Oct 12th - Shanghai Day 4

My director arrived yesterday midnight. So today, we spend most of the time in the exhibition to look into the new products. Sometimes, it's great to have at least 2 people to visit this kind of show. Some discussion can really stimulate good ideas in terms of product planning. I guess that's the reason why people said that you can't create things without going out to observe people.

After that, we started our city tour of the day. We went to try the famous 南翔小籠包 finally. The taste is slightly different because of the crab meat but I find the ones from Crystal Jade is better as that is not so oily. : ) Maybe I'm used to the food in Singapore already.

After that, we went to this famous area called New World (新天地). Basically, this is a area with all the traditional shanghainese buildings but they renovate the place as the perfect dining and drinking area with the special atmosphere.

Quite surprised to see a familiar shop here. Pauliner is a famous beer store in Singapore that most of my friends like a lot but good to see something familiar la. : )

We actually came here for a good restaurant called XinJiShi recommended by Ying. Seems this restaurant is really famous and provided very nice good as the queue is so long. We have waited for almost one hour to get into the restaurant. Three of us just order 4 dishes. We thought the main dish is actually the strewed meat and just added in a couple others. In the end, the other 2 dishes the crab meat bean curt and the chilly thing are the one shocking us when seeing the bill. Anyway, this is quite a nice restaurant indeed and would recommend you guys to try if you are in Shanghai.

Anyway, was planning to leave on Sat but decided to go back tomorrow as some projects going on back in Singapore. In summary, Shanghai is really a big city with big area and huge population. However, maybe I just growed up and worked in another 2 big cities also. So it's not so impressive to me as the infrastructure is not as good as Taipei and Singapore. Nevertheless, this is still a fruitful trip to me and finally, I visited China after so many countries. : )