first meal in shenzhen

I spent almost all my time in Chun Feng Road in Shenzhen. My pa brought us to a restaurant opposite to our apartment on the first day. The specialty in this restaurant was their 瓦缸煨汤, the picture shown below is how they simmer the soup inside a big clay cylinder. We ordered the coconut soup, and it tasted really 'sweet'. I guessed it was good for my skin. 

Other than that we ordered fried latter 豆苗 ( which is very popular in shenzhen), chicken in claypot 三杯鸡，fish steam with black bean source and lotus simmer with pork rib. Those were all traditional southern chinese cuisine, its tasted very special to me. Unlike chinese restaurant in Malaysia, most popular dishes are sambal and curry. However, I do prefer Malaysian chinese food, can't live without sambal belacan. LOL! One meal without sambal is fine, but no more than that!

Payment Gateway

I set up my florist website 3 years ago, at start I did not use any payment gateway. After a while, when there were more and more inquiry from overseas, me and my IT partner decided to set up a payment gateway. Initially, we planned to go for paypal, but found it was too expenssive for beginner like us. So we went for a local assembly payment gateway - ipay**. The cost is quite cheap, only RM500++ for set up fee and RM68 for monthly fee. Both of us were the first timer for e-business, thus we did not take services and reliability as our consideration.

No doubt, by setting up payment gateway, our e-business has boosted up a lot, but we start meet difficulty handling with ipay**. Firstly, their responce are quite slow. Sometimes they only responce to the possibility of fraud payment after our delivery. That makes us have no choice, but to ask them to proceed with the payment which we being forced to take risk by our own.

Secondly, their customer service is not very well, as they only contact us via email and fax, they would not call you when there is any dispute. The worst thing is they give you deadline to responce to them, if not they will deduct money from your account. As a result, we as the customer have to follow up closely with them to avoid our money being deducted, they would not call you. I wonder maybe the phone call is too expenssive for them, even though it is only local call! LOL!

Well, you pay for a cheap service fee, and you get a cheap service. It is fair and that is how I console myself when I get frustrated by ipay**. :P
Is there any cheaper payment gateway in Malaysia?

Shenzhen Part 2 - Hand Bouquet

There are few flower stores in Chun Feng Street. I found the hand bouquet's design and color composition were quite different with the one we have in Malaysia.
Firstly, they like bright colors. For an example from the picture below, they used cili red, orange and pink as the theme color. Secondly, they rarely use floret like baby breath and peacock in their bouquet. This makes their bouquets look less sweet but fill with chinese passion, like the booming and thriving of the country.




Another bouquet that caught my eyes was the one shown in below, a lotus hand bouquet. I never see this in any other place. It is something special and the meaning of lotus in chinese is 'emerge unstained from filth (出污泥而不染)'.