eating in shanghai

my mouth was watery as i was collaging and compiling all the photos. i think i managed to eat well despite travelling on my own in shanghai. it is better than those food prepared by tour groups actually. you can to choose on your whims and fancies and i do love trying all sorts of snacks. did i put on weight in shanghai????? not the first few days when i had hectic schedule at the expo. we only ate moderately in the expo ground as food was not cheap there. luckily dad and uncle pek are not big eaters either, so the diet was rather controlled.

this is the bakery where dad and uncle pek hang around every morning before we started our day. they always left the hotel earlier while i had my first round breakfast in the room- my 3-in-1 nescafe brought from malaysia and an apple. then it was toilet time. muahahaha without fail every day. that raisin bread was my breakfast on-the-go. i usually had that around mid morning. the apple could only last 2 to 3 hours. a really nice bakery, just 5 mins walk from the hotel. oh, and 24 hours too.


food at the expo..........expensive but there were a lot of varieties. most pavilions have their own restaurants hence you can try food from all the countries if you are willing to pay the price.
the glutton me of course could not resist....

finnish pancake...the texture is quite hard but it is not bad at all. yummy....

belgian dark chocolate. expensive right?? rmb62 for 3. it was made inside the expo during the first few days and are in limited quantities. my dad's choice of choc and he says to only buy dark chocolate the next time anyone comes back from overseas.

ice-cream, portuguese egg tart, banana and jackfruit roll and san miquel beer (the philippines pavilion), set lunch and tako yaki (squid ball) from japan industrial pavilion. those squid ball cost me rmb35 but they were good.....hot and freshly made. salivating!!!

lunch of roast duck at duck king....a franchise restaurant. the duck was good. they cut it in front of you and it was hot fresh from the oven.

french loaf from the french pavilion.

now to the streets of shanghai....walk walk walk, visit visit visit, when hungry, stop at any place which serve food....
my lunch on the first day. a special type of vermicelli like those i had in guilin. the soup is kinda oily but it tasted not that bad. and i could not finish the big bowl of course. scary ah.

aah.....shanghai's famous steamed buns filled with crab roe. nan xiang steamed bun restaurant. we queued for about 20 mins to get into this restaurant near yu yuan garden. it is really a famous one and they have takeaway and the queue for the takeaway counter is always more than 10 meters long.

some assorted biscuits and dried meat. dad could not resist and bought some meat and we had them when we were hungry. but of course, we finished everything in one day. hahaha.....we just love our meat.

pork filled bun. we don't have this type in malaysia. it is quite filling.

aaahhh....how can i resist belgian dark choc magnum?? but my favourite is still dark choc with mint which i had in australia. that was really cooling. talking about cooling, we bought slices watermelon at rmb2 a slice at shanghai old street. it was cut in front of us so ok lah.....can pass the hygiene test. it was sold from a cart in a back lane.

stinky tofu which dad also could not finish. he gobbled them up because it would be a waste of money throwing them away. hahahaa.....it was his first time trying. i passed since i have tried in hk.

our meal in qibao (7 treasures) water town. don't like the dumplings because the skin is too thick but love the trotters. see.....meat lover.

steamed mantou....very very cheap. only rmb0.80 for one. haha....i had to double check when i heard the price. that lok-lok sticks were also good. they dip them in curry water and they have all sorts of meat balls and mushrooms. the mushrooms were good not to mention healthy as well.
i don't like their rice dumplings because the rice really sticks to the leave.

spring chicken....i did not try. too much food. but love my cooling drink. aaahh......

the chinese called these ling kok.....u know the dark horn like thing you usually find during mid-autumn festival? those are very ripe ones. these are raw and taste a bit like coconut.

our lunch at zhu jia jiao....paid by elaine's uncle. so many dishes just for the 5 of us!!!
from the first row left- bean curd, stuffed glutinous rice in lotus root and preserved beef.
second row from left- stir-fried ling kok, river shrimps, chicken and chicken soup.
last row from left-salted vege, beans, fish and trotter.

my best meal in shanghai- cantonese cuisine in one of the popular cantonese restaurant here situated on nanjing street. it is adjacent to majestic plaza hotel if i remember correctly. we had goose, salmon, brocolli and scalllop and claypot sichuan ma lat tofu. rmb265

my last dinner in shanghai at one of those fusion restaurants on the top floor of a mall in on nanjing street. the service was not good but the food was reasonable.

hmm...did i miss anything?? different types of bread, starbucks coffee, kfc shrimp burger, curry puff, red tea (singapore pavilion), herbal jelly, ice lolly, apples, peach, grapes, bananas and sushi rolls. yup, basically these are without photos.

so do you envy my makan makan time in shanghai?? i think it is nothing to shout about lah but u know you won't starve if you are there. local shanghainese cuisine is normally oily and sweet. very very sweet. even the locals say so and they also like cantonese cuisine. but there are many types of restaurants and eateries and snack shops for you to sample the different kinds of food. hence you only have to make sure that your stomach can take it.