Chaozhou Three-Day Extreme Tour (with tips to avoid pitfalls)

Super Girl's Weekend Extreme Tour to Chaozhou Day one starts in the morning from Guangzhou South, arriving at Chaoshan Station at noon, then taking the high-speed rail tourism line (it's super hard to get a taxi at Chaoshan Station, we tried for a long time and finally chose the tourism line, 15 yuan per person which is acceptable) to Paifang Street. 📍Day One: Paifang Street — Guangji Bridge (you need to queue for a while, but it's not the peak season so the wait isn't long) — Hanwen Gong Temple — Wait by the river at 5:30 pm for the Guangji Bridge to be dismantled — Xima Road for dinner — Watch the light show on the banks of Guangji Bridge (there are shows at 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm) 📍Day Two: Kaiyuan Temple — Yi Garden — Qinglong Ancient Temple — Beef hotpot for lunch — Danfu Institute (it rained heavily so there were even fewer people, felt very serene and comfortable) — Xima Road to buy snacks back to the hotel 📍Day Three: Ji Lue Huang Gong Temple — West Lake Park — Looking for food (Eighteen Bend Fish Dumplings, Fan Sha Taro, Braised Goose, etc...) — Head home 🤤🤤Chaozhou must-eats: wheat cakes, Fan Sha Taro sweet potatoes, braised goose, almond tea, meat dumplings, beef hotpot, beef balls, sea stone flowers, seafood casserole porridge, licorice fruit, sugar onion thin pancakes!! Note: ①Bring your student ID, most attractions offer half-price admission ②Places like Danfu Institute and Chaozhou Geological Park are on the mountains, it's hard to get a taxi when leaving, so try not to stay too late ③Cars and electric vehicles are not allowed inside the ancient city ④Make sure to leave the ancient city half an hour early to catch a taxi to Chaoshan Station for the return trip Summary: When visiting Chaozhou, find a hotel in the ancient city, because all those attractions are inside the ancient city. Chaozhou really has a lot of delicious food!! You can eat different things every day, and compared to Paifang Street, Xima Road seems to have a slightly better cost-performance ratio for food, Paifang Street is a bit more expensive (to the extent that locals wouldn't go there), but I can still accept these. ❗️❗️But!! When I was about to leave Chaozhou and have my last meal, I wanted to eat beef slice Guo Tiao, so I planned to find a place on Paifang Street (because it was nearby). I found an older looking shop, went in and asked if they had beef Guo Tiao (at this time we just asked if they had it) the owner said yes, but when I looked at the menu it was beef ball Guo Tiao, I originally didn't want it, but he said he had already started cooking it, we hadn't even said whether we wanted it or not and he had already started cooking it, it was only two minutes from the time we came in to when we thought about leaving... Thinking about making do, beef balls then beef balls (Chaozhou's beef balls are really super delicious) but the beef balls in his bowl of Guo Tiao, were completely different from what I had at other shops, they tasted like the frozen hotpot ingredients beef balls from the supermarket downstairs of my house, my goodness, before this I always thought that there were no bad tasting beef balls in Chaoshan, this... And his Guo Tiao really disappeared after two chopsticks, I couldn't get full at all (and he charged me 25 yuan a bowl...) Throughout the trip, the experience was very good, but the last meal left a bad impression, I'm really speechless Really, don't think that older looking shops will be more authentic and affordable, especially on Paifang Street!!!!