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| Around Yuyuan Garden
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| Part of the shopping complex surrounding Yuyuan Garden.
| Di Yin watches carefully as the chef gives us some stinky tofu.
| Di Yin delightedly receives the stinky tofu.
| Stinky tofu. Oddly (and unusual for stinky tofu), the tofu itself
didn't smell. Fried outside, soft inside, and tasted good
(surprisingly). Bares little resemblance to the stinky tofu I
had in San Francisco.
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| A form of xiao long bao (Shanghai soup-filled dumplings) with straws.
Clearly targeting tourists for whom soup dumplings are new, I can't
imagine these being good. This isn't how one is supposed to eat the
dumplings!
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| Temple of Town Gods (a.k.a. City Gods Temple)
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| Inside the (Taoist) Temple of the Town Gods complex, adjacent to the
garden. There was lots more to the complex around back.
| The main hall, dedicated to a Han dynasty general.
| One part of one row of minor (?) gods. Most of the statues in the
complex were painted.
| You must play this movie with sound. It's a panorama of the main
hall, starting with one row of figures, the general, and another row of
figures. The latter half of the movie zooms in on the person hidden in
a corner playing the beautiful music. I took this movie at a low
resolution because its purpose was to record the music, which is
excellent.
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| More Old Town
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| One of the innumerable streets in the bazaar surrounding the garden.
| Another part of the bazaar. (There are massive markets in these
buildings.)
| Rows upon rows of clothing on a off-the-beaten-path street in Old Town.
If I'm generous: excellent.
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| Lunch near Yuyuan Garden
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| Very fresh fish.
| The menu description of the previous dish: zao1 liu1 lu2 yu2 pian1. I
might roughly translate this smooth as thin/flaky/slices of bass treated
cooked with wine. However, I can read other translations in this. For
instance, what I translated as smooth can also mean quick-fried or even
swift-current (as in a river). Also, what I translated as cooked with
wine could also mean spoiled!
| Chicken soup: plain noodles, decent broth.
| The menu description of the previous dish: lao3 mu3 ji1 jing4 tang1
mian4, i.e., an old hen made into a hot soup with noodles.
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| More Old Town
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| Near the center point of the bazaar around Yuyuan Garden. I like the
dragons on the mall across the street.
| A close-up the dragons.
| In the same vicinity. I like the design of this row of shops.
| On Wangyima Alley, where locals buy their food.
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| Shanghai Confucian Temple
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| A map of the Shanghai Confucian Temple.
| I'd forgotten there was a Chinese art to picking and presenting rocks
(outside of rock gardens). This is along the Xuan Hallway.
| | Knotted seats and tables. I like the look.
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| Kui Xing Pagoda.
| In the Teapot Museum in the temple complex, a picture to show a sample
of the variety of styles, colors, and sizes of teapots on display. That
one on the right is large!
| A pumpkin-shaped teapot.
| A polygonal teapot, officially labeled "folded square pot."
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I think this rock looks like a dragons head. I can see the mouth and
nostrils.
The building in the background in the Confucian Study
Hall.
| I think this is the road that runs in front of the temple (Wenmiao
Road). It has a very neighborhood feel.
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| Fazangjiang Temple
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| As in Singapore, modern buildings overlook temples.
| The temple's wood glowed. It's clearly newly restored.
| A panoramic movie of the inside of one temple and the many figures
perched on the mountains on the walls.
| Scary! (tigers in the ceiling ready to pounce)
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