Wednesday, November 12, 2008

dad's visit day 3 & 4 =)

Day 70 – 28 Sept (Sun)

Had a simple breakfast with my dad this morning... (very unlike yesterday =P) haha... we just ordered some noodles and a xiao long bao... after breakfast, we went to the optical shops near my SH apartment to make new specs! Haha... I made a new pair of frameless specs, while my dad made himself a pair of reading glasses... =)

We took the mtr to 陆家嘴... showed dad the oriental pearl, which he took a couple of beautiful shots of... then we walked around the huge super brand mall again... and my dad also remarked about the countless restaurants in the whole shopping mall... in the end, we had lunch at lisboa restaurant, serving hk-portugese cuisine... ordered quite a few dishes...food was good! =)

courtesy of my dad...the oriental pearl... 东方明珠塔 =)


蚝油芥兰 (oyster sauce kailan)

delicious portugese egg tarts!

澳门炒饭 (macau fried rice) NICE! =P

海鲜咖喱 (seafood curry) very special curry! =)

海鲜汤 (seafood soup)


after lunch, we went to check out a new place called 蓝村路 (lancun rd)... there were quite a couple of steamboat restaurants but we weren’t really hungry yet... so we just continued walking... by the time we kinda felt hungry, there wasn’t any decent restaurant in sight... so we settled for this small Chinese eatery and ordered simple stuff for dinner... the food was cheap but average... didn’t look too hygienic... so yah, it wasn’t a great meal... haha... we had a shengjian bao, a bowl of 酒酿丸子 (small glutinous rice balls in a soup with a bit of wine), and a bowl of noodles... headed back to the hotel after that... =)

Day 71 – 29 Sept (Mon)

Breakfast was fantastic once again... haha... we had hairy crabs AGAIN! Haha... and this time round, not 2, but 3!! Haha... sinful indeed... but well, my dad was saying, since it’s sorta the last day we’ll be spending together in shanghai (before we fly to xi’an and then to nanjing), we shall just pamper ourselves and savour the hairy crabs once more before my dad returns to Singapore... =P we savoured the crabs slowly back in the comfort of the hotel room... after that, we went 七浦路 (qipu rd) to shop around... my dad has actually been there before as well, coz it was part of our tour package in our family trip a few years back... since it was the weekend, the whole place was really crowded... at qipu rd, there’re actually quite a no. of shopping malls congregated in that area, selling more or less similar stuff, with lotsa imitation goods... so it wasn’t really nice to shop... there wasn’t anything we wanted to get anyway... so after walking around a bit, we went to a street nearby where there were some small eateries and food stalls... we just had some snacks like mutton satay, some small bun thingy that was pretty nice =) and since there wasnt really anything decent for lunch, we headed for some ajisen ramen at a nearby shopping centre... hahaha...

After quite a tiring afternoon of shopping, we went back to the hotel to slack for a bit... then dinner was settled at this Chinese restaurant opposite my SH apartment called 跃民酒店... I’d been there with my mom previously... so we ordered a few similar dishes... and tried some new stuff too... =)

abalone & broccoli

水晶鸡

红烧鱼 (braised fish)

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