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| Breakfast at Home
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| The steamed buns (filled with vegetables and/or meat) that Di Yin picked
up from the local steamed bun specialist at the market a block from our
apartment, along with a baked good from a nearby shop. I'd have steamed
buns for many breakfasts in Shanghai.
| One bun was filled with shepherd's purse and diced mushrooms. This
flavor was one of my favorites.
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| The Apartment
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| Our living room.
| The main bedroom.
| The view from the bedroom's window.
| The view from living room's window.
Often we saw people walking
backward (a form of tai chi) on this road or on the bridge in the early
morning.
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| Lunch at Home
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| For lunch I had a zong zi Di Yin had in the fridge. Zong zi are
triangular packages of rice and other fillings wrapped in a lotus leaf.
(The lotus leaf is at the top of this picture.) They're traditionally
steamed or boiled. This zong zi, as seen from filling on the plate,
contained braised pork and an egg.
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| Old Jewish Neighborhood
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Lintong Road.
Notice the bamboo used for construction, and also the
clothes hung outside to dry.
| Zhoushan Road. More impressions of how some people live in Shanghai.
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| The Xiahai Miao Buddhist Monastery.
| One building in the complex.
| What are these statues on the edge of the roof?
| The largest temple in the complex. This one had a buddha statue which,
counting the base, was probably 30 feet tall.
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| A sample of the omnipresent detailed woodwork.
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| Elsewhere in North Shanghai
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| A four-cornered pedestrian overpass. As I'd learn, these are common at
Shanghai's largest intersections.
| Kun Shan Park. Birds chirped. (People hung birdcages in trees.)
| Kunshan Huayuan Road.
| On one side of Tanggu Road: ramshackle buildings.
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| On the other side: a new skyscraper.
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Also on Tanggu Road, I wandered through a sizable food market with lots
of live fish.
| Pudong (a newly-developed part of Shanghai) has a distinctive skyline.
| Looking down Suzhou Creek.
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| Dinner near Lu Xun Park
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| The more-modern area on Sichuan Road, a ten minute walk from our
apartment.
| Our dish of salted pork with bitter melon (and cucumber?) at a
restaurant near Lu Xun Park. The melon was definitely bitter.
| Duck with glutinous rice. Very good. Grilled duck, with skin on one
side, attached to glutinous rice and cooked in such a way that the duck
fat permeated the rice. This definitely made it greasy though.
| The menu entry for the previous item. Literally, "lotus smelling
glutinous-rice duck" (he2 xiang1 nuo4-mi3 ya1). (It was served wrapped
in a lotus leaf.)
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