The sun was shining today so I just had to get out and about and catch some rays. I went to my favourite wee restaurant that sells dumplings in a spicy soup.

These are a great wee snack and I like to have them at least once a week.  I’m trying to be rice free for the next few days so this is ideal. The restaurant sits on a busy road but there is a small bridge over the canal at the rear which leads to a quiet lane and I prefer to walk along the canal because you can see the daily life and also the beautiful maple trees that are a vibrant red colour at the moment.

I like to explore these narrow streets but then I have to join a main road and I came across a park which was full with people, mostly older folk. They had music and were dancing and there would have easily been a couple of hundred and they all seem to be taking it very seriously and why not because they were very good indeed and of course the sun was shining.

Across these gardens there was some musicians and an old guy in the middle belting his lungs out. I stopped to listen although his singing was pretty bad the musicians were very good playing traditional instruments.

I head on and out the other side of the park and head down another narrow street with a line of houses that don’t look very big at all. Outside some of the houses they have there singing birds,  mind you I’m not sure what they are.

I think he was a bit camera shy😆

I’ve been in Suzhou for nearly 3 months but I never tire of walking around exploring the narrow streets and to find a new place to eat. 

This restaurant is near Jiangmen Metro station and it is serves spicy Chongching noodles that make your mouth go numb. A great way to heat up the body in the middle of a sunny winter’s day. 

But I only have a picture of the really spicy dumplings.