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Shanghai - Yang Cheng - Beijing 12 Days and 11 Nights (with hotel reviews)

Planned itinerary from Shanghai to Beijing in 2019.  Here's a day by day for reference. Click on link for more details on the place of interest or the food.  Day 1: 17 DO:  Flight from Singapore to Shanghai. Arrival at 6 pm EAT:   Dinner at 蟹黄鱼面:  STAY:  Shanghai: Mercure Shanghai Yu Garden The rooms here are very modern rooms and new. Even the plugs come with usb ports for convenience. I love the mirror particularly as its a touch screen which you can turn on the light on the mirror and can set it to mist free.  But hard to get cabs to come here as the front of the hotel is actually a bicycle lane where no cars can come. Had a few instances where the cabs we ordered couldn't come in and they finally decide to cancel our car request.  Distance from mrt is also about 15 mins walk. Not ideal but will still come again as furnishing is very new and clean.  Day 2: 18 DO:  城隍庙, Shanghai Bund Daytime EAT:   Breakfa...

Food in Beijing (Recaps from 2019)

  清真黑窑厂街糖油饼 A bit of experiencing how local residents have their breakfast in the morning. It took abit of convincing from Mr H.  The  油饼  biscuit is well fried and very crispy. But the toufu nao taste odd. The toufu is nice but the sauce is like burnt with slight bitterness. T he place is a bit unsanitary if you consider fellow customers spitting on the floor as a sight to behold. Taste wise is not bad. But i lost my appetite after the spitting incident. >_<. 小大董   Dadong When in Beijing, the number one thing you must try is the Peking Duck. There are a couple of famous chain restaurants.  One is Da dong  小大董   The other is Four Seasons (my direct translation ) 四季民福 The condiments to pair with the peking duck is so much more.  If you are wondering what are this cherries.   Liver with shan za - very exquisite and It is actually molded to look like a cherry. But i didn't really like its taste though. This is somewhat like a tasting ...