In a bid to get some pampering after a hectic but oh so lovely wedding this year, Lyn (my boo) and I took a short trip to Shenzhen and Macau in early January. Shenzhen is one of our favourite destination with affordable (cheap more like it) massages and seafood. Nevermind that Lyn has only been there three times and me twice, but we somehow have always seem to discover hidden gems as we venture deeper into the charming city.
If you so happen to pop by Shenzhen for work or leisure, do plan to have one of your meals in a street called Le(4) Yuan(2) (please excuse the pinyin, I’m not too familiar writing it in Mandarin). To us, Le Yuan is a bustling street with seafood restaurants at both sides with tanks upon tanks of live fish and long rows of shell fish. Having visited Le Yuan about 10 times during the course of our visits, we could easily brush aside touts looking out for tourists like us and make our way to one of the many preferred restaurants in our list.
Left: Take your time to select your seafood outside the restaurant | Right: We are not great fans of how animals are kept there, but yeah there are loads to choose from ranging from pigeons to rabbits and snakes
Great variety aside, Lyn and I are constantly amazed at how affordable seafood can be in comparison to Singapore. For a mere $35 per couple, we could order a few dishes including bamboo clams (my favourite), oysters, braised pork, vegetables, king prawns and even some beer. Here’s some of what we happily devoured during our trip there:
Left: Some herbal soup | Right: braise pork belly and intestines
Left: Salt and pepper prawn | Right: Spinach with century egg
Left: Bamboo Clams (yums) | Right: Scallops
Left: Steamed fish | Right: Conch
Left: Sea urchin | right: Steamed prawns
Kingway beer..not bad actually
More photos in my Flickr album here.
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Hi, would be able to give some names of the seafood restauramts you visited especially the place with the sea urchin ^^ Will be visiting shenzhen in Dec and doing some research atm. Thanks!