1 Day in Xiamen： Must Visit and Must Eat ｜ China Travel Vlog 🇨🇳

Did you know that there is an island in China where cars are not allowed? Yes, this island is called Kulangyu and it is located in Xiamen city in China. But Kulangyu isn't the only unique place. Xiamen is full of interesting things to see and do. Today, we will explore Xiamen island and show you everything this city has to offer. So, let's start with the famous Meishan Temple. Good morning from Xiamen in Fujian province in China. This city is the most famous city in Fujian province and today, we're going to take you around the city to show you where to go, what to eat and also where to shop in Xiamen because who doesn't love shopping in China. And we're going to start at the most famous temple here, the Meishan Temple. Despite being one of the most popular temples here in Xiamen, there's not much people around and we find mostly locals. That's because Xiamen is not very touristy yet. So, if you come to Xiamen and you went to like Chongqing, Chengdu or you went to Zhangjiajie, you will find Xiamen very very peaceful but you still have the nuance and the feeling of being in China. I'm so impressed by the architecture of Meishan Temple. Even the gates here is carved in great detail and I don't know, it looks so beautiful. And also the roofs, the colors and everything. It makes me feel like, wow, this place is such a wonder. And plus, they have these roads with these colorful lanterns and it's not the usual red Chinese lantern. This one has a few colors, kind of remind me of the ones in Korea but it's different. It's a whole new, but it's kind of different. So, a little bit so you know. So, this is where you pray. You can kneel here if you want but if you don't, you can just stand here. And usually, people will give donations and if you see here, there's a barcode. You can scan this with Alipay or WeChat Pay and then you can donate money to this temple or you can also put cash. But I think it's very interesting that you can actually do by WeChat Pay. It's like very futuristic despite you're in a temple. And you can light up, I don't know what it's called, like the burn thing if you want to pray. If you don't, it's okay too. And if you want to get closer, you can actually go inside the temple but you have to take off your shoes. After the temple tour, it is time for us to head to the city and enjoy the view of this beautiful place. Since Xiamen is located in the coastal area of China, of course, we need to enjoy the beach here. Next, we are at a beach. So, Xiamen is located near the sea so the beaches here is very pretty. And even though right now it's winter time and you can't really swim but there's a lot of places like seas where you can just chill by the ocean and the breeze is so nice. And I think today is such a sunny day that it's so nice to be here. You get a little warm from the sun and then you get... It's not too hot that you won't sweat. There's even people recording their pre-wedding here because of how chill and nice this place is. And by the way, right across is Taiwan. That is Kinmen Island of Taiwan. And I just really want to go there right now to go to Taiwan because I miss Taiwan so much. One more thing that I have to tell you. This street is called Huantaolu and this street is so long and it is just all across the coastline of Xiamen. A lot of people come here to chill and just to walk or even run a bit. Or even run. Other than chilling in the beach, you can also order some food here and sit by the... How to say? Like there's a bean bag. A lot of bean bags here. You can just sit there and order food and I think that's just so chill. And we ordered the pizza. Okay, let's try some of the pizza because I'm quite hungry right now. It looks good. It's good. Probably it's because I'm too hungry but this is a good one. Chilling by the beach and enjoying the breeze is amazing. And not far from Huantaorou, there's a unique island with one special rule. There's no cars allowed on this island. So let's go check it out. Hello, hello from future Nessa here. Let's pause this video for a moment. I'm going to give you some travel insights about traveling in China. And I know it is super hard to travel China. Especially if you don't read Mandarin or understand Chinese at all. From navigating to Baidu maps and reading the menus. I know it is really really hard. So I have a tip for you. If you're traveling with a larger group, you can always book tours. And there's a lot of tour options if you open Klub app. And one more thing is you always need to pre-book everything. Like your attractions, your Disneyland tickets, your Universal tickets. Don't buy in the place. I don't think it's possible to do that now. 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Yeah it's very near. Something that made Pulangyu very interesting is this is a whole pedestrian area island. Yes you didn't hear me wrong. So there's no cars. There's no electric motorcycles. There's no horn sounds in this island. No not at all. There's no vehicle that can come here. So the only way you can come here is by the ferry. And everyone here is just walking because this is a huge pedestrian island. There's a lot of souvenirs and shops in this island. And I see some stores are from Taiwan so it's like a Taiwanese product. So for me that's really interesting because if you guys don't know I used to live in Taiwan and seeing a lot of Taiwanese things and being so close to Taiwan made me really really miss Taiwan. I don't know if you guys seen this but there's a lot of this in China. These are dried seafood and they're very very salty. People usually eat this with porridge or with rice or with soup. If you see this is a squid. It's a dried salty squid. So since we're very hungry we ordered some food. A lot of food actually. The famous food here is called satya mian which is a satya noodles. Yes and it looks kind of like curry laksa from Singapore you know. Yeah and we also ordered the famous zongzi which is a glutinous rice. It's not a cake okay guys. So this is a savory. People usually eat this in Taiwan and China. It's really good. And there's also wonton and so much more. My main dish is this banyan which is a dry noodles with sauce. Let's try. The sauce is a bit peanutty and a bit sweet actually. But it's good. The noodles is kind of like fettuccine. The satya noodles taste exactly like laksa in Singapore. But I prefer the banyan like the dry noodles. I prefer that one a lot. After lunch we decided to walk around the island for a while before going back to the city. Right across the pier is Zhongshan pedestrian street. And this is also another famous pedestrian street here in Xiamen. This street is a lot bigger than the other ones though. And there's a lot of things that you can find here from street food, shops, cafes, restaurants. Everything you can name. There's so many interesting shops here. And there's one that looks very very retro like a very old Chinese store. I think this small cups is also very cute. There are like Chinese characters each one of them and it only costs 10 yuan. This is so adorable. This is magnets and it's only 6.9 yuan each. It's like the usual breakfast. Most stores here you can only pay by WeChat or Alipay. So you just scan this and then put the amount that you purchase from that store and then done. So easy. Let's eat! So we bought the stinky tofu because I love it so much. And I think the prices are a bit expensive, right? Yeah, it's 20 yuan for just one cup. And this one is Changsha. Changsha is a city here in China that this is a... The speciality, the black tofu, the black stinky tofu. Don't be scared about the looks. This is so good. Cheers! We're trying this snack called like a taro fried duck. Yeah, it's like katsu with taro and duck. Yes, I know it doesn't look so appealing but let's try. Because it's everywhere here, right? Yeah, it smells not bad though. It smells good. Yeah, it smells like katsu. Okay, let's try. Is it hot? It's hot. Nice. It's kinda weird. Yeah. It's sweet from the taro and it's... Meaty. Yeah, meaty like a little bit salty from the duck. And it's fried. I don't know. It's like all tastes, they don't combine. Like you can taste everything separately. Yeah, so probably... Okay, I'm gonna give it another try. I think there is more taste of the taro than the duck. I more taste like taro. Okay. Like 80% of it is just taro. But it's edible. Yeah. So probably like 6 out of 10. You don't need to buy this, I think. The price is 30 yen. 30 yen for this, yeah. Quick way to end our culinary adventure in Chongsan street is to have dessert. And thankfully, they have our favorite dessert. This is meat fresh and I love taro balls and they have it here. So we're gonna dig into this. I miss this so much. Shaman has been such an amazing city. There's so many underrated places around China that can't be found here. But our adventure in China isn't over yet. If you like this video, don't forget to like and subscribe. And we'll see you next Saturday. Bye.