Safely arrive at Malaysia in one piece! Thank you for your patience with me with all the emails and the award posts, I’ll follow up with them one by one as soon as possible. Thank you each and every one of you for not abandoning MiddleMe while I was away.
How’s my trip? I’ll let the photos do the talking while I start flexing my fingers for my next post. Enjoy!
(PS. you won’t find me in my photos because most of the photos involving me are not taken by my iPhone.)
The Terracotta Warriors. If you looked closely enough, you’ll find that on the other side of the gallery are full of tourists.
We took a cable car up the Hua Mountain (华山), just look at the breathtaking view! OMG!
The climb up the Eastern Peak of Hua Mountain. The steps on the way up the peak is pretty worn out due to the huge volume of visitors aka hikers each year, iron chains are planted along the way to prevent accident and for people grasp onto for balance. As the iron chains are pretty worn out and rusty, it is advisable to wear gloves in order not to injured our hands.
The revolution camp of Mao Zedong the founding father of People Republic of China
This was where Mao Zedong stayed when the revolution started.
Very interesting calligraphy on the public street. The old man is using brush and water to write on the pavement to practice his calligraphy skills.
On the art gallery streets of Shanghai…
The following photos are my favourite food in China. If anyone who wish to lure me back there, all they have to do is to invite me for dinner… You may noticed that below introductions are all meals meant to eat with a big group of people, in my opinion, a meal is the best when shared with the right company. A meal is most enjoyable when there are good food, great company and laughter!
This is called Yinyang Hotpot, made famous by Sichuan. One side is spicy numbing hot soup base (after 10mins, you can’t feel the taste buds on your tongue anymore) and on the other side is sweet tomato soup base. This is invented to allow those who can’t take anything spicy to enjoy the meal with those who can.
The Korean barbecue – I haven’t been to Korea yet so I am unable to compare if the one in China is any similar but I can tell you it is so so delicious especially during the cold winter. I can keep eating this every meal!!
This next dish is called the Three-Sauce Simmer Pot. Instead of soup base, it is stew based. All marinated meat and seafood together with fresh vegetables are stewed slowly under high fire in front of you. If you are sitting next to me, you can hear my tummy rumbling as I attempt to make small talk to distract myself from waiting.
This is last of the food I would like to introduce to you, it is called Porridge Hot Pot. So instead of soup base, it is replaced by white plain watery congee and you can start to place sticks of raw meat, seafood and vegetables into the high temperature pot to cook in the porridge. The result is lip smacking delicious.
Okay, I am making myself hungry.. Going to grab lunch!!
MiddleMe 
Welcome back and looks like you enjoyed your trip 😉
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Thank you!! Its fun and I enjoy myself very much but its good to be home.. I missed my pillows. Haha!
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nice.. happy for you my friend 🙂
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Welkome back Kally, even I got the taste and its 05:00 in the morning when I read it.
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Oooo.. I might have made your tummy rumbled so early in the morning. Oops!
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Everything looks amazing! Glad you had fun and welcome back. 🙂
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Thanks, Kat.. All I want to do is to snuggle up my pillows and bury under the comfort of familiar smell. 🙂
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Welcome back!
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Feels good to be back in a country with only two seasons – wet and dry seasons. Haha!
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Missed your posts. Looking forward to more!
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Awww.. You’re just super sweet! ☺️
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Thank you!
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Nice pics!
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Welcome back Kally…!
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Thank you!!! It feel great to be welcomed back by friends.
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Thanks for sharing your travels through the photos. It looks like you had a great time 😀
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Welcome back!!!!
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Thank you…! Feels good to be home after away for so long.
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Hey Kally,
Beautiful pictures, or should I say yummy pictures?
I can tell prima facie–you are a connoisseur of good food. More than site seeing you were exercising your taste buds I guess 😛
Thanks for sharing!
Love and light ❤
Anand 🙂
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Haha, Anand, you know me too well!! I am a fan of great food and my taste buds are well over pampered by me.
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Hahaha Cheers 🙂
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It does look like you had so much fun, and I am so happy for you! I hope you didn’t forget to take a photo of yourself with the beautiful scenery you’ve been to! I remember a friend telling me that one day, when you’re older and have a family of your own, your kids will be excited to see all the photos of the places you’ve been to, and they will wonder, “where were you in these pictures?” hehe!
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Haha! I am not much of a selfie taker. Memories are meant to keep inside my head and in my heart. I am more of a foodie hunter than a sightseeing tourist. So tour groups are not good for me because I’ll bugged the guide, asking him or her what are we eating next!
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Haha! I think we’ll be great tour buddies, then! Although I am a mixture of both kinds. I love testing out food and sightseeing at the same time. I love spontaneous trips, too! Looking forward to your next travel! 🙂
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I definitely think so too!! I do hope my next travel will be on a diving trip. I haven’t been diving for 2 years now. Miss the underwater world. 🙂
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Are there great diving spots near you? I am sure it will be so much fun! 2 years is a long time!
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Malaysia has one of the best diving spots in Asia. I’m so going to explore that!!
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Welcome back and looks like you enjoyed your stay by coming into contacts with new friends, new delicacies, new dresses and some new ideas to further your professional career
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Thank you!!! Great to be back home! Now it’s time to tidy up my posts. Haha!!
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Time for a few more awards!!!!! Hahaha
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Wahahaha!! Be sure to catch some of my award posts. They’re coming!!!!!
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Thanks for sharing, would love to visit Malaysia someday, especially for the food. But the place is just beautiful!!
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I’m fortunate that I have a good sensor for food! I live to eat, not eat to live.
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I like that…..”I live to eat, not eat to live!”
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Food is a huge part of my life. If not for the fact, that my career instinct kicks in and there are way too much foodie blogs out there, I’ll definitely be a foodie blogger. Haha!
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You should do one anyway 😉
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Ooo.. Thanks for the faith! Let’s take a step at a time. I want to nurture my baby MiddleMe first.
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Looks great Kally, sure you enjoyed it very much… and with that lovely food… mhhhhh
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Oh yes, I’m having shanghai food withdrawal symptoms now. Haha!! I can’t stop eating when I was there!
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Wow! How wonderful! And welcome back, of course … Great photos, too, and they make me envious! LOL 🙂 One day, perhaps, I’ll be privileged to travel to so many places, like China.
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Haha. Thank you! If you do travel to China, be sure to approach me for itinerary!
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I most certainly will! 😀
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How exciting! Thanks for sharing your adventures!!
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Thank you!! I had a lot of fun!! Glad you enjoy the photos.
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ok thnks ill be sure to follow you!
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Thank you!! And welcome to MiddleMe!!
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Welcome back Kally ❤
Thank you for sharing your experience with us, the second picture is just wow ❤ ❤
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Feels so great to be back!! I guess my bed misses me a lot too! Lol!
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Wow! Beautiful pictures Kally! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
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Thanks so much, Malaika!! Good to come home to friends like you.
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About time my friend. We missed you. 🙂
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Awwww…!!! And I missed all of you although I did tried to read as much as possible when I was there to keep in touch with all of your posts!
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Thanks and your awww is so nice of you. 🙂
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Always, my friend…
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Oh wow, that food looked delicious! Glad you had a great time!
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The food there is…OMG…to-die-for seriously!! Thanks for dropping in.
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wonderfull pictures…. love them all…
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Wow! Wonderful photos, Kally. Also, I want to say thank you for following me. Personally, I think I should have been following you, I would have seen so much more! Anyway, welcome back. :O)
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Thank you v much and welcome to MiddleMe!! You’ll find a lot of interesting articles for easy reading. 🙂
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Thank you, Kally. :o)
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Excellent photos, thanks for sharing!!!
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Thank you!! Glad to see you dropping in here.
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I am so glad to read you again! Lolouder! That food looks so delicious. I should show those pictures to the owners of the local Chinese restaurants I patronize here. Then ask them to put meals like that on their menu. I am sure it will boost their businesses. I am so hungry now! Thank you! Welcome back!
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Oooo.. If you need the recipes, let me know. It’s truly food that you will never get sick of. I’m having china food withdrawal symptoms thinking of it. Drool…..
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Welcome back.Way to go with the photography!
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Thanks a lot, James! Glad you love the photos!
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Amazing pictures, but Hua mountain, yangjialing revolution site, calligraphy skills I love the most
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Thank you! Those pictures are only a tiny bit of what I have taken.
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Actually resourceful article with some beautiful and hunger striking images now I can’t wait pls give some delicious food here also
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I wish I can deliver food to your doorstep alas it’s only feast for the eyes..
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