中山路， 泰国饭馆

01/03/2014 - Today is Saturday, and we decided to go to the city centre for some shopping in 中山路 Zhongshan road, a famous shopping street. Reaching the city centre is always quite tiring, but at two o’ clock we took our bikes, biked till the bus stop, took the 751 and after an hour and a half we reached the main campus of 厦大, the campus on the island. We went in a small shop near the north gate and we bought the university sweater. Love mine. Then we took the bus to 中山路, but at the end we went in another road. We just walked around for a while, but soon we realize that we were starving.

The Thai Restaurant

We would like to try something different, and we looked for a Thai restaurant on Google. We found one called Golden Elephant Bay and it was just 500 meters from where we were. Once there, it looked really expensive, but we were hungry, so it didn’t matter. We were six people, and we ordered six dishes (three were just vegetables because there were two vegetarians with us). We ate a coconut rice (rice with shrimps, peas, corn and other things served in a coconut), pineapple chicken (chicken with curry served in a pineapple, the sauce was great with some rice), some fried squid (I didn’t like them, they were too spicy), some vegetables with a coconut sauce (they were amazing, and I don’t like vegetables, especially cabbage), a vegetable soup and some other vegetables. We just drank the hot tea that they give you for free and we also ordered some white rice, and we paid 56 RMB per person. Wow. We will come back here again. Then Magdalena, my roommate, wanted to meet some friends at a beach party, but Alessandro, Erica and I were too tired, so we got a taxi and came back to the campus. it was 88.5 RMB, but the taxi driver wanted us to pay 102 RMB. We argued with him for a while, but then we were so tired that we gave him the money and went to bed. I hate taxi drivers, they always eat a lot of garlic. Bleah.

Typical Chinese traffic jam