Back from China, Shandong

Last week, I went to China for 3 days, for my very first business trip. To be specific, I visited Yantai , Shandong province.

Yantai is considered to be a 3rd tier city, with a population of ONLY 3 million ++. To be a 1st tier city in China, the city gotta have a population of more than 10 million, 2nd tier city à between 5 to 9 million and a 3rd tier cityà less than 5 million loh.

Hmmm… is Singapore a 3rd tier city then? No lah… Singapore is not part of China mah!

*Bo Liao*

Anyway, business trip went well except for the very last day, which I suffered from food poisoning. Woah… must be the fried scorpions, fried roaches and 1 fried silk worm cocoon which I ate. I took pictures of those insects before I crunched them in my mouth. I’ll have to upload to the web once I got the chance… One of the roaches, which I named “Xiao Qiang” is extremely tasty!

Yup, I am so proud of myself that I actually tried those “exotic” foods. They did not taste that bad, except for the silk worm cocoon. The cocoon was too “squishy” and tasted really weird. As for the scorpions and roaches, they were pretty yummy… aiyah, all fried food taste yummy to me.

And I visited my very first Wal-mart in China. Very different from the Wal-marts in the U.S. Well… you cannot find live soft-shell turtles in U.S Wal-marts. Not even as pets. Those turtles were sold as FOOD in the China Wal-mart!

All in all, it was a fulfilling trip as I got to learn more about China’s consumer habits.

I can’t wait for my Shanghai trip in Oct!

1st tier city leh…