Chaozhou Gourmet Check-in Edition
🤪Ever since I played the 'Flying Over Guangdong' attraction at the Sunac Park in Guangzhou, I've been incredibly attached to the Guangji Bridge 🤩
Today, I finally got to see the connection of those 18 boats
1⃣️ Guangji Bridge, one of the famous ancient bridges in China, has a middle section made up of 18 shuttle boats linked together to form a pontoon bridge that can open and close. When large ships or rafts need to pass, the pontoon boats in the middle can be disconnected to allow passage. There's a local saying: 'A trip to Guangdong is incomplete without visiting Chaozhou; a visit to Chaozhou is in vain without seeing the bridge.' So my trip was not in vain, as every day at 17:30, part of the boats in the middle section are moved aside to let the big ships through! Of course, I had to watch this before leaving, 🎫 tickets are 20 yuan per person, available upon arrival! The ticket also comes with a postcard, postage included, and I've already sent it back home and received it!
2⃣️📍Chaozhou Clay Pot Porridge, don't eat at the shops near the scenic area, they're not good at all. Walk a bit further to find food, obviously I ate near the scenic area, but then a kind young lady told me the above, friends, you'll have to search on your own
3⃣️📍Paifang Street, truly lives up to its reputation, walk all the way to the 'Number One Scholar' 🥇 archway at the end, endless archways, you must walk to the end! Walking down the street feels like Guangzhou's Shangxiajiu, haha, since I'm here, I've checked in!
4⃣️Try a Chaozhou tea drink: 📍'Xi Pian · Chao San Yi' Their tea jelly is very delicious, and they also offer express delivery! If you come to the ancient city, why not look for them? Here's the young lady I mentioned, she recommended to me where to find delicious clay pot porridge, want to know? Go find her, find her shop!
5️⃣Xima Road Snack Street
Super many snacks, and various internet-famous shops
✅ Cheap egg wine ✅ Kick peach ✅ Chaozhou fermented bean curd chicken wings ✅ Braised goose ✅ Licorice fruit🍉……
6️⃣Chaozhou West Lake
Near Xima Road, a local park, just stroll around
Additionally, there are many electric bicycles🚲 that need to be returned to designated locations. Once you reach Xima Road and the vicinity of the ancient city, you can't ride anymore, everyone please pay attention⚠️
Chaozhou es una ciudad del este de la provincia de Guangdong, con 2 millones y medio de habitantes en su núcleo urbano y 12 millones en el área metropolitana. Es la capital cultural chaoshanesa, con su propia lengua y tradiciones (particularmente, gastronómicas), diferenciada de la mayoría cantonesa (o yue) de la provincia. La cultura chaoshanesa, en realidad, procede de la emigración hacia el sur desde las llanuras centrales de China.Aunque hay registro de su existencia desde el 214 a.C., Chaozhou no es un asentamiento estable hasta el 331 d.C. En el siglo VII se convierte en una ciudad importante del sur de China, cuya cultura tiene relevancia incluso en provincias vecinas, como Fujian.Chaozhou es la cuna de la ceremonia china del té y de la opera chaoshanesa.
Chaozhou Paifang Street is the most dense commercial pedestrian street in China, and it is also a famous place in Chaozhou with Guangji Bridge and Kaiyuan Temple. Licorice fruit, salted water dumplings, egg, almond tea, yellow skin oil sauce, sugar onion pancakes, lion head goose...
In May, I took my parents to the staggered peak tour. The first stop was Chaozhou. The first stop in Chaozhou was that there were 100 archways that were archways. At 1 pm, I went to the archway street. After May Day, there was no scene of people moving. Only few tourists were hanging out, including us 😊 and many snack bars, so that we can taste local specialties with peace of mind.
Overall it is worth going, that is, there are too many people going to the summer vacation, and there are many people. It is not convenient to park in the scenic spot. You can choose the one on the edge of the scenic spot.
The archway street is located in the old town of Chaozhou, and there are many arcade buildings along the street, and there are 22 archways on the street.