08.10.08
A short trip to Chaozhou
Writing from a “4 star” hotel room in Chaozhou. Although it’s a 4 star, we came to know that 2 of the stars are us.
Coming to Chaozhou was an ok idea for me since in general this is my hometown. I speak the language and more importantly I’ve been missing Chaoshanese food for a while.
So after checking in the hotel we decided to have a decent lunch in the hotel. I ordered the regular hometown specialty. The preserved raddish was really good. I kept eating until I stopped:”Look!”
“a cockroach!”
Gordo shrugged his shoulders:”It’s just meat.”
All right. I don’t like to make trouble.
Then they brought up the soup. It was great…until i found some floating insect.
ah………can not put up with it anymore. Called the Xiaojie and told them:”You really are creative in your dish!”
Ordered a preserved raddish you got a “salada baratinho”(cockroach salad), ordered a duck soup you get duck hair together with some floating insect(”sopa de insecto)”. This is what you expect of a 4-star hotel restaurant….
And obviously we got the runs. Well not sure mine had anything to do with lunch but definitely Gordo’s was.
Everything smells mildewy in this hotel.Old carpet and saw another small roach in the bathroom. Didn’t kill it because it didn’t scare me.It was still a baby. Gordo always said there is a meanness in me but I cant agree…
Had some much better dinner with supplier and I dragged them to take me to places where I can buy hometown specialties. Bought many cans of preserved food for Mom. Had a strong crave for peanut candy but it was too late and couldn’t find.
This is generally a shitty city(quote Gordo’s “This is like going back in time”), but one thing for sure, the people here is much nicer. Made many attempts to ask for direction and I found hommies are very very friendly! Gznese are much colder compared to them.