2009年7月13日 星期一

二访山塘Re-Visit Shang-Tang Street

Saturday evening we visited Shang Tang Old Street Close to Shi-Lu District. We had visited there last winter during the day time. Last time we took a wrong entrance at Hu-Qiu (虎丘) instead of Shi-Lu(石路), and that took us more than 1 hour walking to arrive this most popular and noisy place.
The special part about Shang Tang Street is its stores and the red lanterns hanging on every store. The Stores sell Su-fans, traditional Chinese toys, costumes, and slippers, decorated dried gourds, and silk. There is also one traditional Ping-Tan Show Stage with singers and Chinese music players singing and playing music to the public for free. Shang Tang Street is long, however the exhibiting part of the street is short. Thus it is recommended for busy or lazy travelers to pay a short and quick visit After walking out of Shang-Tang Street, we ate in a very old-style restaurant called The Big Second Raw-fried Bun Store (大阿二生煎). It is called raw fried bun store, because the buns are fried on the pan right after they are fermented, which is different from the common way of steaming or baking them. The store workers were friendly and old fashioned. And because everything was so old fashioned, we were a bit worried about the hygiene part of the food and service. So We took some stomach pills to make ourselves feel safe after we got home.




Stores along water ways




The street was paved with stone bricks




Ping-Tang Show Stage





老店 大阿二生煎 Raw-fried Bun Store





The Lantern on bun store's ceiling




Raw-fried buns





花豆腐(鹹豆花)-比我在园区吃到的还好吃哦!





虽然店面看起来很特色但老舊,客人不多。

不过地方老手艺还是值得一甞,回到家吃个胃药就放心了。

Enjoy the food as long as you remember to take pills afterwards.



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