{"id":623,"date":"2007-11-20T12:41:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T04:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=623"},"modified":"2009-12-10T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T06:48:56","slug":"shanghai-2007-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai 2007 – Part 2 : Zhouzhuang"},"content":{"rendered":"

continued from here<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2665Nov 5th (Mon)\u2665<\/strong><\/span>
\nBreakfast was streetfood. Although breakfast was included in our Motel rate, it was lousy. Our Motel is\u00a0nearby Yun-Nan Road (\u4e91\u5357\u8def) which has many small local restaurants. In the morning, lots of stalls are scattered along the street selling green onion pan cakes<\/a> (\u8471\u6cb9\u997c); You-tiao (\u6cb9\u6761)<\/a> and other savoury and sweet pastries. I’m able to fill my stomach with just RMB2 or less, what a steal. Daddy on the other hand, has too much concern over the hygenes level of the food, he preferred having fruits (he’s the healthy eater at home).<\/p>\n

We started with a stroll to HuaiHai Road (\u6dee\u6d77\u8def), which is like our Bukit Bintang<\/a>. Lots of high rise and super big department stores.<\/p>\n

\"Shanghai\"<\/p>\n

Around Shanghai\u00a0: <\/span>
\n\u2665Maple Leaves\u2665<\/span> \u2665A muriel outside a toy shop, I thought this looked like a work of a Malaysian Cartonist\u2665\/span> \u2665A sign appearing in all underpass “Beware of Slip \u00a0– Shouldn’t it read : “Beware, slippery” or some thing else\u2665<\/span>
\n\u2665Sun Yat Sen former residence (\u5b6b\u4e2d\u5c71\u6545\u5c45)\u2665<\/span> \u2665Daddy slurping some grass jelly\/cincau in a Taiwanese cafe. He loves this\u2665<\/span>
\n\u2665Seafood available on Yun-nan Road. Can you spot the cage of exotic birds with another cage of snake above them? (I can imagine the stress these animals feel)\u2665<\/span><\/p>\n

We visited the Shanghai Museum in the afternoon. It was quite good (it was more to make me feel good that I visited places other than the malls).
\n\"Shanghai<\/p>\n

Items which caught my attention in the Museum<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2665Nov 6th (Tues)\u2665<\/strong><\/span>
\nWe were off to Zhouzhuang<\/a> (\u5468\u5e84),\u00a0one of the most\u00a0famous\u00a0old water township in China.<\/p>\n

We initially wanted to take a bus to Zhouzhuang and do our own walking, but it so happened that\u00a0the next available bus came with a tour guide, and we only had to pay RMB5 extra. It helped to have a guide, as we were able to know what is famous in Zhouzhuang and the history behind the town.<\/p>\n

\"Zhouzhuang<\/p>\n

\u2665Lunch at Zhouzhuang : The vege tasted something like a cross between water cress and choy-sum; the prawns small but sweet; the omelette was fried with local white bait; and\u00a0dish in the middle is steam Ba-yu (\u5df4\u9c7c) which translates to Palm Fish as the fish is the size of the palm, only available in Zhouzhuang\u2665<\/span> \u2665live Ba-Yu, a fish which is not fully evolved from a reptile, so they have lungs. Emperor used to eat only the lungs as a delicacy (LB<\/a>, any for you?)\u2665<\/span> \u2665Famous pork knuckles (for sale everywhere around Zhouzhuang, all claimed to be ‘original’)<\/span><\/p>\n

Zhouzhuang is made famous internationally by a famous Chinese painter Chen Yi Fei<\/a>; old bridges, waterways, boats, willow trees lining the walk way. No cars are allowed in the town. However, recent years, the place has become very commercialised with everybody trying to push their wares to tourists visiting the town.<\/p>\n

\"Zhouzhuang\"<\/p>\n

Cobbled street, water ways, boats, bridges are all famous sights in Zhouzhuang<\/p>\n

\"Zhouzhuang\"<\/p>\n

\"Zhouzhuang\"<\/p>\n

That day excursion was good, not too taxing for Daddy, and we were able to take naps on the bus journey (~1.5hrs to fro).<\/p>\n

When we arrived Shanghai, we rushed to the Wang Bao He Restaurant (\u738b\u5b9d\u548c\u9152\u5bb6). I have a few team members who are located in Shanghai, and my boss suggested we meet and have a team dinner. Since it’s hairy crab season, we went to the most famous crab restaurant in Shanghai, and had the ‘crab banquet’. There were like 12 or more dishes all prepared with something from the crab or to compliment the crab. And the final dish was a hairy crab each. It was a very expensive dinner, costing RMB550 per head. Fuyoh!<\/p>\n

\"Wang<\/p>\n

These were some of the dishes I managed to capture. The rest ended in the stomach<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a good meeting with the team members, all of whom I’ve met for the first time.<\/p>\n

As for the Hairy crabs, I still find Malaysia’s crab the best! I’m not so much of a crab roe\/egg person I guess.<\/p>\n

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