On Day 4 it rained hard.
The streets flooded up pretty badly.
The local firemen laid out hoses all over the town in an attempt to pump the flooding water out.
We visited Qingpu District, an old town which reminded me of Venice.
Still smiling despite the tortuous weather (that’s my girl!).
We passed a lot of funky looking food in the tight streets and when it came to lunch time I was a little worried.
Pork and rice which was pretty nice (the fish they served was pretty fishy though).
This lady came along to sing (for change). As soon as she had finished a guy with a Chinese violin came from nowhere and was also performing for change (the restaurant owner kicked him out though before he got to finish).
No it’s not food. On the side of the river there were ladies selling all sorts of animals caught from the river. The idea is that you buy them and set them free for good luck.
Patches at one of the many little shops.
Girl holding her shoes. My fave shot so far (wish I was using my new camera instead of the pocket camera though!).
We then headed over to an interesting art district which was full of photography studios, specialty stores and tourists. I saw this in a window, it looks a lot like the work of ilovedust (in fact it’s almost a direct rip-off of this piece).
We then headed over to the communication tower, but like the expo there was an hour wait to get to the top. None of us were willing to wait so we just took photos from outside.
Tall buildings. The tallest one is the one in the distance with a square cut out of it at the top (they call it the bottle opener). Our guide was telling us that it was designed by the Japanese and originally was meant to have a circle cut out of it at the top but the Chinese thought the circle resembled the Japanese flag too much so they replaced it with a square instead.
Later that night we headed over to a fancy area of Shanghai for dinner at T8 which was a modern Australian restaurant headed up by an Australian Chef.
The decor was amazing so we were pretty excited about what was to come.
Maybe the most open kitchen I’ve seen. You could literally watch your meal being prepared.
One of their signature dishes was “popcorn pigeon” and when it came out with pieces of popcorn adorning the plate we all had to laugh. Literal much? The pigeon was overcooked and the reduction tasted like nothing. The popcorn itself was packet popcorn. Ridiculous(ly funny!).