Went science & tech museum mrt with William today… saw the underground shopping mall, which was really quite big… the place was rather confusing coz most of the shops sold around the same stuff… imitation clothes, watches, handbags, shoes, etc. you really gotta know how to bargain there… the people will quote you damn high for the stuff if you’re a tourist… William wanted to get this blue polo tee from a shop, and the person quoted him like 100RMB!! Gosh… I knew it was bound to be overpriced, so I reminded William that he must bargain… but the blur him also didn’t know how to start….so I purposely told William in english that I found it expensive…don’t think that it’s worth it… well, you may think that the shopkeepers here wouldn’t understand English, but that’s where you’re wrong… a lot of them know quite a bit of English in order to communicate with tourists… so my point was to intentionally let the shopkeeper know that we weren’t too keen to buy the tshirt coz it was over-priced… as expected, the shopkeeper heard & quickly interrupted, asking us to quote a price based on how much we would be willing to pay… so I was like… “hmm… at most 30RMB…” but she replied that she really couldn’t sell it for that price… and said something like “小姐，我看得出你是知道价钱的，所以我也不好骗你。一口价，50块怎么样？” I was actually still unconvinced that it should still cost 50RMB, but well, the shy & softspoken William动摇-ed quite easily and already showed that he was ready to buy… so well… nothing more I could do… already helped him to bargain to half the price so if he was alright with paying 50RMB, then so be it lor… haha… but conclusion: William, you need more training to brush up on your bargaining skills!!! Shall bring you to七浦路 another time for you to have some practical sessions!!! Your current level = -1! Haha… =P
We got sick of the sci & tech place after a while coz everywhere was selling pretty much the same old stuff, and we weren’t really interested in getting any of the stuff there… so we decided to explore another place instead… went to 陆家嘴, where the famous 东方明珠塔 is located. I pointed out the structure to William coz I’ve been up the 塔 when I came shanghai with my family previously… the panoramic night view of shanghai from the top level of东方明珠塔 was really gorgeous! take in the beautiful night scenery with the famous 黄浦江 (Huangpu River) in clear view, winding between 浦东 (Pudong) and 浦西 (Puxi)… =)
东方明珠塔
陆家嘴 has this super huge shopping mall called ‘super brand mall’, ‘正大广场’… when I say huge, I mean HUUGGGEEEE… omg… it has a total of 8 levels + 2 basement levels = 10 levels!! & each level spans across a very large area… so yah, it took us super long to cover about 50% of the entire shopping mall… >_< but it’s definitely a really nice place to shop at! =P lotza shops selling a variety of stuff… not to mention the many restaurants serving all kinds of international cuisine as well… =) William & I went to this jap restaurant called 禾绿寿司 (He Lu Sushi) for dinner to satisfy our jap food cravings! It’s a chain of jap restaurants like sakae/sushi tei, with conveyor belt sushi and ala carte orders… price-wise, some of the sushi was quite cheap, but some others with sashimi were quite ex... most of the cooked food items were quite alright… other than grabbing some delicious looking sushi from the conveyor belt, each of us also ordered a stone pot soup… mine was a beef stone pot with udon, which was pretty gd! =)
super brand mall 正大广场
禾绿寿司's sushi bar
tamago roll
ebikko sushi
california maki
salmon sashimi sushi
fusion sushi - raw egg, shrimp, seasoned octopus, cucumber
chawanmushi - quite nice but rather ex... small cup for S$2
hot pot beef udon! =P
after our very filling dinner, we went to this huge supermarket at the basement.. hmm.. wat’s with this正大广场, everything just has to be HUGE… -_-“ but well, we liked the supermart! it had lotza fresh fruits, which is rather rare… coz in china… very sadly, you may not get good fruits easily even if you have the money! Coz well, most of the better quality fruits are exported to other countries so that they can be sold at a higher price… so locally, it’s uncommon to be able to find very good fruits (even those produced locally) in supermarts… =(
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