It’s around 300 km from Changchun to Shenyang.

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The train was delayed for 2 hours and arrived at Shenyang north station at 2am in the morning.

Since it’s late and I needed a shower, took a cab (9Yuan which is the starting fare)to a bath house to spent a night. Bath house is very popular in China and is a cheap alternative to ZhaoDaiShuo or hotel. Usually bath house has hot pool, sauna, continuous hot water, free toiletries and other services such as different types of massage, some even provided illegal services.
This bath house I stayed at only cost 38 Yuan and included a 30 minutes massage, what a great deal.

ChangHuiGuangChang

A traveller told me that there’s a hostel here and is the only one in Shenyang. Tried to find my way to a hostel by taking bus 271. Got off at ChangKeZhan and wasn’t able to find the place. So had my breakfast first.
HunTun and ZhengJiao (6 Yuan~USD$0.90)

Walked for 1km north and finally found the place. The hostel is called ShanPi hostel at the 5th floor of 21 YaLvJiang road.

Beds (40 Yuan~USD$6)

Shenyang is the capital of Liaoning province and is the largest city in DongBei, Northeastern China with a population of almost 7 millions. The city was also the capital of Manchu in the 17th century before the Manchu conquest of Beijing in 1644.

Took bus 113 to DadongMen, GuGong is just few blocks west.

Dragon Ball without the Z

Shenyang Imperial Palace, this is the second Imperial Palace in China with a Manchu style of architecture. It’s also called Mukden Palace. The palace was constructed by the first Manchu emperor, Nurhachi and his sons from 1625 till 1936. The palace was the residence of the Manchu rulers before they moved the capital to Beijing during the Qing dynasty.

FengHuang Pavillion

Room of ZhuangFei, Concubine Zhuang. The place looked quite simple.

Qing Dynasty Emperor pics, from left, KangXi, QianLong and JiaQing

From GuGong, took bus 140 West to Liaoning Provincial Museum. Like other provincial museums in China, it’s free and the museum has a good content.

There are a lot of interesting artifacts in the museum. Lots of artwork from Ming and Qing dynasty.

Manchu, Chinese and Mongol writing on this plate. Manchu used scripts that are very similar Mongolian alphabets, except they have dots on the script.

Like most cities in China, there are a lot of constructions going on in ShenYang. 2 big projects are Forum 66 and SUnwah IFC. I did a search and found that those 2 projects are ranked quite high up as 100 tallest construction going on in the world now.

Shenyang has a big Korean population. Most of the ethnic Koreans are either borned in China or from North Korea.
Went to XiTa which has a Korean town.

Ate Korean cold noodles (7 Yuan~USD$1). I remembered at New York city Korean town, a bowl of Korean cold noodles cost USD$12, not including tips and taxes.

There are tons of shops seliing dog meat. Some even have fresh dog meat, dogs that were just killed.
Dog Meat

LiLianCongRouDaBing (5 Yuan~USD$.8), a kind of fried bread with vegetables and pork. It’s a Shenyang famous I guess.

The biggest statue of Mao is in Shenyang, ZhongShan square.