We had lessons in the morning, then William and I went 静安寺 after that coz I had to go to my company’s shanghai office to settle some stuff. Linked to 静安寺 mtr station was this shopping mall with a huge supermart selling lotza jap stuff at the basement… there was a lot of imported jap foodstuff and other imported products from the western countries… you can imagine how tempted I was to buy something from there, but most of the stuff was really ex coz no. 1: jap stuff, no. 2: imported stuff in china... therefore, conclusion: resist temptation… >_<
静安寺
We initially wanted to have lunch at the cantonese restaurant upstairs that I had visited with my mom previously, coz the food was really good, but we saw many restaurants at the basement, and decided to try one of them instead… since it was around lunchtime, there were queues of people at every restaurant, so we picked this Chinese restaurant which looked pretty gd, and got a queue no. after waiting for about 15-20mins, we were finally shown to a table, famished. We quickly ordered a plate of mixed roasted meat and a bowl of 鲜虾馄饨面(shrimp wanton noodles) to share… the roasted meat was pretty gd, from what I recall, the restaurant upstairs was better… as for the 鲜虾馄饨面, it was quite nice too, except that that the wanton seemed to be mainly pork rather than shrimp… hmm… but well, still a nice meal… =)
mixed roasted meat 烧味 - roasted duck, roasted pork, chinese sausage, chicken
鲜虾馄饨面 shrimp wanton noodles
As we took a walk around the supermart selling lotza jap stuff to digest our food after lunch, we saw this unagi omelette roll that we couldn’t resist and threw it into our shopping trolley… 25RMB for 4 pieces… =P after we left the shopping mall and continued walking outside, we saw a nice sushi joint selling quite a lot of sushi at a rather reasonable price… so when we saw a box of 4 ebikko (shrimp roe) sushi selling for 8RMB, we didn’t hesitate much longer, & also bought it to share later…
unagi omelette roll
ebikko (shrimp roe) sushi
We went down to Raffles City at 人民广场 People’s Square coz William wanted to shop for a new pair of shoes… his old pair was rather chui, with a part of the sole tearing off… we walked around the mall and checked out several shops before going to the food court to take a break… and while at the food court, we took out the unagi omelette roll and ebikko sushi that we’d bought earlier to eat, and I was busy on the phone the whole time, confirming my juniors’ flight details with my mom! 3 of my hc tkd juniors would be coming over to visit William and I in china sometime in dec!! they would be coming down after their As! Haha… we’re really excited about their visit coz we didn’t expect it to really work out, but thankfully, we can be expecting them in 3 months’ time! =P in the meantime, they’ll have to survive their prelims and As before they can reward themselves with loads of fun in china, with fantastic tour guides like us! =P
some pics at 人民广场 People’s Square...
me outside raffles city...
haha… back to the day’s events, William eventually bought himself a pair of nike sports shoes, and so we left raffles city to walk along the streets outside… from a distance, we smelt a familiar stench which we recognized immediately… 臭豆腐！haha… smelly beancurd… true enough, just ahead of us were a few rdside stalls selling food like 臭豆腐, 锅贴 （fried dumpling）, sausages, dim sum, etc. we bought a bit of 臭豆腐 & 锅贴 to share… both of which weren’t really nice… we’ve definitely tried much better ones elsewhere…
臭豆腐 smelly fermented beancurd
after adding some sweet and spicy sauce...
锅贴 fried dumpling
we continued walking along, trying to find the Chinese restaurant where William went with his parents and his mom’s Chinese colleague for dinner last week… we finally reached the restaurant, called 上海人家(supposedly called TNARUATSER in english according to its signboard) and just ordered a side dish of braised mushrooms and the fish that William kept talking about after trying it that day… apparently, it’s a dish called 沸煮鱼, which is a big bowl of freshwater fish slices soaked in LOTS OF oil, chilli, pepper seeds and other misc spices … the fish was especially smooth probably coz of all the oil, and the meat was really nice and tender… there was no weird “mud taste” of the freshwater fish, probably because the spices used had effectively covered up whatever unpleasantly distinctive taste that many people dislike about freshwater fish… although the fish was really oily, and we had to spend a little time draining away the oil and filtering out the other spices in the bowl, I believe it’s still a dish worth trying coz it’s a very special and popular shanghainese dish, full of local flavour… =P so anyway, apart from our main course, we ordered a plate of mushrooms as well… when it was served, we tried and both of us didn’t like it. Firstly, it was cold. Secondly, it was sweet. Yucks… so we requested for the waiter to heat it up for us… the waiter however shot us a rather bewildered and confused look, as if we’d made some ridiculous request… but well, he nodded and left with the plate of mushrooms anyway… shortly after he walked away, I thought about why he reacted in that way… and I vaguely recalled seeing the picture of the mushrooms somewhere in the front section of the menu, then it suddenly dawned on me… did we order a cold dish without realizing it, and got upset that our cold dish was cold, and even requested for the waiter to heat up our COLD dish?! Omg… no wonder he looked so stunned… totally made a fool of ourselves lah… bet the waiter must’ve been wondering what these 2 youngsters were trying to do, ordering a cold dish and expecting it to be hot… -_-“ really 摆乌龙… malu… hahaha… and well, later, as we left the restaurant after our meal, we decided to check the menu placed at the entrance again… and true enough, the mushrooms we’d ordered were supposed to be a cold dish... hahaha… =P
cold dish turned hot... >_< braised mushrooms...
沸煮鱼 fish slices cooked with various spices and oil
上海人家 (TNARUATSER???)
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