Snakes, Pictures and Easter Dinner

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This past weekend, Omar and I decided to start visiting some touristic atractions since most of our work in finding an apartment is done (we are just waiting to close the contract).

We went to YU YUAN GARDEN a traditional garden that has a lot of stores and a lot of food stands that according to my driver sell the best buns and dumplings in town. Omar and I thought, well, this is a great way to have our Eastern Brunch!! It did not work that way since you had to fight with thousands of chinese to get some food and then the food offered was a challenge to our "western" definition of appealing, healthy, and tasty... I have attached some pictures for your understanding of what I mean by that.

Omar got sick of the smell (prawn, squid, tofu, birdies and other dry stuff all together are not good for the appetite) and we had to leave with no dumplings, no buns but a lot of pictures and eager to have a McDonalds for lunch.

Also, my big news is that I found a friend! Yes! My friend Laureen introduced me (via e-mail) to Ally (which she met by e-mail, too) and now we have a list of stuff we need to do here that includes:
-Buying cool shoes
-Buying cool earings
-Have a tailor make us dresses
-Go to the "Fashion and Accessory" market (known as the "fake" market)
-Go to the pearls market

Ally has this very cool book that has translations for the things you DO or DO NOT want to eat at the restaurants (some of the restaurants do not have English translations of the items in the menu and you have no clue if you are ordering pig ears, shark fin, snake or brains) and guess how you say "Snake" in Mandarin... (men will love this) you say "SHE".

Enjoy the pictures!

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[anonymous]

Great Pics!
Enjoyed meeting you for coffee,Gigiy.I will try to get the menu copied soon for you.Hope that the taxi book is helpful to you.See you in Mandarin class! Ally - Ally