Waking up in Shanghai

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We wake up and decide to go to the coffe house next to the hotel to have breakfast. We walk there and is SO expensive! A huge bowl of noodle soup (yes, they sell all kinds of food in coffee houses here) costs the same that a cup of coffee! around US$3.5.

We are sipping our coffee and suddenly there is music in Spanish playing in the background... Omar proudly identifies the group singing; is "Trio Los Panchos" a well known trio from Mexico that through the years changed singers and had not only mexicans but also puertoricans. The music is melancolic and romantic, nothing like the vibrant Shanghai that is starting the wake up.

The waitress comes Omar joking says that he likes the music. She looks back at him and with no smile whatsoever in spite of Omar's smile (Omar has not realized yet that in Shanghai people do not recognized Latinos, for them we are probably Indian, Malaysian or "Westerners"). Anyways, she looks at him and says: "INDIAN MUSIC". Omar almost falls from his chair saying: "What?"
-"Indian music" she says louder.
She has left us totally confused but laughing.
-Hey! I said to Omar, maybe it does sound like indian music! Chinese can not understand a word, is slow and there is always a guitar playing... Maybe Spanish sounds like indian to them!

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[anonymous]

Nice!!
I love your journal! What a great idea! We want to see more pictures LLA-O-MEEEEEEEN! Sorry about the 26 hairs (guacala)... Abrazos, Martha - Martha