This is a long overdue post. After the dreadful bus ride, we reached a small city in China call Zhuhai. Boy, how glad I was to alight from the bus. After savouring the fresh air in the busy Gongyun bus terminal for few minutes, I proceeded to hunt down my first real Chinese cuisine after 2 weeks of Vietnamese food. We ended up in a restaurant recommended by a friend from China. If not mistaken the Cantonese name of the restaurant is call “Sek San” or God of Eating or something like that. It is within a stone throw away from the bus terminal. I ordered ‘Siu Loong Pau’ and...

So far the longest bus ride I ever took is 15 hours overnight bus from PingXiang to Zhuhai in China. What so unique about the bus is it does not have any seats (except for the driver). All passengers get to sleep on a bed! If you think it is a good idea, actually it is not. See it for yourself. If you notice above everyone’s head, there is a plastic bag. In it is a pair of shoe. I tell you, you don’t want to smell a traveler’s shoe. It smells like kiam hu (salted fish) after hours of walking. There were like 40 over passengers in the bus that day. So imagine, 40 over of kiam...