…with a strange craving for char siew pao from a Chinese coffeeshop back home, washed down with a cham ping, meen teem. Maybe with yao char koay on the side.
And then I wished I could dig into a bowl of ha meen or yue wat or pork noodle.
Or maybe all three.
Which got me thinking about [...]
Hoegaarden, Kilkenny, Strongbow Cider, among other beers, on tap. RMB 45 (RM 22) for half pint, which strangely looks about the size of a full pint back home in KL. The full pint goes for RMB 70, (RM 34) but considering it’s Happy Hour (Buy 1 Free 1) ALL night, EVERY night, it’s a bloody [...]
Tags: shanghai · shanghai food
I have some of my colleagues on MSN Messenger.
Half of them can communicate in English.
As for the other half, I type in Chinese with help from this online dictionary. It’s a bit of a struggle but we get to teach each other Chinese and English along the way. It’s fun!
Today, I had ‘peckish‘ on my [...]
Tags: mind my chinese · shanghai
CY told me about this over dinner the other day, but I finally saw it with my own eyes on this website (picture from same website).
It’s unbelievable.
A year-long design competition for the uniform and they went Mackers?
Oh well, I guess we should be thankful they didn’t decide to appear as walking Oriental Pearl Towers. That [...]
Tags: observations · shanghai
…into my mouth.
Kinda tart.
Pretty too.
But cheap (local, you see, not the prissy imported types).
I like.
Tags: shanghai food