Sunday, March 15, 2009

The visit of Nanjing Museum











I chose Nanjing museum because it is the biggest official museum in Nanjing. On match 14th, Chester and I went to this museum at 2 p.m.There were many different exhibitions in the museum, Chester and I had different choices. Chester chose the exhibition of jade, and I went to the year of OX exhibition. When I came into the gallery, I saw many violet sand pottery OX. 2009 is the year of OX, and Chinese people believe to use more things with a picture of OX will bring them good luck. Red is the lucky color of China, and the wall is red,so it gave tourists a strong feeling of Chinese culture, that made me get into that exhibition.
There were mostly some artworks of bull’s history. Ancient people used ox as a transport in the HAN dynasty, because ox is a sedate animal, they moved quickly and smooth. Some artists use paintings, sculptures, and other different kinds of ways to describle their own thinking of oxes.My favourite artwork is a painting. It's about ancient cowhands live with oxes, their pastoral lives were calm and peaceful. It was a vivid painting, and I love that one.
Exactly, I don't like museum very much, it's so quiet for me, I felt a little bit bored. Finally I found a small store of some souvenirs of oxes. I had fun picking stuffs there. Museum is a good place to get more imformation of culture, it recorded the lives of our ancestors. I saw some foreigners taking photos there as well.Whatever, I enjoyed this exhibition.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Round Table Steak House












I went to a restaurant named “Round Table Steak House” to have lunch with Chester on March 15th. This restaurant is beside DQ in 1912. We went there at 12:30, there were already many people eating there.
The reason that we chose this restaurant is a game called “Knight of the round”, and “Knight” this word gave us an image of elegant. Luckily, we picked the right restaurant because the environment here was really good. Our seats were large and tall, like the seats of emperor. The main color of this restaurant is red, and it has glass roof. A man was singing French song. It seems to be a very romantic place. We both ordered Fillet steak. It was tender and tasted nice, with a little blood. Cesar salad was fresh with sweet sauce, the ham was in pieces. Their Chinese Mushroom soup gave me a strong impression. I’ve eaten many mushroom soups before, but that was the most authentic one.The Fruit Ice-cream with caramel was like the perfect ending, sweet but not greasy.
I like the taste of this restaurant. It’s a real western restaurant. The waiters here were polite and speak with good manners. They paid attention to every detail. We saw some GCA students eating there as well, but people eating here were mostly adults. Some lovers were dating there, and businessmen talked business here too. I recommend others come to this nice restaurant.