the young wans

Saturday
First stop: Tailors at 399 Lu Jia Bang Lu (陆家浜路)

- tailored a cream suit for 500RMB
- two shirts for 190RMB
- in total we tailored 6 suits and one or 2 more items.

Then lunch: dim sum.


Total bill? 29RMB

Second stop: Qi Pu Lu (七普路) or Cheapo Road as we call it.

-no pictures- too crowded.
There were just stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls and stalls of stuff.

If you’d been to shanghai’s old xiang yang market or bangkok’s chatuchak, think that x 5 levels x 8 buildings or so. Full of shoes, bags, clothes.

But we got tired of battling the crowd and having to haggle. Probably better to go on a weekday.

Back to our room for a short rest and unload shopping bags. Then to dinner at a restaurant which had scrumptious coffee pork ribs the last time I went. But that was 3 years ago and apparently they don’t have it anymore but dinner was still pretty good. Just three dishes and we were full already – stewed pig trotters, tou fu, and pork ribs.

Third stop: Nanjing Lu and The Bund

Good weather for walking. Nice pictures. Ventured to the extreme left of the bund (towards the bridge over to Hong Kou district) where they had nice chill out cafes. We also ate bing tang hu lu – the thing my friends and I saw in Beijing years ago and all clamoured to try! Malt covered haw berries (I think). The rest had one each and then I finished up the stick. (those silly things didn’t like it but hooray for me.) Yummy.