Shanghai – Come to my tea show!
June 2, 2008Many foreigners decide to settle down in Shanghai, a city which has many western characteristics.
Shanghai is known for it’s tall buildings and the “band” (the promenade which goes along the river side). Shanghai also has colonial buildings and small traditional chinese streets which reminds us that it is still a city in China. Shanghai isn’t as crowded as Beijing but it’s still a pretty hectic place! check out this video showing how pedestrians, 2 wheelers and heavy traffic run harmoniously.
In Shanghai you will find many English speaking Chinese, mainly many “friendly students” who would like to practice their English with you. A little bit of small talk which shortly after turns into an invitation to a “traditional tea show” in which after you would drink some tea you will soon find out YOU are the star of this show having to pay a ridiculous amount of money for that small cup of chai. Don’t worry, we didn’t fall for this scam, instead after learning the rules of this new game we could spot out these students and decided to invite them to OUR traditional tea show… they weren’t humored as much as we were 
Shanghai has a lot of great night life to offer and has some extremely fancy bars and restaurants around down town.
This was our last stop in “mainland” china so we decided to leave with one more chinese experience.. oysters on a grill!?!
Off to Hong Kong!
Check out the pics:
http://gallery.atpic.com/20107
Love,
NoaAyal
