Tag archive for ‘family’
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The Hex of Hangzhou? 八卦田
The Hangzhou Octagram farm must be a well kept secret as it took quite a while to find the proper name for the place – 八卦田 – let alone its location – Yuhuangshan Road as it turns into Nanfu Road (玉皇山路和南复路). On a clean day there are great views of Hangzhou and West Lake and the Qiantang River, a little history and a pint at the end of it all.
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Longjing New Tea 1Y per Leaf
Despite the dustbowl that Hangzhou became on Sunday – something to do with the Gobi desert migrating to Japan – we decided to go for a wander and see of they had started picking the new tea yet… …I couldn’t figure out if they were trying to park, or drive, or just organise an impromptu air horn requiem to google.cn. Whatever it was, it was time to walk, because the cars wouldn’t be going anywhere for a while…
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Angelos – A Slice of New York in Hangzhou
The Chateaubriand was 20 centimeters long, the whole tail end of a filet of beef. Slightly blackened on the outside, this gargantuan piece of beef cleaved open, almost poetically, to show the soft juicy pink centre…
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Eudora Station
Chatting about Eudora Station, the restaurant’s owner wanted to know if it was a good thing that many were saying that Eudora is the “new Paradise Rock”. I am sure nobody much likes to be compared with somebody or something else, especially when you don’t know the other, but I told Thomas that it was probably a good thing.
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Fengdu Restaurant (枫都美食)
It would seem to be a serious omission that there isn’t a page on here about Fengdu Restaurant, as it is a veritable gem, nearly always open, great for after after-dinner-drinks dinner And it’s right next door to my favourite drinking establishment, Maya Bar. So time to correct that omission my first day back to [...]
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Green Tea Restaurant
No place is perfect, and Green Tea is no exception. Despite the name, this restaurant doesn’t really have anything to do with green tea or even Hangzhou, but it is one of those places that would be a shame to miss. It’s just the character of place really. Aside from the food, which is excellent [...]
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‘Moksh Pitting’ in an Indian
Hangzhou’s two Indian restaurants, Haveli and Indian Kitchen, have achieved somewhat institution status in town and have ridden out the restaurant storm where other places have died a quiet death. Now there’s a new kid on the block… let’s see if Moksh can battle the establishments.
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Martini Madness
Sometimes a bit of hair of the dog is the only way to go on a Sunday to try to fix the excesses of the Saturday – mine was a crazy wedding – and luckily for Hangzhou there are a few places to choose from. The Hyatt Regency does a mean weekend Champagne Buffet Brunch [...]
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Jamaica Cafe
Dont really know why this place is called Jamaica, it is a chain of cafe’s from Spain. And it certainly doesn’t have that Reggae thing going on. Whatever the name, Jamaica Cafe is good, and could be called just about anything. These guys really know about their coffee, or at least I think so, and [...]
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Counter-Strike China, BB Gun…
Hahahaha. God it was a lot of fun. And intense. And pretty painful too – obviously not the same as 7.62mm AK-47 round – but enough to try to make sure you dont get hit too many times.
By McE
I like real guns that shoot real things that move – not too many people on the whole, [...]
