAZZA. very nice service and price..
I love it....
You can reach them via 028-66208848.
Enjoy your cafe travl in chengdu....
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