Hongkeng Hotels

Homestay at Fuyulou and Zhenchenglou

There are homestays at Fuyulou and Zhenchenglou. It costs RMB30 per head per night.

The rooms are basic, just two beds and no attached bathroom. You will be provided with a plastic pail to do your business in the night. The actual toilet is built outside the building. You will have to come down from your room on the third floor, open up the huge main timber doors which have a heavy timber beam across it (as added security from intruders), and walk about twenty paces to a row of low single-storey cells that houses the toilet.

I should add that the toilet is quite clean, but very basic. The hot water shower does not have a mixer, so you have to mix the hot/cold water onto a basin to get the right temperature.

Unique Quality: Both Fuyulou and Zhenchenglou are run by two Lin brothers individually. they are the 5th generations Lin to have inherited the tulous.

Remember to bring your own toiletries and towels.

All meals are extras but it doesn't cost every much (RMB50 for lunch and RMB6 for breakfast for two persons). The meals are served on demand. Basically Hakka home cooking - yam dumplings, fish (tiny ones), vege, and toufu (my favorite as they were fresh and fragrant. They are made everyday and to be consumed by lunch asthere isn't any preservative in it)

There isn't any restaurant around other than the tulou;s kitchen. There may be restuarant outside the village, in Hongkeng town about 1.5km away, but we didn;t venture that far.

• Opinion of Price: least expensive
• Written December 3, 2004

Inside the circular tulou of Zhenchenglou

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