Shanghai again

Back to Shanghai again. This time, with Tyre - its his first time! Younger bro joined us towards the end of the trip too.

When i booked the tickets, i tot that timing's just right @ towards the end of winter. Shd be cooling. Cooling it wasnt. It was freaking cold - some days between 4-7degress in gloomy weather. Lucikly i was quite adequately armed with warm clothings but tyre was feeling pretty cold most times.

Explored a few more places this time, thanks to Tyre. For without him, i would just go back to the same old places. But with him ard, everyone felt compelled to bring him to places of interests and i got to tag along! :D

We went to Tian Zi Fang located near our place @ Da Pu Qiao Station. Its an area made up of alleys of small quaint shops and eateries. Pretty interesting to wander around and get lost in the maze of shops. Too bad the weather was too freaking cold, else it would have been pretty good for al fresco dining.

There's a wet market located right outside Tian Zi Fang and we decided to do some grocery shopping plus let tyre have a taste of 'local life'. Tyre got pretty turned off after less than five minutes and opt to wait outside for us to finish up. We also had our first shanghai home cooked food - prepared by cousin lili (see pictures in last row below)

Snapping pictures of a very unwilling tyre carrying foodies bought from the wet market. Love the right most picture ... looks cool yet comical with the bags of groceries! hehehe

Tyre's aunty is teaching in Shanghai and we managed to meet her for dinner. She brought us for yummy xin-jiang food - mainly made up of mutton.. yumz! i love mutton.

One of the sightseeing places we went to was Qi Bao - its located within Shanghai and accessible by mrt. It was so packed!!!

None of the food sighted along the food alleys look enticing enough but this cotton candy stall really caught my attention and i had to try it - multicolored flower shaped cotton candy. Only RMB6 (S$1.20). So pretty.

We also visited Suzhou. Nothing very interesting, except for those small chinese teapot shops where dad got quite a few for his collection.

That's all from the recent trip.

Next stop - Korea & HK! Yay!!! So looking forward to it!