Tea House

Snacks in Suzhou

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September 16th 2011
Suzhou was amazing. Superman Tom booked us a few days there for my birthday. We stayed in the older more tourist-oriented area on pingjianglu with cobbled streets full of tea shops and canals (we even got serenaded whilst punting!). The main central shopping streets are just as modern as Hangzhou, with all the usual fast food places and restaurants, but it’s just not quite as built up, which was ... read more

Asia » China

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more