Train's Lyfe

09.00 // after packing all of our stuffs, we went out to have some breakfast before off to the railway station. We took our lugagges along the street, sometimes had to pick it up to go upstairs and then put it down again, until we reached the nearby subway station and then the railway station. It’s my first time traveling in China with Gaotie. The Guangzhou’s railway station was so big (i think bigger than airports in Indonesia). It had a lots of gates of ticket check points that got me confused from which one i had to enter. Walking inside the station, Q-ing for inspection and checking-in the ticket took about 20-25 minutes. Realizing that we were almost running out of time, i ran my feet off (with two lugagges) to get on board. Thankfully, we had arrived two minutes earlier before the train left.

Train Ticket to Shanghai

21.00 // we arrived at our booked hotel at Shanghai

From the almost-running-out-of-time experience that day, I promised to myself to depart earlier to the station. Not only to the station, but also to the airport and to everywhere during the trip. June-August is the holiday season in China. There are so many local tourists in every public places. Queuing is inevitable. And train, always departs on schedule.  So I have to set off earlier to anticipate. Don’t want to be in rush anymore *fiuh*.

The second day in Shanghai we went to The Bund – that famous place in Shanghai with its pearl tower, and also went to Shanghai Film Park to look around China ancient buildings locals usually use as the shooting film location. At one of local restaurants around the park, I tasted the original huiguorou.

Huiguorou (回锅肉)

is usually called Twice cooked pork or Double cooked pork belly. It is a Sichuan-style Chinese dish

#travelinfo
*) Before train checking-in, passengers should know exactly which check point they should go to have their tickets checked. The number of check point can be seen at the top right of the ticket. Afterwards, we should go to the platforms to get onboard.

*) Most local restaurants in China provide food menu which all written in Han Zi (Chinese Character) without the pictures of the food. You can recognize some key words like 肉 ”rou” which means “meat” in common, 鸡 “ji” (Chicken), 鱼 “yu” (fish), 牛 “niu” (beef), 猪 “zhu” (pork), and 鸭 “ya” (duck).