Xiamen is a city I like very much. This city has tranquility, excitement, sea, and exquisite buildings. Perhaps Xiamen is not the most suitable city to play sea entertainment, but if you want to quietly look at the peaceful sea and listen to the sound of the sea in one place, Xiamen must be a very suitable place.
It's not the first time I've come to Xiamen. Xiamen's food and Xiamen's exquisiteness always have reason to attract me here, stay in a daze, and spend a lot of time here. When I came to Xiamen this time, I didn't have many clear destinations. I just wanted to see the beauty of Xiamen again. I just wanted to be in a daze here again and feel the comfort here. D1 Guangzhou-Xiamen In fact, due to the opening of the Guangzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway, it has become more and more convenient to get to Xiamen. Maybe three days will be enough to get a quick tour of the city. I also chose the high-speed train to go to Xiamen. I can arrive in Xiamen after departing in the morning and in the afternoon. Xiamen has two railway stations: Xiamen Station and Xiamen North Railway Station. Xiamen Station is located in the center of Xiamen City and is very convenient for the next journey.
This time I went to Xiamen and booked the hotel at Le Meridien Hotel. When I visited Xiamen before, I might book hotels on Gulangyu Island, or I might choose hotels in Zengcuo 'an because these places are more lively. But the hotel I chose this time was Le Meridien on Mount Xianyue. Xianyue Mountain is a common choice for hiking and shopping on weekends in Xiamen. It is located in the center of Xiamen City, only about 20 minutes 'drive from Xiamen Station and about 10 minutes' drive from Dongdu Wharf to Gulangyu Island. It is very convenient. However, Xianyue Mountain, located in downtown Xiamen, is completely devoid of noise. Although you live here, you can also live in the center of the city, the tranquility of this downtown area is the most rare.
The hotel is located in Xianyue Mountain Park, where you can directly see the beautiful scenery of Xiamen city and watch the plane fly low and fly over the city. This kind of scenery is the most beautiful.
The rooms of Le Meridien Xiamen are divided into two parts: the main building and the villas. The villas are scattered on the top of the mountain and surrounded by the main building, making them very comfortable.
For the Le Meridien brand, there is no need to worry about the quality of the room. Whether it is the room in the main building or the room in the villa, it is very comfortable.
This time I chose to live in a villa. Through the window of the room, I could see patches of bamboo forest. The breeze blew through the bamboo forest. This scene was peaceful and leisurely.
The room has a balcony. Sitting on the balcony, making a cup of green tea, and feeling the breeze blowing through your skin, this afternoon is simple and bright.
The details of the room are also excellent enough. The bathroom is designed to separate dry and wet, and is also equipped with a large bathtub. Taking a bath in the room at night is also a spiritual and physical relaxation for the journey. When afternoon tea arrived, it was not yet time for dinner, so I simply went to the hotel lobby and ordered afternoon tea to enjoy my leisure time.
The hotel's lobby bar is divided into two parts: indoor and outdoor. If you want a more comfortable location, the indoor part will definitely meet this need. The big sofa can even be paralyzed directly, which can make people very relaxed.
The outdoor part is located in the atrium of the hotel. Sitting outside, you can see the sun and green trees, and you can see the gurgling water in the atrium. The scenery is excellent.
Of course, the afternoon tea here did not disappoint me. Dim sum is mainly fruity as the theme and is a perfect match for the still slightly hot weather. The refreshing taste of the fruit makes the desserts not too greasy. It is paired with coffee or summer specialties to make the afternoon in the sun particularly comfortable. For dinner, Le Meridien Hotel Chinese Restaurant did not go out for dinner, so he directly chose to eat in the hotel's Chinese restaurant.
The decoration of the Chinese restaurant is quite elegant and exquisite, with red as the main color of the decoration, with a strong Chinese style and very elegant. Sitting in the dining room, drinking a cup of green tea, and waiting for the table to be served became gentle and without a feeling of impatience. Of course, here, exquisite dishes are equally attractive and satisfying. Moreover, the dishes here use the cooking method of combining Cantonese cuisine with Southern Fujian cuisine, retaining the original flavor of the food and being very delicious. cold dishes
Opening your appetite with cold dishes seems to always be the most suitable thing. The beef is tough and when paired with sauces and seasonings, the slightly spicy taste is very refreshing. Blueberries, yams, blueberry soft waxy, coupled with a refreshing sweet and sour blueberry sauce, it is very beautiful as a childhood snack. Yunnan Tricholoma matsutake mustard and bamboo sheng chicken soup to boil small elephant mussel
Cantonese people like to drink soup. All kinds of soups are always indispensable to every meal. A cup of sweet soup can always make the appetite open. The soup is stewed with Yunnan matsutake and local chicken to make the soup base, and then add sweet and refreshing bamboo sheng and mustard greens to make it more refreshing, fresh and sweet. Finally, add the little geoduck and heat it until cooked. The little geoduck is refreshing and sweet, and the whole soup is very fresh and sweet. Eat two big tiger shrimps
Double eating means one ingredient that is processed using two different cooking methods. The tiger shrimp is refreshing, fresh and sweet, is very large and has a lot of shrimp meat. There are two different cooking methods for tiger shrimp shrimp head and shrimp meat. The shrimp meat is cooked in a fragrant frying method. After frying with open fire, the shrimp meat is more refreshing and firmer. Shrimp head and pepper salt are also very delicious. Cooking conch in flames
The conch is fresh, sweet and refreshing. After slicing, it is put back into the shell. When served, it will look great. Sea salt was used as the base and the flame was lit when serving. The taste of sea salt penetrated into the snail meat, which was very fresh, sweet and delicious. Volcanic stone porcini mushroom fried party
I just heard that the name "Pai Pai Run" is unclear. In fact, this lovely name means pig in southern Fujian. The pig ran on the ground, so it got this lovely name. Volcanic stone can heat the ingredients evenly, so the meat is tender and tender, and the slightly charred surface will not harden the meat. Add the boletus, and the rich aroma of the boletus penetrates into the pork, making it very delicious. Roasted silver cod with flowers stuffed with okra and green onions
Baihua stuffing is a well-known and widely used ingredient in Cantonese cuisine. It is made of pork and shrimp meat into a gelatinous state. It is refreshing, fresh and sweet, and it also reflects the chef's mind and patience. The flower filling is stuffed into the okra and fried until fragrant. The soft okra and the refreshing flower filling are very good. The silver cod is roasted with green onions. The surface is scorched and the inside is fresh. With the aroma of green onions, it is very irritating. Stone pot Sanbao noodles
Stone pot is a vessel often liked to hold ingredients in Cantonese cuisine. The stone pot has a thermal insulation effect, allowing the ingredients to remain at sufficient temperature after being served. The soup base is boiled with precious ingredients such as abalone, sea cucumber, and flower glue. The soup base is thick and delicious. The noodles are served separately and mixed into the soup base to retain the refreshing taste.
The chef's thoughts and skills can also be seen in the preparation of other dishes in the restaurant. A delicious dinner can always make the journey beautiful and moving. Just staying here at night and enjoying a delicious meal is also an indispensable enjoyment during the journey. It was still early in the hotel lobby bar at night, and I didn't want to return to my room early, so I went to the hotel lobby bar and ordered a cocktail.
Sparkling cocktails are added with peel and are very refreshing to drink in summer.
At night, the lights in the lobby bar are slightly dim, but the atmosphere is right. The resident band sang old songs here, and the dim lights built up the colorful and psychedelic night here. D2 Xianyue Mountain Trail Hotel Lunch Gulangyu Buffet Dinner
During my vacation, I always like to sleep until I wake up naturally. After all, traveling and vacations are a very enjoyable thing. Sleeping until you wake up naturally is naturally an important thing during vacation.
Enjoying a hearty breakfast at the hotel, the day was full of energy and the aroma of coffee and bread. I set the first trip of the day on the Xianyue Mountain Trail near the hotel. Compared with other tourist attractions in Xiamen, Xianyue Mountain Trail is not very famous, but this trail is very popular among local people. Walking here, you can see the beautiful scenery of Xiamen. Walking along the trail is also a process of seeing the scenery of Xiamen along the road.
There are dense trees on both sides of the trail and lots of shade. Walking on the trail is also very shady.
At the end of the trail is the earth temple. In myth, the land has the responsibility of protecting the peace of the place. So there will always be many local believers coming here to pray for peace and success.
In front of the Tudi Gong Temple is a golden sunflower field. The brilliant sunflowers form a golden sea in the sun, which is particularly bright. Lunch, hotel Chinese restaurant dim sum lunches are eaten directly in the hotel Chinese restaurant. The Chinese restaurant here serves a dim sum buffet every noon, and many Xiamen people also come here to taste delicious dim sum.
Barbecue pork pork is the most common food in Cantonese cuisine. The seemingly simple roast pork is not easy to cook well. After all, it is not easy to make the meat soft, fragrant and not greasy. From material selection to heat, there is no need. The barbecued pork here is a high-quality product that is not greasy and delicious enough.
Pineapple buns If you want to choose a representative dim sum from Hong Kong tea restaurants, then pineapple buns must be on the list. In Hong Kong's well-known animated film "McDull", pineapple buns appear many times. The pineapple buns here are soft enough, with fragrant meringue and smooth butter sandwiched in the middle, which adds to the taste and delicacy of the pineapple buns.
Once upon a time, Guangzhou's teahouse "Phoenix Claw Ribs" could almost be regarded as the two kings of the tea market. Chicken feet are actually chicken feet. In Cantonese dim sum, purple gold sauce and fermented bean are added to make it. The chicken feet skin has been steamed until soft, and the aroma of the sauce has completely penetrated into it. Put it on the tip of the tongue and gently suck it, and you can inhale the delicious chicken feet skin into your mouth.
The other snacks in the restaurant are also very delicious. In fact, making snacks also requires mind and patience. The hundreds of flowers fillings of shrimp dumplings and the layers of egg tart skins all cost the effort of the snack master. Here, snacks are exquisite and delicious, and paired with a cup of green tea. Whether it is for eating or enjoying delicious food, whether it is to kill time or enjoy time, it is a good choice. In the afternoon, Shapowei is offshore from Xiamen, so there are also many safe havens here. With the passage of time, many of the safe havens have been abandoned, but some have become unique attractions with the passage of time.
Shapowei is such a place. Perhaps there was once a scene of thousands of sails competing for current here, but on sunny days, only a few small boats were parked in the port here. But here, the unique customs are equally touching.
Next to Shapowei are old houses in Xiamen. These houses have been renovated by their owners, glowing with new brilliance.
The exterior walls of the building were painted in different colors or painted in different colors according to the owner's preferences. These paintings may not be exquisite, but with the owner's mood and preferences, these paintings seem to have different beautiful and colorful stories. In fact, you don't need to have too much purpose to play in Shapowei. Stop when you want to stop, either because of the cute cat, or because of a cup of fragrant coffee, you just sit there and look at it. In a prosperous haven, on such an afternoon, the sun is gentle. Huandao Road Xiamen is actually an island. All the charming scenery is the beauty of the island's buildings and customs and the sea. Huandao Road surrounds Xiamen, and the most beautiful part is undoubtedly the part from Nanputuo to the Convention and Exhibition Center.
The very famous Xiamen University and Zengcuo 'an are all located in this section. In addition to places such as Hulishan Fort and Calligraphy Square, this section of the roundabout road can be said to be full of beautiful scenery.
Walk around here casually, stop and stop. On one side, there are layers of waves in the sea, and on the other side are exquisite buildings, flowers and green trees. Walking on the white plank road by the sea, the sea breeze blows, and many newcomers are taking wedding photos on the beach. It is also a unique scenery to freeze their happy moments in the blue sky and sea here. Dinner Le Meridien buffet I returned to Le Meridien in the evening and enjoyed the buffet here.
The buffet at Le Meridien is very rich, with a variety of fresh seafood as well as a variety of hot dishes with exquisite cooking. Seafood must be indispensable in star-rated hotel buffets. The types and quantities of seafood for cold dishes can often experience the quality of a buffet.
There are a wide selection of cold dishes here, including sea shrimp, conch, swimming crab, and pipa shrimp. What I have to mention is Pipa shrimp. Pipa shrimp has always been a high-end ingredient. Pipa shrimp, which looks quite strange in appearance, is actually very fresh and sweet in meat and cannot be missed.
In addition to cold meats seafood, sashimi also offers high-end fish such as salmon and tuna, which are very fresh.
When I came here, it was the golden autumn season, and this time was also the fattest season for hairy crabs. There will also be a hairy crab to each guest who comes here. The fat hairy crab paste is golden and full. In addition to the sweet crab paste, the crab meat is also very firm and sweet.
The hot dishes here are also quite exquisite, with different flavors of swimming crabs, crayfish, steak and other ingredients available. There is also abalone soaked in rice. The abalone juice is rich and the abalone is refreshing. It is excellent when paired with rice. In addition, two small abalone are put into each piece of abalone rice, which is available in unlimited quantities!
Last but not to miss is the sumptuous desserts here. Serve a cake and finally have a glass of Hagendas ice cream. The expensive Hagendas ice cream is also available in unlimited quantities here. D3 Gulangyu Island-The last day after leaving Xiamen was assigned to Gulangyu Island here.
Although I have been to Gulangyu many times, this place always gives me the impulse and expectation to come here again and again to taste it. Maybe at a corner here, maybe in a crack in the wall here, a flower that breaks out of the ground, and a singer singing on the roadside can bring touching and beautiful memories.
Gulangyu Island is also called Qindao. Almost every household here has a piano. Every night, the melodious piano sound will ring everywhere on the island and will fly in every corner of the island. This is also a characteristic of Gulangyu Island.
So on Gulangyu, the Piano Museum is also the first place that is very famous. The Piano Museum is located in Shuzhuang Garden, which was once a villa for wealthy people on the island. It is located by the sea and has a unique flavor.
Because Le Méridien hotels in every city cooperate with a local cultural project, and Le Méridien hotels in Xiamen cooperate with the Piano Museum, Le Méridien's room card can be exchanged for two tickets to Shuzhuang Garden. Walking into Shuzhuang Garden, you can see the small bridge built on the sea, the villas by the sea, and the rockery and running water. It is very exquisite.
Of course, there is also the Piano Museum inside. There are countless pianos in the museum, all made by masters. The origin of the piano will be posted next to each piano. There is an introduction from the master who made it. Maybe I don't understand piano, but I will also be shocked by the artistic feeling here.
Leave Shuzhuang Garden and continue to stroll around Gulangyu. In fact, you don't need to have too many purposes to stroll around Gulangyu. Walking around here casually, every building and tree inside has its own story.
Tired from shopping, I happened to arrive at the Wormhole Bookstore, so I simply stopped and read books here, drink tea, and enjoy my leisure time in Xiamen.
The Wormhole Bookstore has always been a very famous bookstore on Gulangyu Island. The Wormhole Bookstore was converted from an old villa, and the style of the villa still retains the style of the villa. The characteristics of these old buildings travel through time and have no decadent flavor. However, there is a kind of beauty that is always new.
In addition to books, there are many exquisite decorations in the store, which are also worth playing with carefully.
On the second floor of the bookstore is the installation exhibition of Love in Gulangyu. The installation exhibition is very interesting and each installation has interactive elements. The big light ball in the middle is actually a Timeline. You can enter your birth date into the computer and see the major events that have happened in Gulangyu in your life. The installations in each room are also combined with celebrities who have left footprints on Gulangyu, allowing visitors here to see the history and lives of those celebrities. Holding the handle of the umbrella, you can see the story of Lin Qiaozhi becoming a doctor who delivered countless children. You can see the story of Lin Yutang and his wife. You can see the story of John Ma who formed the Tsinghua football team and created a strong sports atmosphere at Tsinghua University. The story of John Ma (in the movie "No Questions West East", there is also John Ma's story).
Finally, I returned to the first floor and tasted an exquisite afternoon tea snack. There were elderly singers performing here in the courtyard. Watching the sunset slowly set, the flavor of Gulangyu was concentrated in a cup of green tea.
Coming to the seaside of Gulangyu Island in the evening and looking at Xiamen, there is a unique feeling.
Watching the sunset dye the Red Sea and watching Xiamen go from the beginning of the lanterns to the bright lights, it is also a scenery that cannot be missed on Gulangyu. There are many more beautiful things written in Xiamen at the end, and there are also many more beautiful and comfortable things like Le Meridien.
Le Meridien also has a comfortable swimming pool, an outdoor children's playground, and an executive lounge that serves a variety of drinks and desserts. Maybe I missed something during this trip, just like I haven't seen egrets in Xiamen, I haven't seen fireflies in Xiamen, but here, it's worth coming here again and tasting the scenery, beauty, and taste here again.
