China Travel Stories

Eating Your Way Around Nanjing

Date: 2009-3-19 20:42:00 by jernie Tags: Nanjing delicacies

So you've made your way to venerable Nanjing, and you're standing by the paifang at Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum. Mount Zijin, rising up behind it, seems more brown than purple. You try to muster the appropriate sentiment for this tribute to one of modern China's greatest heroes, but it's not easy. You're groggy from jetlag, and still rattled from the bus ride over. You wonder if you'll venture the

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China Cuture Tour, Nanjing

Date: 2008-4-28 1:34:00 by John Tags: Nanjing

We were spending a few days in Nanjing, capital of eastern China's Jiangsu province last year.

Little did I know that the train stopped at a different railway station. At the west station rather than the main station. So cannot find the bus and resort to a taxi. There seems to be an abundance of westerners here (although this is probably relative...), but everything is still Chine

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Fish of Nanjing

Date: 2008-4-14 1:38:00 by Terry Tags: Nanjing

"Lucky I had my magic pills with me, or I don't think I would have lived," I told the hotel receptionists the following day.

Allow me to rewind time: The previous evening, before my impending death, I accompanied two girl friends. We zigzagged, dodging periodic rain between the glowing signs and shanty roofs along the Yangtze. Filled with more rain than hunger, we sear

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