This evening I was meeting a few friends for dinner in the Moon Harbor area of SIP (Suzhou Industrial Park). As I was up quite early for work due to morning conference calls, I did leave work a bit early which got me to the dinner location way too early. No worries though, it was a pleasant evening so I walked around a bit and snapped some pictures.
Moon Harbor has a number of restaurants ranging from Chinese to Indian to even Turkish. There are a few coffee shops in this area as well. It’s a weird area as there’s no real “neighborhood feel” to it. Rather, the area seems to be built for attracting the tourist crowd.
Moon Harbor is right next to the Suzhou Culture and Expo Center and can be accessed via Line 1 on the subway pretty easily. If you find yourself in this area after 8pm and are a bit thirsty, look for the iStation mall (attached to the subway station) and find a bar called Locke Pub. It’s quite a friendly place with good prices and fun music. During the week you might even stumble upon one of their events that range from open mic night to “Winesday” (wine tasting Wednesdays) to painting night. Just leave the goat at home or it might get sheared unexpectedly!
The video (if it loads; I’m having trouble with it on this blog) is a short 10 seconds long looking at Dongfangzhimen from Moon Harbor and shows some of the evening lights show from the buildings that make up Suzhou Center. The light shows on buildings in China are pretty amazing. One of these days I’ll take enough video of them to do a full post.
Awesome sights Richie. Looks like a place i could hang out for hours just walking and watching the light shows. Hope you can post a longer video soon.