Ron Mertens’ blog

Here’s a short list of Chengdu’s top attractions (according to us, anyway):

• The Pandas, of course
• There are several nice renovated streets in Chengdu. We loved Jin Li, Qin-Tai and the 3 alleys near our home.
• Parks – there are several great parks in Chengdu. Huan-Hua-Xi (near DuFu), the parks near Qin-Tai, Yongling, Tazishan (with the beautiful birds-cage)
• The arts and curios market
• The giant Buddha of Leshan (about a 2 hours drive from Chengdu, but a beautiful place!)
• Getting a hair-cut and massage
• Visiting computer-street and those crazy huge ‘computer markets’
• Wenshu temple

And here’s a list of our favorite restaurants. Obviously this will mean nothing to you, because we don’t know the names of most of them. But still:

• Our ‘home’ restaurant, on the corner opposite to the TCM University’s back gate. There was even a waiter that knows a bit of english!
• The nice restaurant next to the ‘home’ one, where they had great fried potatoes and Japanese Tofu
• The bookworm – a very pleasant place, with good food and lot’s of things for Abigail to play with
• Tandoor – the best restaurant in town, excellent north-Indian cuisine
• Dodo’s cafe
• Street food – Bao Tze, Xing-Ren Tang, Sweet potatoes, Brown boiled eggs and corn
• The restaurant just across the street from us – nice food (the potatoes were good) and a bowl of living roaches (or crabs, or whatever) that Abigail liked to talk to, and the locals liked to eat
• The new restaurant in Xian-Nan-Lu (just near the piano shop)
• Hotpot at Changshun upper street
• Ramon’s fancy place, across the university
• The yellow ‘sterile’ restaurant in Xian-Nan-Lu (where Esti and Lea liked to eat)

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