Shanghai: Part I

Date: June 14th, 2008

Part I:
-Din Tai Feng @ Xin Tian Di
-Old City of Shanghai
-Yuyuan

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One day in Shanghai. Yes 1 day only. We had to get up at 6 to catch the train...I was so tired because I went out the night before even if I knew I had to get up early -__- Sorry if I look like shit in every picture, but it was too early! We didn't even club in Shanghai because we had class the next day so we had to go back to Hangzhou...

First of all, Shanghai is 2 hours away from Hangzhou by train. The trains are just so dirty...people eat and drink and throw their garbage on the floor...eww it was just nasty.

Hehe I look like I lack of vitamin

We went to this very famous restaurant called 鼎泰丰 (Ding Tai Feng) to have breakfast. When you go to Ding Tai Feng, you gotta make sure that you try their 小笼包（Xiao Long Bao） because they have the BEST! It's so juicy and you can't compare that with those you eat at Dim Sum places in Montreal which are completely disgusting! It would be like comparing heaven and hell...

Hmmm...Yum Yum =)
Without exageration, I never ate something sooooo fuckin good!!

After having breakfast, we went to visit the old city of Shanghai. There were so many tourists and it makes me hate tourists so much, but it's a classic tourist point of Shanghai so we still went just so that we can tell others we went to Shanghai. It's like...you haven't really been to Toronto if you didn't visit the CN tower and you can't say you've been to New York if you never seen the statue of liberty, obviously!

Oh, if you're a woman travelling alone, try to not look lost by acting like a tourist because some people will try to take advantage of you. I was approached by at least 10 random guys trying to sell me fake stuff. And they don't go "Hi miss, would you like some X and Y? no? okay thanks". They are really annoying and they won't let you go until you get mad and push them away.

Here's an example of things you should never do:
EXAMPLE #1: Taking a map or travel guide out!

I was obviously just pretending!

EXAMPLE #2: Taking pictures of random things in the middle of a street!

...not pretending

That's how the streets looked like. Many tourists and many shops with all kinds of stuff , you can find anything...like really anything you can think of.

Then, we went to Yuyuan which is one of the finest Chinese garden, but if you want my opinion, I'd say if you saw one, you saw them all...a bridge here, a temple there...

At that same place, you can find..... temples, DUH! It's nothing exciting, but we still checked it out. I actually never saw anything like that before except on TV.

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Part II:
-Nanjing Road
-The bund
-Oriental Pearl

Shanghai: Part II

Part II:
-Nanjing Road
-The bund
-Oriental Pearl

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This is the second part of this post. We went to Nanjing road which is the main shopping street of Shanghai and of China. Everything is so damn cool, it's like a shopping heaven...and they don't sell fake stuff so sorry for cheap people!
Let's start:
Nanjing road is 3.4 miles long, so we decided to take a train for a few cents.

Here's a building in construction. It's all supported with bamboo sticks

That's part of Nanjing road

Chinese Nike:

Kevin in front of Shanghai Fashion store, we didn't even go inside because we only had one day so we had to keep moving...

15 minutes break =)

It's time for some food! We decided to eat at subway because ohhh I missed fastfood and Kevin never ate at subway's before...poor guy.

Chinese Subway is not tasty at all!!!
...but he enjoyed it.

Yarkk excuse my hair color....I wanted to go to a hair salon in China, but my hair is equal to my life and my chinese is not so good so I didn't wanna risk my life.

After Nanjing, we went to the Bund. It's a nice place to hangout and you got a nice view of the oriental pearl. Unfortunately, the weather was really bad so we couldn't really see:

Me and the pearl:

Kevin's turn:

There were people selling stuff, couples and friends hanging around, delicious food, and more delicious food, yummy~~

We heard the night view is even better so we decided to take a coffee break and wait =) Everything is cheap in China except coffee.

There was this lady trying to sell us flowers, she insisted for at least 15 minutes. She was trying to convince Kevin to buy me a rose, so I told him that I didn't want, but she insisted that I meant yes even if I said no. She was right, I wanted that rose because no one ever gave me flowers before. That's Kevin, he'll do whatever I tell him to do, but he'll wait until I ask...*sigh*

Reading the famous guide hehe, I would've been so lost without him. It was even complicated to buy a train ticket.

Yay! Here's the Oriental Pearl Tower, the tallest TV tower in China and third in the world after Canada and Russia.

As I said, the weather sucked, so we couldn't see anything because of the stupid fog.

Me at my lowest point. I didn't realize until I saw that picture:

WHOAA! We are 1230 Km away from Hong Kong!

Having fun with the mirror attached to the ceiling:

Asian Peace!

Kevin somewhere in Europe, what a cute immigrant =)

Me in Beijing, what a hot laowai (foreigner)!!

Egypt too!

Next and last but not the least: Shanghai Municipal History Museum! I always thought museums are boring and hate all museums, I even hate the nasty Insectarium and Biodome, but I abosolutely love that one. It was a bit freaky because it was late and there were only a few people in that HUGE museum... and I kept thinking about that movie House of Wax...
You see why I was scared? That's why:

found another lover:

Life's hard, eh!

Find the fake one:

Pretending to be good with children:

Find Charlie:

That's freaky too:

The giant!!

I got no idea what they are doing but that looks weird...

Chinese opera?

What a long post!

So that was 1 day in Shanghai! I might be able to go back next year with a friend if all goes well and if I don't need to take any summer classes, cool right?! =)