Hongcun & Tunxi (Day 4)

Day 4

Eateries in Hangzhou East train station

Beef noodle with braised egg (37rmb)

Boarding gate in Hangzhou East train station is more open concept compare to Shanghai Train station.

Hangzhou East to Huangshan North (120rmb) 1h32m.

From Hangzhou North station, take a bus (2rmb) to Tunxi bus station.

Tunxi bus station

From Tunxi bus station, take bus to Hongcun (18rmb) 90m. Interval every hour.

Check bus timing here.

Buy admission ticket here, 104rmb pp.

I am lucky, got it at 52rmb on that day due to their holiday special rate.

Leave baggage is free here but they closed at 430pm.

I left my baggage here for 10rmb, just about 150metre away

There are many students come here for drawings.

From Hongcun, I took a carpool (拼车) 80rmb, 1h30m) back to Tunxi, sharing with 2 other passenger. If I take bus, I will need to transfer at Tunxi again.

Driver: 15056699945

Lookout  @ Xieli Scene (协里风光）

The driver dropped me at the entrance of Tunxi old street (屯溪老街).

This is the bridge towards Liyang old street (黎阳老街).

Alot of shop are selling chrysanthemum here, ink slab is also another famous produce in Anhui. 

Bought a brush for mum and forgot to negotiate, 150rmb...
And chrysanthemum (皇菊) for 80rmb

Ancient Town Youth Hostel (40rmb pn)

I can officially announced this is the worst hostel I ever stayed.

Graffiti everywhere, burnt curtain. Bed bugs

Smelly and broken toilet.

Bathroom

From Tunxi, walk about 10mins to Liyang street.

Liyang seems to be a less crowded street, more upper range and modern.

There are more drinking place here.

Back to Tunxi

老妈土菜馆

This is another favourite of this trip.

Total damage: 147rmb

Tea is free

I am lucky again to get this soup at 50% off, 49rmb.

This is a very big serving enough for 4 pax. I struggled and can only finish half of the soup hahaa. Very tasty and tons of nutrients..

干锅臭鲑鱼 (98rmb)

The fish is very fresh and they did it so well!

Fried salty fish with soy beans braised with the fish. 

Hangzhou (Day 3)

Day 3

Suzhou to Hangzhou (87rmb), takes 2h02m. D train.

In China, bullet train has a G in the train number. The next faster train is D.

Hangzhou East train station is also very big. There are few train stations in some cities, make sure you get to the correct train station.

Hangzhou East Train Station

Queuing to buy MRT single ticket.

Security is pretty tight in China, you need to pass thru scan check in all MRT stations, at least so far all that I have been.

Reached 安定路 station, walked another 10mins to Ho Fang Street where my hostel located in.

Ho Fang Street

This location is commerical shopping street with plenty of eateries.

But this is far from the main city and shopping malls.

Popiah skin wrapped with duck, spring onion and cucumber (30rmb)

Roasting green tea by hand.

Longjing (green tea) is another signature product in Hangzhou.

The bicycle is so organise and stack nicely.

From Ho Fang, walked another 20mins to Westlake.

Westlake

This is so big!

From westlake, walk another 15mins to InTime Departmental Store.

Google map show me that InTime has HaiDiLao but I later realised it was wrong.
Please use Baidu map instead, google has given wrong direction couple of times. Baidu is the best to use in China, it can even recommend the best restaurants with reviews or by dishes. 

From InTime, walked another 12mins to another building where HDL located.

It is on upper level and tooka queue number, I have more than 120 number in front of me. And that is about 4.30pm! not even dinner time yet.

After waiting for 30mins, I give up and head to next restaurant.

Hangzhou Restaurant

This is only about 5.15pm and the queue already so long.....

Tell them you willing to share table (拼桌), it will be faster to get a seat.

This is one of the good restaurant i have in this trip.
I sat in a VIP room, with 3 other groups, total 6 people sharing one big table.

Total damage: 140rmb with apple juice.

龙井虾 (69rmb)

This is damn good!!!

茄二法 (19rmb)

This is also pretty good!

蛋黄闷骚南瓜 (32rmb)

When i finished my dinner, there are more people waiting outside the restaurant.

From here, I walked back to westlake for night scene.

Mr Hema, supermarket under Alibaba.

They can cook for you at a nominal fee.

Hangzhou is very big from one point to another. My leg still to ache and took a cab back to my hostel (11rmb).

Hofang Youth International Hostel (120rmb)

The old hostel is pretty run down, i went to their toilet and is terrible with flooded floor.

Their deluxe room is on the other side, new building. This is highly recommended!

This is the old building

New building

Very spacious female dorm on ground floor.

Ensuites with separated bathroom and toilet.

Cafe in the hostel

Plenty of eateries open during late night.