People's Park!KFC!

KFC here!

9th Day

We could not go and visit an industrial site that was planned to take place on Thursday because it turns out that UESTC has no relationship with them and thus, could not set up our visit. As a replacement for that , Ms Cahn brought us to the People's Park in the morning and we went to see a traditional chinese medicine (TCM) shop located a shopping center in the afternoon.


PEOPLE'S PARK IN THE MORNING!

The objective of going to the people's park was to see some activities that are carried out there. Mainly, to see the Chinese people doing tai-chi. This is because we had a presentation earlier that week that had included tai-chi as a relaxation therapy. We were excited to see what the People's Park here looks like!While walking around and exploring the park, we could clearly see that the People's Park in China differ greatly to the People's Park in Singapore. The park here are literally a park for the people! We could see that it was a place for the elderly to exercise as well as to interact with their friends. It was also a place for people and tourists to come and enjoy the scenery. On the other hand, the People's Park in Singapore is actually an area mixed with shopping centre, office buildings as well as housing buildings.It was interesting that these two places has the same name but differ greatly from one another.After working out an appetite, we found a KFC nearby the park and went there. At last, we got to eat at a place that was more familiar to us!My friends ordered some food and it was surprising to see that the KFC here serves not only rice with chicken but also, rice with beef. The KFC here is also not certified halal unlike the KFC back at home.These were a couple of differences between the two countries that we got to observe today:)

Shop selling toys in the park!

They really do tai-chi here!

Walking around the park!

A lake in the park!!

Beautiful scenery of the park!

TCM IN THE AFTERNOON!

Since we could not get to visit an industrial site, we were brought to see a traditional chinese medicine shop that was located in a shopping center. In the shop, we could see many jars and displays of various kinds of herbs and ginseng. I also get to see how the herbs were measured before it was packed for the customers. The herbs are not pre-packed and everything is measured on the spot using an interesting weighing scale. It was not the ordinary weighing scale but a rather traditional weighing scale. They did not allow photos to be taken. Hence, we do not have any pictures to show the weighing scale used by them.

Photo taken secretly!TCM shop!

Photo taken secretly!Different types of medicine!