Tag archive for ‘West Lake’
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Guo’s Villa | 郭庄
Guo’s Villa is one of those places you wish were a secret. On a slightly off-colour day, the weather I mean, there are few people there and sitting right on the bank of West Lake drinking green tea with a book or friend is one of those unique-to-Hangzhou ways of whiling away an afternoon. Whoever [...]
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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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Va Bene
Va Bene on Hangzhou West Lake (西湖天地) is one of those Italian evenings you creep off to for a little spoiling. Good food, fast discrete service in a comfortable restaurant.
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Costa Coffee
When you walk into either of them it’s kinda hard to put your finger on the major differences between Costa and Starbucks. Costa is from England, Starbucks from America, ok. Starbucks is of course the bigger player here in Hangzhou, although Costa does well in England. After that, well… Inside they are very familiar, almost [...]
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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 [...]
By SWG
