Of Gardens and Street Food.

8th of December.

Today's visit was to Wang Shi Yuan, the garden my team and I are appointed to present on. We had to walk through a residential area to get to the garden, and it was quite an interesting experience.

Our tutor, Stan Fung making funny faces.

Putra presenting.

Everyone else paying attention to us.

Wang Shi Yuan was an interesting garden, or maybe I'm just being biased. Stan brought us around and explained certain things to us such as how spatial collapse is used to create two-dimensional views.

Everyone trying to capture the two-dimensional view of the garden.

Spatial collapse between the handrails and the rockeries.

After Wang Shi Yuan, we had lunch together and were off to visit Cang Lang Ting. A few of us who cannot read Chinese joked about this pavilion and called it the Cockroach Pavilion, as Cang Lang means cockroach in Mandarin if pronounced differently. Cang Lang Ting however means Surging Waves Pavilion.

 9th of December.

We had the whole morning to ourselves after a pretty hectic day before. It was a cold day so we decided to have hot pot for lunch!

Enjoying our hot pot.

We gathered back at the hotel after lunch and was off to visit two more gardens. We visited Yi Pu Yuan first and literally ran to the next one, which was Huan Xiu Shan Zhuang. It was a really funny scene as a group of about 30 people were running like mad on the streets while the locals stood by, shocked. Stan was worried that we couldn't make it in time as it was almost 4pm and the garden closes at 5pm. Fortunately, we were a group of young and healthy people and managed to get there with plenty of time to spare!

Group photo at Huan Xiu Shan Zhuang

After the visit, a few of us stayed back in the area to explore for a bit. We tried several types of street food despite Stan's warning. Thankfully none of us had any food poisoning.

A lady making some kind of omellete roll. 

Chinese buns and cakes.