Exploring Shanghai

Kelly arrived in Shanghai today, and I was looking forward to exploring the city with her. First up was breakfast, and being of chinese heritage, I assumed she would figure out the numerous restaurants in Food Street, so we went for breakfast just a few meters down the road from the hostel.

She had a long discussion with the locals, and ended up ordering 3 dishes. When the stuff arrived, I was really amazed: Tofu soup, a bowl of warm soy milk, and some kind of donut sticks? WTFF!? I swear, I’ll never figure out this chinese food stuff! Well anyway, the donut sticks were pretty good, but we got out of there quite quickly.

Tofu soup, warm soy milk and donut sticks, this Chinese food is weird!

We walked to the Yu gardens, excited to go through the old city on the way. I’d only seen the very modern side of Shanghai so far, so it was really interesting to see the traditional buildings. The area looked really nice, and was full of Chinese tourists. There were also a lot of shopping streets and markets in the old city, it’s amazing how much cheap stuff they sell in this street.

Kelly in front of a building in Yuyuan  garden

One interesting thing we saw was the zig-zag bridge, which might prove useful one day. One can appearantly use it to get rid of ghosts, as the ghosts can only go straight. So if you feel like there’s some unholy presence following you around, try going through here, it might just help! 🙂

Officially ghost-free. Finally!

In the evening, we went to the bar on the observation deck on the 87th floor of the World Financial Center. 87 floors, that’s like 400 meters above ground! We got an incredible evening view over the Jin Mao and Broadcast towers, and I enjoyed an expensive but very good Tom Collins cocktail.

Nice evening cocktail at 400 meters above ground!

Yeah I love those skyscrapers! 🙂

Fresh chicken, anyone? Please get in line..

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