Day 2 in Shanghai!

Morning! heh, sooo, continuing for my Day 2 in Shanghai! today we spent time in Shanghai and Suzhou, which is pretty far from each other! about a 3 hours ride (pardon me, i forgotten the exact time for the trip already!)

In the morning, the first place we went to is Nanxiang XiaoLongBao Resturant. I've heard about it from almost everyone who went there before! like "oh you must try! it's famous, but i think it's only so so", haha, and yeaaaa, my parents find it so so too! only me, a sucker for xiaolongbao, who thinks it's fantastic! hahaha.

Nanxiang Restaurant! 


the xiaolongbao is considered cheap if converted in SG dollars!heh, but i forgotten the price already! ):oh and we ordered the tangbao which is like.. hmmm, one is enough!





SingHui was auctally scalded by the tangbao because she drank too fast even though she knew she shouldn't, but it's hard to avoid!

 my grandparents who initially wanted to share one together but in the end, it's my parents who shared one!



drinking the tangbao! auctally the tangbao is really full of soup, a bit not very appetizing to us.. it's okay to drink for a while, but after some time, it's like, i wanna chew on something! xD










 next up is Xiaolongbao! my parents and Singhui thinks that this wasn't really fanastic! but argh, i just like it loh!


 oh, speaking of which, we were auctally given only 1.5 hours to shop! and we spend 40 minutes in Nanxiang, next i went to get my SD card, which is a good buy! The person quote me RMB400 (which is close to SGD80) for a 4GD SD Card. I immediately refused to get it, so he asked me "how much would you like to have it at?", and I answered "RMB80". "RMB80 is too low already!"(mum joined in) : (to me) how much does this cost in SG?me: (think a while) I can get this for less than SGD$20shopkeeper: how about this? RMB90 is the lowest i can go.Me: DEAL! though it wasn't a fantastic deal, because i can get this in SG for perhaps $20 (didn't really check, but ebay has it for about $18), I'm pretty happy with it because I really need another memory card in China!  after getting the memory card, I passed by the stall (picture as above) and immediately brought 7 for my colleagues. well, it's actually buy 6 get 1 free (which means a total of 7), so I got 7 instead of just 6, which the person didn't realized it until I asked him to get me an 8th box to put the cravings. -.- well, to conclude it, it means i almost got another free one. :p oh, and it's actually a craving where we get to crave names out, so I got the person to carve out my colleagues name, and for 35RMB, it comes with a frame and a box to keep it. And the time frame to make each cravings is.. *beat drum* 3 minutes! so the total time taken is close to 30 minutes, which literally made my family late again for assembly! :X


 while getting to our coach, we passed by this street full of really cheap thrills which quality were.. not very ideal. so we didn't shop at all.





 next we went to the famous 内画馆 to view the famous painting which were paint from the inner part of the crystal. and on the 2nd floor is where they sell PiXu, and that's where my family spent a fortune on it).  heh, I carry my PiXu around and felt pretty insecure with it after returning to Singapore. and I brought 2 for my colleagues in the video shop.


afterwhich we came here to have our lunch. the lunch was pretty good, at least the rice is good! xD

strawberries outside the restaurant where a family was selling, and my mother brought pretty a lot for us to eat. After lunch, we went to Suzhou, which is a 3/5 hours trip from Shanghai (couldn't remember the period of time taken actually). The first place we went to is 耦园 in Suzhou, which 寓有夫妇归田隐居之意. heh, lazy to think and translate.

 this flower only blossom in Winter, so we were considered lucky to be able to see it.

 the back alley leading to the garden..
























this boat trip was really heh, not worth it, cos it's like just a 100m boat ride to the entrance and ta-da, OVER.






















after nightfall which happens at 5pm-ish, the local tour guide took us to their shopping place, where most shops were closing/closed and we brought some stuff from the medicinal center and other than that, we were busy avoiding the firecrackers.








 then, after dinner, we returned to our hotel, which is OMG DAMN SHIOK NICE hotel which is based in the Suzhou Industrial Park, the one which Singapore held a 65% --> 35% shares. The area we were staying at was considered to be the prime of the Industrial Park and the buildings really had those Singapore feel, but the temperature, well, reminds us we were rather far away from Singapore.


 the damn shiok bath tub where I spend 30 minutes in it because it was so awwww!



our room, spacious and comfortable!and comes with free wifi where I can finally get online to MSN but not facebook!


our tour guide with firecracks!










 my parents with Singhui trying to write our surname but it is so totally not like it at all! :p





after the firecrackers, I asked to walk around but no one budges, so that's the furthest i can go, which is actually just outside the hotel.


my parents acting king and queen at the floor level! :D