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| Breakfast at Stand on Street
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| For a late breakfast, I had a jian bing (a typical Beijing street food).
It's a crepe, 14 inches in diameter, filled with green onion, chilies,
egg, previously fried bread, bean paste, and pickled vegetables. I
liked it. I also liked watching it made fresh in front of me.
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| Lunch at 1+1 Restaurant
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| Several minutes later, we sat down at 1+1 Restaurant, a neighborhood
place near our apartment, to complete our breakfast / have an early
lunch. We had a good wonton soup.
| We also had sheng jian bao. These were a sharp contrast to the ones one I had a few
days previously at Yang's; these were more like the ones I enjoy in
Flushing: doughy wrappers and a bit of soup. Good.
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| Near Home
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| A retail shopping street not far from our apartment.
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| Pudong
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| Behind Jinmao Tower is the Shanghai World Financial Center.
| One of the countless models in the Shanghai History Museum.
| A model Dangue tea shop. It's quite an elaborate, lively tea house.
The exhibit even played music.
| The Oriental Pearl TV Tower feels like the 1980s.
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| A more comprehensive picture, created by stitching together two
pictures.
| A panoramic movie of Pudong's skyscrapers as seen from the plaza of the
Oriental Pearl TV Tower.
| In contrast, this panoramic movie shows the (shorter, older) buildings
on the Shanghai proper (Puxi) side of the river. About twenty seconds
in, the movie begins showing some of the famous colonial buildings on
The Bund. At twenty-five seconds: gotta love the advertising barge.
| One segment of the Riverside Promenade.
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| Jinmao Tower
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| In a thunderstorm, the view from atop the Jinmao tower toward the
Oriental Pearl TV Tower and across the river to Puxi.
| Another perspective of Pudong (nearby) and Shanghai proper (afar).
| And another.
| Looking south at Pudong's residential high-rises. The Huangpu River is
at right.
The reflection in the glass is the inside of the
viewing deck.
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| A zoomed-out picture of Pudong's skyscrapers.
| A Hyatt is in the top section of the Jinmao Tower. This looks down to
the Hyatt lobby from the top of the tower. The Hyatt lobby is actually
the 55th floor of the building.
| In the basement of the tower, I had this snack at one of the
restaurants. This is a "pan-fried corn cake with pine nuts." I thought
it was a waste of calories: bread with a hint of corn and a few pine nuts
(precisely three in each cake). But, I ate it because I was hungry, not
having eaten a proper lunch.
Incidentally, much later I had a
proper version of this dish. It should be corn kernels held loosely
together with egg white. That is, it should've been 90% corn.
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| More Pudong
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The sudden rainstorm caused flooding on this pedestrian walkway, one of
the few that crossed this major road. Luckily, construction debris
(cement block, wood plank) helped people cross.
Look at all the
umbrellas.
| An action shot.
| The Oriental Pearl TV Tower at dusk.
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| Dinner at 1+1 Restaurant
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| River shrimp. A Shanghainese specialty. Good, with a very clean
taste.
| River shrimp was #810, literally clear/pure pan-fried shrimp: qing1
chao3 xia1 ren2.
| Spicy cabbage and salted pork served in a hot pot. A mellow dish with
soothing cabbage.
| The menu description of the previous item. Literally, dry pot cabbage:
gan1 guo1 juan3 xin1 cai4.
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| Fodder for Tall Panorama of Oriental Pearl Tower
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