Japanese restaurant with family

Japanese restaurant

In 2009-03-13, I went to a Japanese restaurant called Tairyo Japanese restaurant with my family. I really want to go Japanese restaurant for a long time because I had not eaten Japanese food except sushi though I am Korean and I am in China. After I watched a famous TV program at 7 pm, I went to 1912, which is very famous place that there are many international restaurants and clubs, because it is very near my home (only takes 5minutes to go). The exact location is 52 Taiping Bei Lu, Nanjing.

Now, I have eaten 3 different kinds of East Asia foods (Korean, Japanese and Chinese). I was very surprised that though these 3 countries are very near, foods are very different. Korean food is spicy and salty. And Chinese food is too fatty for me because there are so many fat and oil in the foods. And last, Japanese food is not salty and not spicy and not fatty. In there, I ate sushi, steak, sashimi, noodle and so on. Actually I did not eat so much because the dish was too small. But I liked it because I really like foods like sushi and sashimi without cooking. As I wrote, I am Korean and I am in China so that I eat spicy, salty and fatty food every day but the food I ate was not salty and spicy and fatty.

In addition, the environment was very clean and great. Actually, there are Korean restaurant in 1912 but I do not recommend going there because that Korean restaurant is very dirty. And I think that is not like Korean restaurant. I was also surprised because two thirds of people in this restaurant were foreigners. Moreover, the service was very good except the food is very late.

In conclusion, I recommend others to go Tairyo Japanese restaurant if you have enough money. It was expensive and the food is not so much. If others really want to go, I recommend choosing 150 yuan food. If you pay 150 RMB, you can choose whatever you want. I think I will go there soon because I can not dismiss those foods.

Palace museum art gallery [no tickets or brochures]

Palace museum Duplicate painting and calligraphy

In 2009-3-13, I went to an art gallery called ‘Nanjing art gallery’ with my brother, Martin. At first, actually, we would go other art gallery called ‘JiangSu Yanghofan Art gallery’ because it is very near from my house and I am very interested in canvas. But when I arrived at there at about 12 o’clock, I found that the building was broken. So I had to change my plan. I began to look for other art gallery and in I decided to go here. The open time was 9~11 am and 14~17 pm. So I went there at 2 o’clock. It was quiet near from my house (BaiXia district Sitiaogang number 12). The title is Palace museum duplicate painting and calligraphy.

When I reached there, I found that there are a lot of traditional pictures and calligraphies. I heard that these pictures were painted by many artists from hundreds years ago and these pictures are not real one. But the prices of pictures were still expensive. I liked some pictures of views because as you can see, it is really eastern. I like eastern pictures. But some of them are pictures of human and I did not like it because it looked like Japanese style and it was little scary (It doesn’t mean I hate Japanese people so much). I also liked pictures of animals such as birds and horses.

As a consequence, I liked it except pictures of human. I was very excited because I had very few chances to visit art galleries. I hardly ever go to art gallery and it became very good experience for me. As you know, I am Asian (though I am not Chinese). So I felt comfortable when I was looking pictures and that’s why I do not think that I was developed by looking these pictures. But I learnt a lot by looking these pictures. Nowadays, I think many people like Western style pictures. I also like it. But I think we can go to Eastern art gallery or museum to relax ourselves.