A very helpful tray is kept next to your table. All empty dishes or dishes to be emptied into the hotpot can be kept here. Finally, the waiter counts the number of plates used and tallies the bill.
One of my favorite food items to have in China – hotpot. It’s a complete DIY experience, which makes cooking fun. The hot pot is at the center of the table, a boiling cauldron of water and chilli oil/many times meat broth in to which goes meat and vegetables. The heat can be regulated with...
The panda base tour took about an hour and a half to finish. At the end of it, you have the option of taking a picture with a panda. But it comes at a heavy price. Two minutes of panda time costs – Rs. 6,800 ($150). If it wasn’t so overpriced I may have tried...
This very un-panda like animal is actually the Red Panda. I didn’t even know such a type existed and when I saw them they were so unlike the usual pandas. These looked cuter, I thought.
Some of the panda enclosures had play pens like this where the animals could amuse themselves. I was reminded a lot of the Singapore zoo, which has similar play pens.
The pandas are not caged. They are given their own grounds filled with bamboo and are separated from the public by a moat and fence. Looks like they were enjoying their breakfast.
As you enter you are greeted with long walkways shaded by glades of towering bamboo on either side. We went early in the morning at around 8.30, to catch the pandas during their feeding time. Apparently, they eat only in the morning.
Last weekend I visited the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. A little away from the city, it’s one of the most famous places in the world where you can see giant pandas, including the rare red types.
