Reunion with My Darling

Finally! After 25days of absence, we're reunited once again! The best of all is that dear's spending one month time with me in Shanghai. Yay!

Fetched dear first thing early in the morning and spent the first day showing him around Shanghai.

Our first meal was cantonese dimsum brunch in Bi Feng Tang at Huai Hai Zhong Lu. The dimsum was pretty nice. I'd recommend the Har Gow, Feng Zaw (Phoenix Claw) and Nan Gua Bing (Pumpkin Cake). For the drink, get the Yen Yang (mix of tea and coffee). After the sumptuous meal, we walked around Xiang Yang Market.

Sunday is not a good place to go anywhere in Shanghai esp Xiang Yang Market! It was really crowded then. Luckily the weather was nice and cooling, causing the trip to be more enjoyable anywhere. Bought a scarf for myself and some socks for dear. We'd come back another day when it's less crowded to get more stuff :p

Headed to Cheng Huang Miao by bus - our first time taking bus around. Strangely I felt real safe, perhaps because dear's around :) The bus ride costs RMB2 for aircon bus and RMB1 for non-aircon. It's a single price for all destinations. The whole journey destinations are given on the window and the next stop is displayed through a LCD in Chinese. So long you understand Chinese, taking a bus shouldn't be a problem.

Cheng Huang Miao is really a tourism place, filled with stores mostly selling jewelries, pearls, jades, antiques etc. The place reminded me of Chinatown.. Nothing really attracted us there though. The Yu Yuan garden outside the Cheng Huang Miao resembled Istana Park in Dhoby Ghout. Spent a real short while walking around and decided to move to Wai Tan instead.

We strolled along Wai Tan for a short while. The place is filled by tourist. The scenery was nothing fantastic. I found the scenery from the other side is much better. Dear commented on how Wai Tan reminded him of One Fullerton and Istanbul.. The only differences are that there aint any Kebab sellers and most of the people are white -_-'

The evening was spent taking few pictures and strolling along the riverside at Bin Jiang Da Dao in Pu Dong district. The scenery was great but both of us were too tired to enjoy. Had a coffee-muffin break at Starbucks in the end :)

We wrapped the day by shopping for groceries at Zhen Da Guang Chang, the biggest mall in Shanghai. Bought food for the night and breakfast for the next morning - cereals, milk and yoghurts! Yes I'm into HEALTHY lifestyle now! ;p

All in all, I'm real happy that dear is around! We're going to discover more of Shanghai and the nearby cities together :) Next week is national day holiday :) We plan to go to HangZhou and perhaps SuZhou, ZhouZhuang etc. So excited!! :D