Let me back track a bit here.  When we were planning the trip, I was trying to decide what hotel to book in Guangzhou, my mom had previously stayed at the 63-floor Guangzhou International Hotel, which had a rotating restaurant.  The Asia International Hotel is a building with 45 floors; which also has a rotating restaurant on the top floor.  This added to the confusion while making reservations. 

My mom wanted to eat at the rotating restaurant, which makes one circle in 2½ hours.  This morning Auntie, Uncle and Hang Hang came to the hotel to meet us for breakfast.  We went up to the rotating restaurant, but Auntie and Uncle quickly ushered us out, as they felt the 68RMB ($10 US) breakfast buffet is too expensive.  Their mentality is that it is all about the food; ambiance is not worth a penny.  We went downstairs to the Chinese restaurant and had dim sum instead. The dim sum was not spectacular and again overpriced in their opinion. 

By this time, all of Auntie’s family was waiting for us to go with us to Pan Yu for lunch.  Didn’t we just eat breakfast?  One of Auntie’s sons-in-law works for the government in Pan Yu, so he knows the area very well.  Today he reserved a bunch of fresh seafood for us for lunch.  We arrived at the restaurant located across the water from what is one of the most well known landmarks of Pan Yu, the gold statue of Kuan Yin looking at the sea (to protect those at sea).  Again, we had a couple of pounds of giant shrimp and some small shrimp, we also had the usual veggies, some delicious deep friend spare ribs, roast pig, goose and the dish of the day… waterbugs!!  Did I try the waterbugs?  Yes I did!  I was instructed on how to eat them, pull off the legs, pull off the head, pull off the wings and proceed to eat.  Out of the new things that I tried, this was the hardest to swallow.  I chewed a little bit and then drank a nice big gulp of soda to wash it down.  I was able to talk both kids into trying them too!  And, they did not enjoy it any more than I did.

Afterwards, we were taken on a quick tour of a couple of ancestral temples in the area.  These old temples were pretty interesting in architecture; the first one had beams that were completely carved. 

Then we were taken to eat again!  This time we had dessert, we had double skin milk, which is sort of a custard made with buffalo milk.  The taste was OK, it was not very sweet, but it was very thick.  There is a plain version and a version made with ginger, additionally various toppings can be added to it.

We got back into the car and when we stopped, I found us at yet another restaurant!  I was totally stuffed at this point.  Luckily, we only had a couple of dishes of veggies, the main item for this meal were the biggest steamed roast pork buns (cha siu bow) that I had ever seen.  These buns were probably 3 times as big as the usual buns and they were very delicious.  The only problem was I was so full from the earlier meals, I could only eat one.  L