xi'an day 1 =D

so its finally 30th sept!! and day 1 of the 西安trip!! hahaha.. ok la.. woke up v v early for once.. yea the earliest since the start of the golden week..cuz the flight to xi'an is ard like close to 1pm..ard there la as far as i rmb. so yea..woke up at 8am(cab is at 930am, agar 1.5hrs from my house to pudong airport) and jus kinda packed the last few like toiletries la, laptop, adaptor blablab..grabbed v simple breakfast(bread really) and waited for the cab to come... cab was alr booked by me but will fetch celest and her father 1st at motel 168 b4 coming to my apartment la..

then cab came..along with celest and her father.. ok so i kinda hopped on.. somehow...i think due to celest's really gd breakfast(of crabs again i think.. as far as i rmb), she became really high.. ok la..nt so much during the ride to airport.. but when reach airport tt time..ard like 1030am.. celest morphed into Crazy Girl!! well 1stly she jus started talking and laughing to herself.... 2ndly well..she jus like to somehow knock into ppl..oh yea.. no person she knew was spared... ok..kena knock here knock there... then i went to sms for help.. more like call for SOS lor.. then argh! celest saw what i was smsing... perfect..kena knocked even more.. T.T(with celest's continuous laughter..crazy or nt? u judge urself... =P)

anw since we were pretty early for the flight, we kinda went into some kopi restaurant to slack a while 1st.. and had a pretty ok choc cake...

anw the flight took ard 2.5hrs..(thankfully Crazy Girl alr has 0 mana and reverted back to celest who slept throughout the flight) took china airlines.. food served on board was.. soso la.. haha.. gd enough.. well actually celest alr arranged with her friend's friend called cui yichen(i hope i spelt his name right) to sort of be our tour guide in xi'an..best part is.. he has a car.. so most of our travelling ard xi'an is ard taken care of.. zai leh! hah

after a 1hr+ ride from xi'an's airport to our motel168, welcome to the city of xi'an!!

xi'an is actually an ancient city in which ard 12(i think) dynasties made this place their captial.. well for one reason that i can think of its cuz xi'an is roughly located in the center of china.. xi'an is nt as developed as shanghai..

and now to the 1st tourist attaction of the day.. the bell tower...

as u can see..the bell tower is for reporting time.. smth like a really big cuckoo clock... and it has been standing in xi'an for ard 600+yrs alr..

one of the bell tower's bell with cute girl

bell tower view at night

after that, we headed over to the drum tower... if the bell tower is like some huge clock that rings , then the drum tower is like the weather forecast man.. each different beat represents some kinda weather..

world largest drum

me with one of the drums..

beautiful night view from the drum tower

so after the day's touring of the bell and drum tower, its time for dinner!!! ahahaha.. headed over to 回民街 to have dinner... 回民街 is like a small eat street.. like picture 南京西路 in shanghai.. but like x10 the length... yea... 回民街 is pretty big.. and full of xi'an local delicacies + other delicacies.. 回民街 is full of like.. chinese muslims(yes..chinese ladies with tudongs, and guys with tt nt so sure what its called hat).. they are mostly from china states near russia...

cui yichen 1st brought us to this stall selling.. actually i oso dunno what its called.. hahaha.. but its smth like tutu queh... u know.. at the pasam malam kind... except bigger.. and the put it on sticks + put some sweet jam or peanuts for u..

anw..the streets were people mountain people sea(人山人海).. cuz its like 1 day b4 the national day+dinner time.. everyone coming out to makan until v late.. ahaha

next we were brought to this like bbq store... which sells smth like satay and some other stuff.. they sell u the food by like.. 1st chef cooks, waiter brings in the foodstuff chef cooks(usually in like at least a 100) then shouts at the top of his voice to ask who wants the food.. people will start asking the waiter to go to their table when they want the food... and so.. here are some tt we tried...

crazy girl: "spinning the 西安凉粉will make it taste better! =D"

西安凉粉.. abit like huge version of carrot cake..

big bbqed mutton

bbq beef stomach

plum juice to wash it all down

next we went to the 西安贾三灌汤包子馆, where they sell 汤包and other bao related stuff

really yummy 汤包.. full of soup and juicy meat..

八宝粥(8 gem porridge), sweet and sticky

八宝粥 + 凉拌面筋 (cold noodle salad)

not in picture( or the dish tt i forgot to take a pic of) is some 麻辣soup.... really really gd.... super gd in fact... one of my fav dishes.. hahaha

after the really huge meals, in the pretty cold night, we walked back home... to rest and get rdy for the next day.. in which we will visit 秦始皇's terracotta warriors... a must see for anyone who steps foot in 西安..