上次回北京是疫情前了，一转眼都四年半了。回来什么都好，唯一不爽的是国内的游泳馆和健身房比美国的贵多了。家附近的街上小公园有很多老年人下棋，怀念这个场景。这是在美国一般见不到的。每次回国坐地铁都会发现又多了好几条线路，密密…

Returning home from a two-month solo backpacking trip. I met a little brother from Beijing who I met in Chiang Mai two months ago. I haven’t been in Beijing for too long. He took me to visit many alleys and small shops that I have never been to. The hutongs in Beijing in winter feel more Beijing-like than in summer, which is still the way I remember when I was a child. There are bare branches, and from time to time a group of birds come from...

Taking the high-speed rail from Guangzhou to Nanning, this is the third time I have come to Guangxi. I have eaten all three major rice noodles in Guangxi: Guilin rice noodles, Liuzhou snail noodles, and Nanning old friend noodles. It is said that people in Nanning love to eat vermicelli to the extreme. They can eat vermicelli for three meals a day, and there are all kinds of vermicelli. Today, I tasted Tianfuxiang's old friend noodles, freshly squeezed rice noodles, and roll noodles. The following is excerpted from…

I took the high-speed train to Guangzhou last night. My Couch Chef is an amazing cook, she had just cooked a whole table when I got to her house. She was another vegetarian I met on this trip. I went to Sun Yat-Sen University the next morning, but I couldn’t get in. It’s very strict here, and you have to swipe your ID at the door like a subway to get in. After passing by the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Shishi. However...

It takes 20 minutes from Shenzhen to Hong Kong by high-speed rail, which is really convenient. I stayed in a youth hostel and found that this hostel is the worst one I have stayed in in the past few months. Apart from the disadvantages of poor environment and small space, the service is also very poor. I booked one night wrong, and it was clearly stated on the Internet that I could refund in advance, but they refused to refund. Elevators throughout the building...

When I arrived in Shenzhen, I left my luggage at the train station, and then took the subway to the city center. I was a little shocked when I saw so many tall buildings when I got off the subway. There are people dancing, singing and skateboarding in the public square. Except for the Chinese flags all over the street, it feels a lot like Millennium Park in Chicago. The cultural atmosphere of this city is quite strong, there are several pictures…

Take a boat from Kinmen to Xiamen Wharf, and then take a bus to Huangcuo Village, where I meet my mother, aunt and cousin, who happened to be visiting Xiamen on New Year's Day. For dinner, I ate sand tea noodles, sea oyster fried, custard fruit, fire ginseng fruit, egg fruit and gold-wrapped silver with my family. Had black rice cakes the next morning. Then I went to Huwei Mountain to climb the mountain, and then I went to Hubin North Road to eat betel nut shrimp...

After returning from Wuhan to Nanjing, I went directly to Miweifang to buy a box of water tower cakes. Shuita Cake is actually a native of Ningbo. It is fermented from rice and is a local specialty cake made by hand. The appearance is white, and the mouth is soft and waxy. There are fermented rice and cooked rice in it, which makes the water tower cake soft and smells like wine.

Zhang Zhidong and Wuhan Museum are a good place with both historical thickness and literary feelings. The museum has a super sense of design, which makes people feel like they are shuttling between history and reality.

Yuejiang Tower is located on the Lion Mountain in the Gulou District in the northwest corner of Nanjing, close to the Yangtze River. It is one of the four famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River and is known as "the first building in the south of the Yangtze River". Song Lian, a litterateur in the Ming Dynasty, wrote "Yuejiang Tower" according to the imperial edict, but in fact, there are records first, and then buildings. Since then, for more than 600 years, there are no buildings in memory, and it was only completed in 2001.