Woke up with a bad sore throat & puffy eyes… wasn’t feeling too well… went for brunch with mom at a restaurant opposite our shanghai apartment… we didn’t have very much time coz I booked a cab to the shanghai train station at 1215pm…
We went to the 点菜区 where they displayed pictures of the dishes…it’s just like looking at an upsized version of a menu… except that it’s more troublesome coz you gotta walk to that place with the photos… for certain special items, they would have the actual food sample there on display though… we ordered a broccoli with abalone and a special sauce chicken… both dishes were very nice… there were many pieces of abalone but few pieces of broccoli… mom was saying that perhaps it’s because broccoli’s one of the more expensive vegetables here… but seriously, it cant be more expensive than the abalone right…? -_-“ as for the chicken, it was a tad salty, but went very well with rice… the chicken meat was really tender and the sauce was nice… =) since I’ll be traveling back to nanjing alone, mom decided to order takeaway from the restaurant for my dinner… ordered a 脆皮鸭(sorry, forgot to take pics) which is basically roasted duck, with its skin sliced off to wrap in popiah skin along with some raw vege… the honeyed bbq kinda sauce was really nice… like those you eat with roasted pig… =)
点菜区
ABALONE with a bit of broccoli
special sauced chicken
well, after lunch, i headed for the shanghai train station alone... my mom was leaving shanghai to return to sg later in the afternoon, so i couldnt send her off... which was perhaps a gd thing... coz i cant imagine how teary the scene at the airport would have been... *sigh* but well, this kinda marked the start of my lone journey in china... nanjing, specifically... where i'll be staying alone in the big apartment, & every day, it'll just be work & home, work & home...
as i made my way to the departure area at the shanghai train station, i was very wary of my surroundings... i carried my backpack in front and kept my distance from strangers around... it was intimidating i must say... it's not easy to recognise that i'm a foreigner... purely by looks or dressing... so i really had to be constantly watchful coz i never know when i might be preyed on by someone nearby... i gathered my emotions and tried to look calm and composed wherever i went... hoping to look as if i knew perfectly what i was doing, where i was going, etc... i took special effort not to look lost or confused, or to let any of my emotions show on my face, lest i seem like a vulnerable and easy target...
i guess my efforts paid off coz i eventually made it to nanjing unscathed, with all my belongings were intact... gd job...
i arrived in nanjing at around 4+pm, which was still early... my landlord told me previously that nanjing supposedly has wireless coverage throughout the city, so i decided to try my luck at the nearby kfc to see if they had wireless internet access... unfortunately, it didnt have... there was quite a queue at macs, and when it was my turn, i first asked if they had wireless net, the server told me no. so i decided, ok, nvm, just anyhow order something so she wouldnt be thinking...why are you wasting my time asking this kinda qns?! i still got a queue of customers to serve! so the smart me pointed to this picture of a fries & drink which said 6RMB... but apparently, it was referring to the price to pay to upsize your meal or something... so she rattled off in mandarin...something about ala carte orders costing more, suggested some dunno-wat meal with dunno-wat chicken for 23.50RMB, which was more worth it, blar3... i couldnt really catch half of wat she was saying coz her words spat out like a bullet train... and since there was dis long queue of people behind me, i didnt dare to take more time to think about what i wanted or to ask her to repeat, so i juz quickly went 'okok...can...' in the end, she served me a 10 pc chicken mcnuggets meal!!! omg... i'm sure i can finish it lah... argh... felt cheated... first meal i settle myself & i kena "cheated"... how to survive 5 more months liddat... >_<
coz of the olympics craze, macs has this promotion thingy going on... their drinks will have this tab which you can tear from the paper cup, and it'll show the name of a particular olympics event & a macs food item. so if china wins a medal in the indicated sport, you can use the tab to redeem that specified food item...hahaha... details of the 'game' are shown on that piece of paper on the tray...
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