I wanted to visit Garden Hotel cause when we first visited Guangzhou in 1986, we stayed in this hotel but this trip I did not stay at Garden Hotel cause I wanted to stay near Pearl River and also the hotel was cheaper over there hahaha.
So much changes, the streets are so much cleaner and not dusty and gone are the hundreds of big black bicycles, they can now afford luxury cars and traffic jam is now a common sight.
I cannot recognized the interior of Garden Hotel anymore except for the reception area. The big beautiful panel at the reception is still the same while everywhere in the hotel had gone for major renovation.
We had dim sum lunch (very late lunch) at Garden Hotel.
Not much choices of dim sum left cause we were very late almost 2 pm. We check out of our hotel Canton Landmark at 1 pm and left our luggage at the hotel's lobby for safekeeping as our flight was about midnight and took the metro to Taojin Metro Station to Garden Hotel (very convenient - the station was just infront of Garden Hotel).
First time I had this deep fried har gow
Deep fried spring roll
Steam har gow
BBQ pork bao (Char Siew Bao)
Glutinous Rice wrapped in lotus leaves
Siew Mai
The dim sum dont costs much but the tea was expensive. Do check the different type of tea. We had chrysathemum tea at CNY25 per person although they come in a pot they counted as per head but have free refill to the teapot. They have even more expensive tea. Do ask for the tea menu if unsure what to order.
There's a 15% service charge to the bill.
The dim sum looks so yummy! Thanks for visiting my blog. Happy Pink Saturday! ~Marti
ReplyDeleteI can still remember the big panel of Garden Hotel too. Thanks for sharing. I have not been back to Guangzhou since 2003. It really looks different. Used to stay in Tianhe area while I was working there.
ReplyDeleteThe dim sum was very good and price reasonable but careful when ordering the tea, check the price first, the count per head instead of per pot of tea.
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