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| Breakfast
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| A garlicky steamed bun filled with chives and vermicelli noodles, and
another filled with sweet red bean paste. At the top of the picture is
fresh, good soy milk, served hot (which it isn't always).
| Various fruits.
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| Outside Our Apartment
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| People in Shanghai don't drink water out of the tap. For us, rather
than buying water and bringing it up, we found a filtered water machine
on our block and regularly refilled our water bottles from the machine.
The machine charges ~15 US cents for 5 liters of water.
| Di Yin loved buying water.
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| People's Park (Renmin Park)
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| Tree-lined, bench-lined paths in People's Park.
| Is the sunken path a walking trail or meant for water when it rains?
| Men playing games.
| A manicured, flowering part of the park.
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| A pond-side path, overlooking a pond filled with lotuses. I'll be
generous and call this excellent.
| A forested trail guarded by rocks.
| Another pond in People's Park. The building at left overlooking the
pond is a cafe.
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| Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art
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| Zhong Kangjun took scrap metal and created this model of a city.
| A movie (with sound) of a spooky room with fog pouring out of a vase.
The colors on the wall change.
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Joe Hu and Chen Yun created an interactive exhibit using SMS text messages.
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I liked a glass display of animals climbing vases. I think it was by Glass Garden Sun Liang.
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| Shanghai Art Museum
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| The end of the Shanghai Art Museum. It's in a former British racehorse
club.
| The "rent collection" courtyard contains many copper statues in
emotional poses. This is one of the two rooms of statues.
| A close-up of the desperate men being exploited by the landowner.
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| Lunch at Yang's Fry-Dumpling Shop
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| Yang's Fry-Dumpling Shop, where I had lunch. Although the line is short
in this photograph, it was a dozen people deep when I was there.
| Yang's dumplings (sheng jian bao). I watched them being made. They were
first shallow-fried, then steamed.
This was my lunch. (The
dumplings are much bigger than they appear in this picture.)
| These sheng jian bao were like xiao long bao (XLB) (soup- and meat-filled
dumplings with a noodle wrap) but fried on one side. There were tons of
milky broth inside these dumplings--more than in many XLBs I've had,
which are known as the soup-filled dumplings--, though the broth was too
rich and fatty for my liking.
These sheng jian bao are nothing
like the ones I
get from Flushing. Those, while also slightly fried, have more of a
bready wrapper and a relatively little bit of liquid inside.
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| Shanghai Museum
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| A 360-degree panoramic movie of People's Square. The movie begins and
ends with the Shanghai Museum (which was designed to look like a bronze
vessel, like many bronzes it contains within).
| This wine vessel is over three thousand years old.
| Stay away from my food!
| The label attached to item in the previous photograph.
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| A movie, taken a low-resolution mainly for the sound, of bell chiming.
| Additional ancient bronzes.
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| Ancient Buddhist sculptures.
| If you look very closely at the halo in the full-sized version of this
image, you can spot little Buddhas in the halo. (Obviously, I'd never
have spotted this on my own -- one of the benefits of an audio tour.
Additionally, the audio tour explained what each figure in this display
represents.)
| | Aside from retaining some color--most statues did not--, this is a
typical example of a piece in this gallery.
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