eat n shop

Just 2 weeks of enjoying the cool autumn breeze, i cant believe we're dressing for winter already!!! This weekend, we went out only in the late afternoon. Both days, lunch was home-delivery coz the cold weather makes us feel sooo lazy. Kinda like animals hibernating in winter! That includes Joel coz shortly after he woke up and bathed (at about 10am), he went back to sleep again (at 11am)!!! Or maybe he knows it's the weekends! ;p

We finally went to the Grandma's Kitchen at GangHui (港汇广场 Grand Gateway) for some nice soup...and realized a revamped level 5 & 6 with a whole lot of restaurants!
Picture: Mommy dressed Joel at home in silly hat! And we went out in matching blue furry boots! HAHA!

We also found a new shop from Hong Kong - Bauhaus - in GangHui and Elvis bought this simple but nice jacket and a pair of jeans (both so expensive!!!)...but he received a VIP card for 10% discount on future shopping lah! ;p (The VIP card can also be used in HK Bauhaus which carries about 20+ labels, but here in Shanghai, there's only about 10 labels)

P.S. Sorry, i cannot find a related link for 'Bauhaus', but you'll probably have seen their shops in almost every HK street! Haha! ;)

Sunday afternoon, we went to Shanghai Outlets which is like a really HUGE factory outlet place. (You can view more detailed pictures here from another blog) There's more brands now compared to the last time we went more than a year ago. It's in the outskirts of Shanghai, so getting there by cab takes more than 30mins (1 hour if there's a jam). It was raining and we only shopped for 2 hours coz we had dinner plans with Elvis' boss & friends at HAIKU! Yum yum! That's the perfect ending for my weekend! ;)


The Shanghai Outlets link (www.outlets.sh.cn) doesnt seem to work...their address is at 2888 HuQingPing Road/JiaSong Road, open daily from 10am to 9pm.

If you wanna scour at least 50% of the shops at Shanghai Outlets, be prepared to come early and give yourself at least half a day here. It'll also be more "worthwhile" coz your cab fares already cost quite a bit lah (approx ¥70-100 one-way from town, and might need to get past 1-2 toll highway depending on the route you take).
Adidas, Armani, Burberry, CK, Colour 18, Diesel, Esprit, Fila, Guess, I.T., Lacoste, Le Coq Sportif, Levi's, Liu Jo, Miss Sixty, New Balance, Nike, Nike Golf, Nine West, Puma, Quiksilver, Sisley, Tommy Hilfiger, United Colors of Benetton, Zegna...and much more...most shops offer discounts of approx 30% up to 70%!!! (I even saw 1 shop at 90% discount!)
Also there's a HUGE everything-for-kids section which we didnt get to see...but i saw almost everyone carrying their carrier bags.