We havent blogged these few days coz we've been busy showing Alynn from Singapore around the city. I only have 3 (short) days to show her the BEAUTY of Shanghai - the Arts, Culture & Food. She's more into the Arts.
(But if crazy shopping is your top priority, i'll plan another itinerary) It's been 2 days...and she's loving what she saw, experienced and ate! Phew... ;p
DAY 1, TuesdayWe arranged to meet at
Xin Tian Di -
Afternoon Tea. She liked the pasta, caramel milk
chai and cakes. She's impressed by the whole XTD area too! Keke... After lunch, we went to buy
Uniqlo colourful thermals which she'll be needing at her next destination - Beijing. Next, we walked from
Chang Le Road all the way to (the far end of)
Xing Le Road. It's a really really really looong walk (i must say our endurance really very good in our Asics shoes)...and she really likes the nice deco of the small shops and the feeling of how things just fit together here. Here, dont need to buy anything also will feel very good (coz it's like looking at the nice things in Japan). One of the more impressive shop is Edison Chen's shoe store along Chang Le Road (a must-go). Of course, girls can buy something even in winter! Keke...
At
Source, we saw the same pair of red checks Jack Purcell that Elvis bought from Tokyo and she bought it too! The both of us also bought some "girlish" clothes - maybe for CNY. Then, we walked again to
H&M store at
Huai Hai Road. The heater inside was so warm that we gave up after a while. So we went to
Shintori where i've made dinner reservations. She was so shocked by what she saw! Really impressed by the whole place (including its washroom)! Heehee...
After dinner (about 8pm), we decided to continue to
The Bund overlooking Pudong & the HuangPu River and we walked down to
Nanjing Pedestrian Street. She also likes what she saw of touristy Shanghai. I'm glad she had a great day! This is my Shanghai!
(Realized i didnt take any photos of XTD or The Bund/Nanjing Road area but you've probably seen it all over my blog. For the nice nice Chang Le Road shops, see here.)
Looking down to the open-concept kitchen from where we sat...
DAY 2, WednesdayAlynn went alone to
Yu Gardens in the morning and i met her for
dimsum lunch at
Crystal Jade, Huai Hai Road. She quite liked the rich man's HUGE house
(YuYuan) which is like a maze (Current entrance fee ¥30). After lunch, we walked to the nearby
NiHong which sells all the kids stuffs. Just wanted to look at some stuffs for her niece (11 days younger than Joel). In the end, both of us spent $ like water... Haha! When we left, it was almost 5pm!
Then we went to
MoCA Shanghai museum. I had checked online before we went and found out that the museum closes at 10pm on Weds. (
Shanghai Art Museum was showing some Chinese painting exhibition which we both wasnt interested in, so we gave that a miss) When we arrived at 5.40pm, it looked like it was closing! We were told that coz it was the last day of the exhibition, so they will close at the usual 6pm. In the end, the staff was so nice to let us in FREE for a quick look. WOW!
We headed for dinner at
Tian Zi Fang. We found a fusion Japanese restaurant and ate there. Nothing fantastic but it's ok. She really liked the whole TZF area too! Then she came to my house for a while coz it's very nearby (actually it's walking distance but we took a cab coz too tiring with Joel). We just relax a while, looked through our shopping before she went back to her hotel to prepare for the next day... Then i got busy again - feeding Joel, making him sleep and washing his lunch box etc...and BLOG!
(Elvis is still at work. Hopefully he can leave earlier tomorrow to have dinner with Alynn before she leaves for Beijing on Fri)
This is at the MoCA exhibition...
This is Tian Zi Fang...didnt take a lot coz it was at night
(but here is Tian Zi Fang by day)
DAY 3, ThursdayWe had wanted to go to some artas places & galleries... in
Mong Gan Shan (aka
M50 which u can see in my older posts in July08
here...but i think it's so-so only) and
Duo Lun Road (which my China friend says it's not nice). So we changed our plans to this SUPER COOL PLACE -
1933 and Red Town /
Hong Fang /Shanghai Sculpture Space /红坊 /上海城市雕塑艺术中心
(I dont know what's it really called). Everything we saw at these 2 places is just so artas! Alynn likes it! ;)
After that, we wanted to go to the
Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center...but it looks closed when we got there at about 4+pm.
(I have blogged about the SUPEC before here) So we went to
Raffles City to shop and rest a while before we meet Elvis for dinner. (He worked till 4am the night before...yawn...)
Artas Place #1 : 1933. The 1st picture of the building was taken from my friend's Facebook coz i had forgotten to take a picture of its exterior (!!!).
This is the inside of the ultra cool 1933...
We didnt dare to walk to the area where the glass is see-through... Haha! (and I'm much heavier with Joel)
This is just outside of 1933... And an
American Apparel store too! (The first in Shanghai)
Artas Place #2 : Red Town.
This is a car made of bricks
(not very nice but quite interesting lah)
This is Shanghai food - very yummy
Hong Shao Rou and the chicken with loads of dried chilli...
And this is Alynn - my sightseeing companion for the past 3 days. She's Becky's friend but we're kinda also "linked" in a few ways (via my sis Sandra & via my ex-colleague Fiona). Actually, we've only met briefly a couple of times in Singapore but we
clicked right away in Shanghai and had a great time these few days! ;)
Bye! I'm sure she'll explore more fun things in Beijing!
I received my USA package today! Such cool stuffs! Max Brenner HugMug, hot chocolate and 2 books for Joel - Dr. Seuss 'Up, Up, Up with the Cat' and 'Wheels on the Bus'! Look! The books are so cool! Has wheels and special sound effects (foil, beep, rattle)! Thank you sooo much, Bee Kheng! ;)
Every time when we pat Joel to sleep, he will pinch & scratch us! If he's lying on our shoulders, he will pinch the upper arms (OUCH!). If he's lying on the bed, he will scratch and pinch the palms and arms (ouch ouch!). We try to make sure his nails are trimmed regularly but it still hurts A LOT! Elvis also really "tak boleh tahan" but he doesnt pat Joel to sleep as often as me! :/
P.S. I bought 2 Alpha Industries bomber jackets here during summer. If you know this brand, you'll know it's not cheap (and very nice & classic styles)! During summer, winter stuffs of course BIG SALE! So it was like less 50% off! So from about S$300++, it went down to about S$100-150. Unbelievable price! Anyway, i bought the Ladies jacket for myself & a Mens jacket for Elvis. In the end, Elvis' was TOO BIG and he gave it to his Thai friend Pick last month. (I wanted to give Ann coz she likes Alpha too, but it was a bit big for her too. Pick hasnt bought any winter jackets then, and it fits him well. It was timely too coz he was freezing!) Or else, we would have a whole family of matching bomber jackets! So uncool but cute! Haha!
Bought this beanie some time back (Joel looks really FAT with it & i didnt even wanna upload a pix of it)...so i didnt think he would ever wear it at all. Just trying it out the day before the wedding dinner...something red. It's not so bad now! I think he did lose some fats after all! Keke... ;p
Surprisingly, Elvis doesnt need to work till very late, so we met up again for dinner with Pick & Raymond (and his "sticky" Shanghainese girlfriend, Carol). This Hong Kong "cha chan ting" is called 钱柜茶餐厅. It's quite new and their food is very very very yummy. It is actually by Party World 钱柜 (KTV) at FuXing Garden.
The wedding dinner was 6pm at Dong Bei Ren 东北人. Everyone was supposed to wear RED! It's the wedding dinner of a Singaporean couple whom i do not even know. They have had their wedding dinner in Singapore, and this was just a casual dinner for friends here (only 3 tables). I couldnt tell which were the newly-wedded couple coz they werent even wearing anything "special". It's my first time dining there (or at any Dong Bei restaurants) and i was a little shocked! Apparently, the staff will sing for you if you order a lot of "big fish, big meat". Haha! Quite funny. And most of the food are also BIG BIG portions/chunks just like Dong Bei people - "hao suang" (easy-going). ;p
Every few months, there's something new to discover in this olden Shanghai. Today, my fav TV - Channel Young - featured 1933! Such a coincidence!
We havent blogged these few days coz we've been busy showing Alynn from Singapore around the city. I only have 3 (short) days to show her the BEAUTY of Shanghai - the Arts, Culture & Food. She's more into the Arts. (But if crazy shopping is your top priority, i'll plan another itinerary) It's been 2 days...and she's loving what she saw, experienced and ate! Phew... ;p
At Source, we saw the same pair of red checks Jack Purcell that Elvis bought from Tokyo and she bought it too! The both of us also bought some "girlish" clothes - maybe for CNY. Then, we walked again to H&M store at Huai Hai Road. The heater inside was so warm that we gave up after a while. So we went to Shintori where i've made dinner reservations. She was so shocked by what she saw! Really impressed by the whole place (including its washroom)! Heehee...
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