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- The Canton Tower, among the tallest in the world.
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- The south bank of the Pearl River.
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- Some of Guangzhou’s modern architecture is spectacular too.
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- I SAID it’s the Year of the MONKEY!
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- All of Guangzhou used to be streets like this.
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- Fresh pork! How fresh? Oh you have NO idea.
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- Shangxiajiu pedestrian-only shopping street.
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- I HOPE this was a Cantonese Opera Theatre. I don’t read enough Mandarin to know.
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- This is black sesame seed paste, which is them made into soup!
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- Black sesame and cashew soup. Liquid cashew butter. That is all.
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- A stall selling only Durian fruit. You think they look scary? I crossed the street because of the SMELL.
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- Fresh chicken! How fresh? Well!
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- What’re YOU doing here?!
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- Koala Parking!
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- A statue of a little boy trying to help his grandpa set off fireworks.
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- Down this tiny street…
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- …are little things…
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- …I’m guessing most people wouldn’t see.
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- Want to buy a mushroom the size of a coffee table?
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- The old and the new.
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- For my first breakfast I tried congee. It’s rice porridge, and mine also had bits of meat and seafood. I admit, I didn’t care for it.
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- THESE, however, are steamed pork buns. MORE.
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- WANT.
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- Inside the White Swan Hotel back on Shamian Island.
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- Inside The White Swan.
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- Inside The White Swan.
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- Want a bullfrog? Yours for ¥28,000!
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- Please see the Buzzfeed videos below for further info on the contents of my minibar. The green one top left is Get 27. The one bottom left is Bai Jiu.
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- East meets West.
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- Oh for God’s sake.
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- Motorway spaghetti.
