Vaynard's Personal & Aquatic Journal: Shanghai Day 2

Day 2 everyone snooze till about noon? My roomie Edwin being the latest to wake up at about 11.30am. Then after dragging our feet and everything, we went to a place called 回味 which was introduced by the seniors. The description given to us by the senior was "you walk down this street, the most lok kok eatery you see is 回味". At this eatery, it really look super run down, however, the food was cheap and good. 5 of us paid 36 Yuan for a meal which is approximately SGD1.80 per head? And it was damn filling. Yee Chwan ordered his favourite 番茄炒蛋 which soon become our favourite as well. We also had 宫保鸡丁 which is filled with salted peanuts, 红烧鱼片 and 家常豆腐. Very very nice food and Andrew suggested we come here more often, especially when our wallets are thinning.

回味 dishes

After filling our tummies, 5 of us (Estelle have not reach Shanghai) made our way to the police station. The route towards the police station is mad. Comparable to a route march i guess. Brings back memories during army as well. After "hollan" for 1hr plus, we finally found the police station which looks like a bank. See pic below and you'll understand.

Bank look alike police station

Random pic taken during "route march"

Then we bought our super power EZ-link card at Century Park metro station. If you thought Singapore EZ-link card is one powerful tool, you haven't seen how advance Shanghai is. Singapore EZ-link card only allow you to take bus and MRT whereas in Shanghai, this transport card allow you to take all public transport, i.e bus, metro, train, boat and taxi. Singapore has also the timer to tell you when the train arrives by the minute, but look, Shanghai goes right into both minutes and seconds, plus it is very accurate. Uber ownage! Oh ya... In the metro/MRT, there is this signage which caught my eye as well. Direct translation of English can be quite dangerous.

Shanghai Transport Card

Train Notification System

Lousy translation

In the evening, we went to 陆家嘴. That is where all the very beautifully constructed buildings of Shanghai are being constructed. We went to 正大广场 to have dinner. With so many choices available to us, we finally decided to eat 大家乐, one of the cheaper restaurant in this atas district. This restaurant serve food like 港式茶餐厅. I ordered this pork chop rice which tasted very nice. Since our house short of utensils, we decided to stunt the disposable utensils home for us to use when we need to eat takeaways or maggie mee. Our chief stunner Yee Chwan took 2 butter knife, 1 fork and 1 spoon. 强者! Then we split up to do our own shopping after our meal. I went to Popular Book Store to buy a China Travel guide for me to travel whenever I have the time. After that we went for mini shopping at supermarket together then head back to the apartment as this shopping complex is super big, about twice the size of Plaza Singapura and at least 3 levels taller. Damn shag after shopping. Must go home rest leg and prepare for the next day.