Wednesay June 18th 2008 - NOODLES AND BARS

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Wednesday June 18th 2008
21 people in my elementary program...80 more are coming soon!!!
• Walked pretty for to a place called GO ME electronics SUPPPPPPPPPPERstore
• Changed 800 bucks to RMB..scary..thought I was gonna get robbed haha.
• Did a reception lunch at some buffet..pretty good, gave us free sashimi..too bad the giant clam gave me diarrhea ^_^
• The library and international center is HUGE and crazyyy and there were mini koi everywhere haha. You could pet them.
• Chilled.
• I ended up planning a trip to a place called Noodle Loft and it took us like 3 hours to get there to plan etc. Since I was the only in our elementary group that can speak a little Chinese I ended up being the translator for the little adventure. I took 15 minutes giving four taxis directions and told them to make a train and follow each other..haha..they got pretty pissed at me. At this point everyone was pretty restless and annoyed and pissed at me because the place they dropped us off was some run down piece of shit noodle place…but then I asked some random guy and he showed us where it was. The place was SOOOOOOOOOo fucking nice that everyone was just like WOW…it was well worth the wait.
• The place was highly recommended..the first level was a bar area where you can watch the people make noodles..its pretty freaking awesome. The second level was more booths and stuff..the whole place had crazy as décor and awesome service. We took up two booths.
• The place was really good because you share dishes, but the best part is that you WATCH them make your noodles fresh and then you eat them. Its SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better when they are fresh wwow. And when you get them, they are just plain noodles, so you go to the condiment bar and choose from like 8 sauces and 8 toppings to put on your nonodles to customize it..simply amazing.
• Pictures are on facebook
• After that we asked the waitress, who was really freaking nice and wouldn’t accept our tips.
• She told us there was a bar/karaoke/restaurant like 10 min. walk south and even drew us a map…too bad it took us FOURTY minutes and it seems like Chinese people are used to walking so 40 minutes seems like 10… haha..again during the walk everyone got restless and annoyed
• But when we got there we were like WHOAAAA COOOOOOOOOOOOol it was fucking awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. We ended up just going to a bar next door. Awesome décor. Nothing I’ve ever seen before.
• I got my first Mojito!!!
• Pictures on facebook will probably have a better explanation.

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