Nothing much to do at Xiamen - Day 3

Xiamen on the 3rd day. We are restless and find that we have degenerated into oblivion. We have no mood to go around visiting any other places because we have low tolerance of people who spit on the streets and smoke in air conditioned buildings including restaurants. Not that we are high class people just that we are of different culture. Today we move out of Bestel into Xiamen Airlines Hotel (Jinyan Hotel 金雁酒店）situated on Hubin Nanlu.

Around the hotel is the 鹭江湖。 And 鹭 is the bird of Xiamen city.

We get the run around by the receptionist because she could not get us into a non-smoking room (in a non-smoking floor) with a single bed and in the end we get upgraded into a non-smoking executive floor room.

We go to the 湖滨南路公车站 to buy our coach tickets for Meizhou. We will depart for MZ on 14/4 at 7.30am and the tickets cost us only CNY122 per person. The station is only 5 minutes' walk away from Jinyan. We want to travel by coach so we can see the country side.

We get good recommendation from Jinyan Concierge to eat at 好清香 which is just 10 minutes' walk away. Our order for our 闽南小吃 lunch today 燒肉粽， 韭菜盒， 面线糊， 蟹肉粥， 虾面。 We feel finally that we have found food that agree with us and are prepared and cooked in commercially clean ways. And surprising to us the taste of the food is similar to ones we get in Malaysia.

After a satisfying lunch we go to the 文化中心 and  科技馆 as recommended by the Concierge. The fact that we are going to these places tell a story.... we have no other more interesting places to go! And they are absolutely disappointing places. 

At the 科技馆 there were no visitors apart from us (that tells the true picture) and the guides there did not help us understand what they have on display. And it is only 5 years old!!

The arts center did not even have one piece of art on display. And it smells moldy in the exhibition halls. OMG. Xiamen is well developed in infrastructure (exterior appearance) but these infrastructure is not well maintained and supported. The city seems to want to advance in the big league but it is hampered by 沒有公德心的公民 and a city hall that does not transform itself to meet the challenges of welcoming world citizens to its city.