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Chicken and Rice Cream Omelette - Danbo
It's interesting that at most meals nobody really drinks anything during them, variety in culture I guess but I have to bring a nalgene with me everywhere for water. Drinks cost the same as food here. It felt like I didn't do too much today, but I guess I did. I had Differential Equations recitation around 8am and needed to have done some of the homework problems to follow along and ask questions, but I'll jump on that later...hopefully. I just messed around on my laptop, updating stuff, searching for events on shanghaiexpat.com and cityweekend.com.cn, catching up on this blog, and I finally finished converting ALL my music (after I deleted Itunes). Now I can listen to all of it, both on my laptop and my new Sansa - bboyin time is comin soon now son! And I know the event too, some Jazz and breakbeat night at a place called the Shelter, supposedly a renovated bomb shelter!
Ethan, Ted, Sean, and I headed to Metro city for some food and postcards. Traffic is insane here! Nobody follows the traffic laws or lights (especially not the bikers/mopeders). I would hate to have to drive here, you just kind of walk with the group, though there are some traffic cops in addition but cars don't stop for them really either, ha. I saw a car fit in the fenced off area at one intersection for
mopeds/bikes and use it to turn right faster. Just see the vid below the line break. My phrasebook actually came in handy since Ethan and Ted couldn't remember the word for postcards, ha. We ate at a Japanese style restaurant Danbo with too many different types of egg dishes to remember. Heading back, we passed by a dessert/bakery store called "Bread Eats" that we just had to try. They had this one chocolate dish that was kinda staring at me, but fondly, not like the glares I've been getting being the whitest looking guy in our group, haha. It was Amazing.
I also had the cultural class Chinese Cooking today. Way too many students in a tiny little kitchen. We were learning how to cook a very, very spicy "tdofU" (tofu's pronuctiation, ha) dish. It was one of the few situations that being taller did not help because I had to stand in the back and couldn't see crap, just had to wait and memorize the translation. Nithish made a video though, and it was cool to see the graduate and LBAT students from Tech in the class. They were great translators. I left right after getting to
try the dish, cause there wasn't enough space for everyone to cook and not enough food - I thought we'd have enough here for dinner each Tuesday! Oh well, if the Martial Arts class is good, I'll probably drop cooking.
A few others left early too, including, Derryl who we followed to a family style restaurant on Pu Yan road. The table had a large spinning plate in the middle where the dishes went and everyone just spun and grabbed what they wanted. Oh and just to let you know, there are cats all over the SJTU campus, kind of like squirrels at Tech, but cuter. However, still hilariously random, a waitress ran past holding a tabby cat by its neck skin and threw it in a room off to our right. It didn't look like she wanted to kill or throw it out, it seemed like they perhaps kept that cat to keep the mice/rats out, haha. But it found it's way out and under out table - it was soo cute and rubbed on our legs, but I guess it was unsanitary and the staff really wanted it out. Derryl finally lured it out with chopped
sticks and they took it away. The food we had picked out turned out to be a bit spicy and not much so we ordered some more including a dish which sounds like "O" (ou?). It was a very sweet egg dish, and although I love spicy food, it was a nice, unexpected relief. They brought out one dish that they didn't charge us for and that we didn't order, some form of meat in a very small bowl...I'm hoping it wasn't the cat, too prove that they killed it, ha.
That night I passed out around 11pm, pretty early, I guess the meal got me a bit tired
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Well if all else fails you at least have your chocolate to fall back on. This city seems to be an architectural heaven for the modern builder as well as ecclectic and historical designers