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This article is about the China vacations and Beijing travel. You can find some useful information in it if you are planning your Beijing travel now.

The Thai food is lots of people’s favourite food and you can find many good Thai restaurants in Beijing. If you are not very familiar with the menus in Thai restaurants, you can try the house specails. They are the dishes recommended by the Thai chef and you will not be disappointed with them.

1. Red Basil Thai Restaurant:
Address: 8 Xinyuanli Nanxiaojiejia Street, Beijing.
How to get here: Take the Line 403, 302 or 300 city bus to the station named “Niuwangmiao”.
Capacity: 100 people.
House specials: Thai fried prawn cutlets (60 rmb), Thai hot and sour soup (40 rmb), Thai fried fish cutlets (60 rmb), Thai ginger flavor chicken soup ( 40 rmb ).
Some comments: One of my friends said that the Red Basil Thai Restaurant is the best Thai restaurant in Beijing. In my point of view, this restaurant is not a bad choice for a Thai food fan but it is a little bit expensive. This restaurant has been in good business for a long time now. It is close to the Nanyin Mansion and Yansha Mansion. The good location helps it to attracts more and more customers.

2. Water Lily (Hehua) Thai Restaurant:
Address: Guomao Center West SB124A, Beijing.
Tel: 65055386.
Capacity: 50 people.
House specials: Curry dishes (48 rmb), Thai hot and sour shrimp soup (66 rmb).
Some comments: You can find the native Thai food here and the delivery service is also available here (with reasonable price).

3. Saigon Inn:
Address: Gloria Plaza Hotel, Chaoyang districe, Beijing.
Capacity: 108 people.
House specials: Red Lion-head with Single Narial Bouquet (48 rmb), The peacock spreads its tail feathers (298 rmb), Sixiwanzi (98 rmb).

4. Asian Star Restaurant:
Address: 26 Dongsanhuanbeilu Street, Chaoyang district, Beijing.
Capacity: 150 people.
House specials: Kashao Tofu (28 rmb), Indian Ka Chicken (35 rmb), Masalaka (35 rmb).  ( more info about the China vacations, Beijing flights and Lhasa travel at Travel2ChinaInfo Dot COM )

5. Panqumei Thai Restaurant (South-east Asian Dishes, sea food):
Address: 25 Xiaoyunlu Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
How to get here: Take the Line 300 city bus to the station named “Jingxin Mansion”.
Capacity: 40 – 50 people.

6. Changtaiyuan Thai Restaurant (South-east Asian Dishes):
Address: 8 Fangzhuanglu Street, Fengtai District, Beijing.
How to get here: Take the Line 63, 12, 112, 52 to the station named “Fangzhuang”.
Capacity: 120 people.
House specials: Curry Chicken (30 rmb for the small dish and 40 rmb for the big dish), Xianglanye Fried Chicken (38 – 48 rmb), Hot and sour shrimp soup (68 – 88 rmb), Thaizhishadie (39 – 45 rmb).
Comments: The food here is the native Thai food and all the spices are from Thailand. The chef here is one of the top 10 Thai food chefs in Thailand. This place is your good choice if you wanna have some real Thai food in Beijing. ( Useful info for your China vacations if you are a Thai food fan.    )

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This article is an introduction of the West Lake(Xihu) in Hangzhou, China. The West Lake is a famous place for the tourists from all over the world. You can find some helpful information in this article if you are planning your China vacations now.

In Hangzhou, everyone knows the West Lake and the Hangzhouers are very proud of the beautiful lake. Here are the notable spots of the West Lake:
1. Lonely mountain(Gushan): It is located in the north west of the West Lake. This mountain is surrounded by water and is the best place to see the beautiful scenes of the West Lake. You can see Wenlange, Xihutianxiajin, Xilengyinshe, Qiujinmu, Fangheting here and the ticket price is 5 rmb. The Hangzhou You 1, You 2 and You 3 bus can take you here(name of the bus stop is Xilengqiao).

2. Broken bridge(Duanqiao): It is located in the east of the West Lake. The name of this spot comes from a famous Chinese novel. It is the place where the Xuxian and Bailiangzhi(male lead and female lead of this novel) met. You can take the 807, You 1 and You 2 bus here(the name of the bus stop is Duanqiao).

3. Spring Dawn at Su Causeway: It’s a 2.8 km. long boulevard cutting across the south-north scenic area, and lined with trees and flowering plants. When Spring comes with crimson peach blossoms and green willows; the scenery is all the more charming. Strolling along the boulevard, one feels as if the West Lake were wakening in dawn mist. Young willows were ethereal, spring breeze so caressing, and birds were chirping in unison. In the south of the Spring Dawn at Su Causeway, it is the Sudongpo(a famous ancient Chinese poet) museum.(ticket price is 2 rmb)
To get here, you can take the K4, 308, 504, You 1, You 2, You 3, You 5 bus to the stop “Suti”.
Tips: Spring Dawn at Su Causeway is a must see for your West Lake travel. Walking along the West Lake here will be a very good experience for your China vacations.

4. Tiger-running Spring: The legend goes that two tights ran there and made a hole where a spring gushed out. The Longjing Tea and the Tiger-running Spring water are always reputed as the “Two Wonders of the West Lake”.
It is located in the Dinghui temple and you can feel the unique “Spring Culture” here.(ticket price is 15 rmb)
To get here, you can take the K4, 308, 504 or You 5 bus to the stop “Hupao”.

5. The Lingyin Monastery and Flying Mount: The Lingyin Monastery is located in the west of the West Lake. The Flying Mount(Feilaifeng) is named as “a major national cultural relic”. (ticket price is 20 rmb for the Lingyin Monastery and 15 rmb for the Flying Mount). You can take the 7, 807, You 1, You 2 and You 4 bus here.(stop name for the bus is “Lingyin”)

6. The Moon Reflected in Three Pools: “There are islands in the lake and three are lake on the islands.” The three stone towers were first built in Yuanyou 4th year (1089) of the Song Dynasty, with the wonderful scenery of “one moon in the sky having three reflection in the lake”, it is one of the wonderful scenes of the West Lake. You can get here from any dock of the West Lake and the cost is 20 rmb for the transportation.

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This article is about the China vacations and Qingdao travel. You can find some useful information in it if you are planning your Qingdao travel now.

Qingdao, best known in the West by its postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city in eastern Shandong province, China. Qingdao today is a major seaport and industrial center of Shandong province. “Qing” means “lush” in Chinese, while “dao” means “island”. This city was recently named China’s 9th-most livable city by the China Daily.
 
German fort at Qingdao in 1898. In 1891 the Qing government decided to make the area a defense base against naval attack and eventually began to improve Tsingtao’s existing fortifications. This Chinese activity was observed and reported by German naval officials during a formal survey of Kiautschou Bay in May 1897. After the Tsingtao region was ceded to Germany in 1898, the German authorities soon turned Tsingtao into a strategically important port administered by the Imperial Department of the Navy (Reichsmarineamt) rather than the Imperial Colonial Office (Reichskolonialamt). The navy based their Far East Squadron here, allowing them to conduct operations throughout the Pacific. From January 1898 the marines of III. Seebatallion were based at Tsingtao. The German imperial government planned and built the first streets and institutions of the city we see today, introduced electrification, a sewer system and a safe drinking water supply; commercial interests established the world-famous Tsingtao Brewery. German influence extended to other areas of Shandong Province, including the establishment of diverse commercial enterprises.

Eat:
The Beer Street is very famous in Qingdao. It is located in the Dengzhoulu Street ( close to the Tsingtao Brewery). This street is not a broad one but you can find lots of good restaurants and bars here. I recommend the Meidaer Barbecue. Lots of people like this restaurant. The price is reasonable and the service here is not bad. You can find the unique plasmogen beer here ( only 30 rmb for a mug of beer ). The Tsingtao Brewery provides fresh plasmogen beer to the restaurants in this Beer Street every day and this is why the beer you can get here tastes so good. (good info for your China vacations)

See:
(1). The Eight critical junction (Badaguan) of Qingdao was built by the German and you can find all kinds of architectures here: Russian, German, Japanese, etc.
Eight critical junction ( Badaguan ) fine scenery, attracted the numerous new people to come here to photograph the nuptial dress to illuminate, the blue tree, the sand beach, the villa, the beautiful woman, formed a nice contrast, too beautiful to behold, caused that the pedestrian poured the foot in abundance.
There are many famous villas here but now the only one villa open to the travellers is the Huashilou (flower and stone villa). The cost is 5 rmb. You can see the beautiful beach and sea from this place. To get here, you can take the Line 15, 26, 202, 228 city buses (helpful info for your China vacations).

(2). Qingdao Beer Museum: It is a very interesting place in Qingdao. You can take the Line 15 city bus here. The cost is 50 rmb. Why so expensive? Because you can have free beers in it,   In this museum, you can see lots of pictures about the history and producton of the Tsingtao beer. I like the old TV advertisements here. In one advertisement, it said that the Tsingtao beer can cure the beriberi.

Some tips for your Qingdao travel:
(1). Qingdao is a city near the mountain and you will not find many people riding bikes ( like other cities in China) here. The public transportation systems are very convinient in Qingdao. Not like other crowded Chinese cities, it is easy to find seats in the Qingdao’s city buses (costs only 1 rmb for one person).

(2). The flag-fall price of the taxicab here is 7 rmb and you will need to pay 1.2 rmb for every kilometer.

(3). A Qingdao map can be very helpful for you. (especailly for the first time travellers to Qingdao)

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