This is turning into a food blog, eh?! Hahahha. So it goes.
Awake at 4am, up arond 5am. I had a nice phone call with my Darling husband, and I read for a bit. Nothing useful like yoga or working out today. But really, reading a nice book in a comfy bed at 5am is sort of luxurious. I enjoyed it. And the bed is really really comfy. I like the pillows - and the duvet is lovely and fluffy.
Breaky: I did go out to try the street meats! Fun!!! I had a chi-fan. Like you can buy at T&T. It is a rice roll wrapped around boiled egg, shredded pork and mustard greens, and chinese doughnut - you know. Very tasty. 4RMB! I also walked around the plaza a bit, got a starbucks, and bought some more water from the Lawson. You'll notice breakfast was 4 RMB ($0.60) for the food, and 21 RMB ($3.24) for the western-style coffe - hahahha! It totally always seems to be like that - which is probably good - you want 1 bln people to be able to feed themselves, but 1 bln people do not need to be able to have a Starbuck's every morning.
Lunch:
We were at the same place as yesterday. It was good - I had a bowl of noodles in soup. They put a tremendous amount of noodles in one bowl - like, way more noodles than one person should eat. These are the sort-of equivalent to spaghetti - but far, far too much to eat at once! hahah - so obvi I did (when in Rome!), I am having a sluggish afternoon maybe due to that!
Dinner:
Last night we went to the 'thumbs plaza' which is a hip neighbourhood on this side of the river (PuDong side). My favourite part was killing some time in a grocery store (Carre-four) before the rest of our colleagues showed up. Awesome! It was like a big loblaws, where they don't just sell you food but also stuff. And THIS is where regular people shop, not the crazy expensive malls with seriously overpriced western good. I had to be torn out of the grocery store. This is my advice, always try to hit up a grocery store in a foreign country - they are so interesting! I couldn't resist buying some 'cute things' - little packets of napkins and things. I am hoping to spend some time saturday in a grocery store, hopefully without boys that think it is lame, ahahha.
Dinner was japanese - um... not really very distinguishing. Fine, but not outstanding. It was nice eating with those colleagues (the main team I have been training all week), but I would say TO has better Japanese food, based on this one experience. There was a large group of VERY drunk and loud Japanese men, that provided amusement for the rest of us! (It seems like this isn't ok behaviour for the Chinese guys - they seemed slightly shocked and embarrased by the Japanese guys - maybe that was just because we are in a business setting though?)
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Oh man, I think I would starve to death if I were there.
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I love, love, love visiting different grocery stores! So fun!
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