A grocery on Huai Hai Rd 淮海路, Shanghai

Checking a local store or grocery would simply give you an idea of how life it is with the local people, especially for me to smell the food. That's really exciting for me. I really wanna grab a bucket of the drunken crab (photo 1) & preserved salty pork and golden ham (photo 8), as well as some jelly fish (photo 11).

Horrible dinner at Wan Hao Xuan 萬豪軒, JW Marriott Shanghai

Due to my good impression of The Pearl of Marriott City Wall Beijing, I thought the Chinese restaurants of this JW Marriott shouldn't be missed. The answer is "so wrong"! This one is double worse than Wan Hao of JW Marriott HK and BKK.

First the drunken chicken - it's not either with any wine or chicken flavour. So I asked the waitress "is it a drunken chicken?". I pointed out it's not with any wine and chicken flavour. Then she replied "our drunken chicken is in a special cooking style that light taste is the main point.". I kept on telling her "this is Shanghai and this dish is a symbolic dish of Shanghai cuisine. This is not about the cooking style. It's about the essence of this renowned dish...etc.". Then she handed me a comment form to fill in. At first, I did write down what I feel. However, after the other dishes, I crossed out my comments and decided this restaurant doesn't deserve a single word of comments. The pork terrine is too hard and yet a strong smell of fridge. The soup is average. Another horrible dish is the stir fried beef. Check how small the portion is. Besides, the thickening is in a wrong step not even a beginner chef should make this mistake. See how those thickening be in bits and pieces. That means the chef didn't stir in well.

As I left the restaurant, I found out it got a best restaurant. Really amazing!

陸家嘴路 - Lu Jia Tsui Rd (Financial district) Shanghai

This area of Pudong is the finanial district of Shanghai city. Quite a number of Hong Kong property investments can be seen here. Check photo 2 - the building in the middle looks a bit familiar and what's more in coincidence a Standard Chartered Bank is next to the right of it.

日落浦西 - Sunset at Pu Xi, Shanghai

法租界，英租界 ﹣ 這些字已全然埋在歷史課本裡。 畢竟黃浦江將兩岸時空頓挫出一幅鮮明的歷史對照。對岸還是彼岸，令人困惑，令人著迷。背影日落下的浦西，晒褪一切界線，拾回自己，耀目炫生。

The look, Jumeirah Himalaya Shanghai

The middle part of the hotel complex is said to be some roots, meaning this marks the hotel planting itself for the future. However, it gives me some kind of desert feeling, especially in the night time with all the lighting. On the right hand side of the hotel, there are a rice field and some grass-made dragon and fishing/farming art. All these stand for the ancient China and the fundamental things of our living. On the last photo, it's an image from the hotel post card.