Shajing

This is a post mainly of food when I went to Shajing where my grandma and uncle lives in China - It's a town within Shenzhen which is the main city. We didn't really do much while we were there other than eat out most nights with different groups of my mum's friends.

The view from my little cousin's bedroom window. The last time I went in 2016 it wasn't as built up as this. 

Just taking their chicken for a walk around the block...

Building a water park round the corner. Will defo be open if I ever go back

Considering the floor space in my grandma's flat is bigger than what we have here in the UK I ended up sleeping on the windowsill with a crap "mattress". Part of the reason I couldn't wait to come home and just sleep in my own bed!

The first night we went out for food with a group of my mum's friends and this is the selection of food that was ordered

Steamed chicken

Sea snails Gavin ordered

Oysters in batter

Oysters

Garlic oysters - one of my mum's friend farms oysters and brought her own to the restaurant for them to cook. You have to pay for it to be cooked which is made. Imagine that happening here! Just bringing your own ingredients to be cooked...

Shrimps

Oyster overload and it doesn't stop there as oyster is what you eat in Shajing - what my mum's family used to do.

The next morning grandma treated us to yan ta dim sum

Cheung fan

Chicken feet

The pink is the same as cheung fun then the inside was prawn in batter

Grandma has pig's liver and likes white chicken feet - not a fan of white chicken feet!

Lava custard bao

Egg tarts

2 ice creams in Burger King for ¥7 (around 70p!)

Dinner we had in my grandma's cooked by my auntie and roast goose.

These foods trucks only appear in the night

I went out for a walk on my own after dinner and stumbled on this food festival that was happening that was down the road from my grandma's

You could win actual live animals... rabbits, chicks and chicks. All you had to do was throw the hoop around the animal you wanted! The poor animals were caged in tiniest boxes. If this was in the UK you would have been arrested!

I took mum, dad and Gavin down the next day to the festival.

Ice cream wasn't great was dead icy

Sell some mad food!

This was a really fancy expensive meal that was wasted on us as we just didn't appreciate it with a different group of mum's friends - This was massive group of people

Sea snails

Soup with sort of sea things (?!)

Duck foot and abalone - not a fan

Also not a fan of these small crabs

Fish

Some root veg

Steak on onions

Oysters

Salt & pepper oysters

Some root veg

Bak choy

Fried rice

Veg

Choi sum

Out with different friends for dinner...

Some mini bird

Chinese soup with lotus root and meat

Tofu

Veg

Fish

These were free - egg tarts and char siu baos

Pig intestines

Fried rice

Roast goose soup noodles

Chicken feet and different dim sums

Cheung fan rolls with a sweet peanut sauce and it was also spicy!

Then out for dinner with friends we'd seen before

Roast goose

Some sea shells

Eel

Like Portuguese tarts but with short crust pastry

You can buy baos and they're so cheap 30p each for a massive char siu bao!

Seafood noodles

This ice cream was so cheap but I can[t remember exactly how much it was but only realised it was downstairs grandma's on the last day. Which I guess was a good thing otherwise I would have got it everyday.

Matcha Hong Kong bubble waffle

Crushed as my mum's mate was fighting me to buy it. She did end up paying for it. It was alright but defo better if it was white chocolate.

Uncle paid for me and Gavin to go go-karting one day.

There was a random sucking pig there

Park up in the mountains up the road from go-karting

Park nearby

Dinner on the flight home - Stir-fried beef with pepper celery, mushroom steamed rice. Wanted the chicken but cos was sat right at the back of the plane they had none left by the time it got to me

Breakfast - Braised noodles, beef, cabbage, carrot, long bean

Food was crap the food on the way there was better but plane food is never good.

Basically a food diary of when I went to Shajing because we didn't actually do anything while we were there. We did stuff when we went to different parts so there is a few more China posts to come! Annoying as I'm sure on the last night I seen Maccies were doing matcha soft serve ice cream!

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Bam Boo Escape

Belated birthday day out for Holly's birthday - Brunch at Bam Boo on Bold Street which we've had on the list for a while

Pistachio and Mascarpone Soufflé Pancakes - Pistachios, mascarpone topping, pistachio sauce served with vanilla ice cream - £13

These are new and have only just been added to the menu. I had to try them as I love pistachio. They were really sweet and also tasted a bit salty. The ice cream was very icy. Would have been better if the pistachio sauce wasn't as sweet.

I want to try Biscoff mascarpone and Kinder Bueno pancakes.

Pesky Full English - Hot smoked salmon, poached egg, wilted spinach, asparagus, cherry vine tomatoes, fried mushroom, hashbrown, beans, smashed avocado and toasted semola bread - £16

This was good but so much food on a plate! Defo didn't need the bread or 2 hashbrowns. Everything was warm then it was a bit of shock when the avocado was cold

Hash Stacks - Potato onion rosti stack, diced potato, peppers, roasted chickpeas, cherry tomato, crumbled feta, smashed avocado, poached eggs and a short of chilli honey - £11.50

Holly got this and you get 3 hashbrowns which is a lot! She managed to eat 1 and a half. They did taste good but too much which ended up getting wasted.

We were so full after - we defo didn't need to the have the pancakes but I wanted to try them and didn't want to have something sweet for my lunch so we got it to share but I ended up eating most of it.

I booked the table for 1:15pm and were a bit late so rang them to let them know and they said we'd only be able to have the table for an hour as they're really busy. They weren't even that busy and the place was smaller than I thought. The food was good and came out quick. One thing they're missing is matcha lattes which I thought they did do.

After we walked round town for a bit as I booked to go to Escape Hunt to do an escape room - Alice in Puzzleland. We went 2 years ago for my birthday and we wanted to do this one but it was fully booked so did the pirate one instead and said we would try this at some point.

Escape Hunt Liverpool

We did the Alice in Wonderland themed escape room and just like the last one it took us a while to get into it. But we did mange to get out sadly slower than last time in 50.47 (49.17 last time). You had to do things in the a certain order before you could move on. Some bits we found easy to work out then others we needed some clues to help push us along. It was good and we enjoyed it. Don't know how people can do it in under 30 mins as it takes us that long to just get into it! But once we do get into it and know what we're doing we're good. We have 3 more to complete - The Fourth Samurai (meant to be the hardest), Escape The Wild West (less liner so you don't have to complete things in a certain order before you can move on) and The Last Vikings.

After we went to Black Sheep Coffee for a matcha latte. Holly lost a bet as I knew this year was the year of the dragon and last year was the year of the rabbit and she didn't believe me! They weren't the best matcha's as the milk was too hot and was really milky. We both got coconut milk and it was filled right to the top of the mug Holly spilt it bringing it to the table.

Had a great little day out that wasn't filled with just eating and actually doing a fun activity. This is going to be how our catch ups are going to be filled with doing a fun activity as well as eating something from our never ending list of places to try.

A nice end to a very long working week and back to it tomorrow :(

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