The last series of postings (16th July) were actually done when I was in Guangzhou China for training. It was a very long biz trip, with departing from Singapore on a Wednesday, and arriving back in Singapore the following Sat morning (10 days in all).
The hotel that we stayed at is actually run by my company. The place used to be a resort, but was probably not viable (poor location). The company tie up with the China government, to rent it at a good rate, and turn it into a traning facility of the company.
2 of us from my department went for this training. We were worried about the quality of a self run hotel. We were particularly worried about the standard of the room, the "wulu" location, and the food. The room turn out to be just ok, clean, comfortable, with clean and good bathroom. The only complain I have is that there is no fridge (mini bar). Most forigners' problem would be that there's only local TV channels.
Even the towels have company logo, haha:
The food was much better than we expected, cos the cook at the hotel is really quite good. The food was not oily nor salty, but instead was tasty and well done. Breakfast and lunch are buffet style, and dinner are from the ala carte menu. We took quite a lot of outide restaurant meals too (group dinners and weekends). Took us lots of self-control not to over-eat.
The restuarant where we had our breakfast, lunch and some dinners:
Buffet style for breakfast and lunch:
Spot the spelling error:
This was one of my breakfast:
Lunch - there's fried rice, but I picked white rice for healthier choice. Portion's controlled. The clear soup was quite good:
A la carte dinner. I ate pork chop on one occasion:
The cook, preparing creme brulee for us during one of the sit-down group dinners:
As for the "wulu" location, it was really really very "wulu". It is a resort, surrounded by mountains. The nearest small town is a 20mins drive away. This part of it, we mind a lot, cos we are really "shopaholic city girls", haha. We savour every opportunity that we can go out. We were worried about the weekends, but end up spending the whole weekend out of the hotel from as early as 7am to as late a 10pm!
The mountains surrounding our hotel:
Behind our hotel is a water catchment/dam:
On Saturday, the colleagues from Guangzhou took the 9 of us from other countries/regions for a full day tour. Visited "", then shopping at"", and then night view of Canton tower"". I'm quite touched by the hospitality. The most I do for my visitors was to bring them to dinner during weekends.
This place is full of individual shophouses that has different kinds of exhibits:
Famous shopping street in Guangzhou, with mixture of local and international brands:
Candy man:
Canton tower night sceen:
On Sunday, we went Hong Kong! 5 of us set off at 7am, took a 2 hour car (taxi) ride to Shenzhen, spent 1.5 hours to clear both customs, and then another 45mins MTR ride from LuoHu to downtown HK. So it was 11+am when we had brunch. A colleague from HK took us around that day. The cheap bowl of wanton noodles at a non-fancy but local favourtie stall that she brought us to is so much better than the others that I have eaten in HK (on free and easy trips) before.
We went to Victoria Harbour first, then to shopping in Sha Tian. As tourist I would of never go Sha Tian, but apparently that's where the local would go, and all the shops that the 5 of us wanted to go to can be found there. There wasn't much time to comb the whole shopping complex, but our main aim is to get out of the "wuluness", and get into the crowd, so we were happy enough.
Day view of Vic Harbour:
The Singapore girls:
On the last 2 days of our training, we went for plant tour. The Guang zhou plant employs more than 10k workers, and it provides hostel accomodation for employees. It is like a university town.
All suit up for plant tour:
Static check:
Production area:
One out of the 2 huge canteens:
7 blocks of hostels:
Like a university town/hdb estate:
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