Before lots of travel ...
KL
After lots of travel ...
KL -> Tokyo -> KL -> Beijing -> Shanghai -> Hong Kong -> Taipei -> Hong Kong -> Guangzhou -> Hong Kong -> KL -> Manila -> KL -> Jakarta -> KL
All of that in about a month ... *faints dramatically*
After all the travelling, and all the flying about ... I'm back on terra firma. Last week I was in sweaty Manila, doing some work, and staying in the tourist belt area for the first time.
I'll be staying in Makati next time around ... Manila Bay is nice ... but not nice enough ! More on that in a later blog.
Work has pretty much taken over life at this point of time, so apologies for the infrequent update.
I have plenty of material to blog on, having returned from a tour of the Far East. But really ... even for a short update like this, I only have the time at 3 am !
*tsk tsk*
Back to work ...
I've been travelling loads lately, and some of you who've been following my blog the past few weeks would have noticed that.
By straight line distance, I've travelled around 12,000 kms. But of course, if we consider all the taxi-ing the planes do when they reach an airport, and how many times I've been taken for a ride by taxi drivers, I've obviously travelled much more than that.
First stop was to Beijing, where there was the Forbidden City revisited, as well as the Great Wall, amongst others.
Next stop - Shanghai - home to the famous Bund. However, I found the Yuyuan Gardens nicer, as was Zhouzhuang, which was nice, but unfortunately, infested with tourists like me.
After scrambling through the haze (also called a fog by the Chinese government), I managed to reach Taipei via Hong Kong.
And from Taipei, I went on to Guangzhou via Hong Kong (again). You see, these politicians think that they are making a really strong statement by not letting direct air traffic go from China to Taiwan. Amazingly, due to the timing, I didn't even manage ONE photo in Taipei.
And finally, I stayed a night in Hong Kong before coming home.
It was one heck of an eye opener - and the food wasn't that bad too. Highlight would be how I've eaten Shanghai crabs 3 times during the trip !!! On the final stop, in Hong Kong, I actually had the most expensive meal ever in my life !!! Good thing someone belanja ... =)
I'll blog about this trip, as well as the previous Japan trip too, very, very, soon once I stop all these travel mumbo jumbo.
Since some of you had some not so nice words to say about my post on Midori Sushi in Tokyo, I flew in to Tokyo to eat there again, and took this picture.
Now you know what I'm talking about ... See if you can spot anything in that picture you would normally find in Malaysia. This is the smaller sushi platter, there is a much bigger one that would have even more !
Now you know what I was talking about then ...
There's sea eel (not river eel), sea urchin, caviar with shrimp, octopus, cuttlefish, scallop, crabstick, fish and toro (fatty tuna) sushis. And of course, some tuna roll as well ...
