November 2009

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Dinner at Home on November 26, 2009
It sometimes takes me a while to get in a picture-taking mood. It was halfway through my second week before I felt I ran into something so great it must be documented: this delicious dish Di Yin made of eggplant and pork. It was one of the best things I've eaten all year. When I order an eggplant dish at a Chinese restaurant, I'd be deliriously happy if I were presented with this version.	At the same meal, Di Yin made a cucumber salad, the second time she's made it thus far in Shanghai. A good, simple, pleasing dish, I could eat it everyday.
Dinner at How Way Restaurant on November 29, 2009
This restaurant, How Way, wasn't a special destination. It simply was an outing when I happened to have my camera and felt inclined to use it.	Large sliced mushroom, served slightly warm.	A bowl--larger than Di Yin's head--of sliced fish and bean sprouts in oil. The fish was silky, soft, smooth, and, surprisingly, not particularly oily. Good.	An ordinary squash (mistranslated on the menu as pumpkin) stuffed with slightly-sweet glutinous rice, but neither the dish nor the rice were very sweet. I would not classify the dish as dessert. The sauce was thickened and orange-flavored.
Jing'an Temple and Vicinity at Night
Jing'an Temple illuminated at night.	The smooth curves of a fancy (Japanese-owned, I'm told) mall atop a fancy supermarket (Fresh Mart).	Looking north along Wanhangdu Road.	The fountain on the southeast corner of Huashan Road and West Nanjing Road.
A neat, layered, colored building I spotted in this vicinity. I took this picture in January when I happened upon the road when it was lit up.	Looking east along the elevated highway toward downtown from the pedestrian overpass at Huashan Road and Yan'an Road.	West of the pedestrian overpass, looking east. I took this picture in January.	The next month, I took more pictures of Jing'an Temple at night, when it was decorated for the holidays.