picture set 2: Fengyu Shengjian

So tonight, Theresa, Howard and I went to dinner together. Originally we were suppose to go to Yi Jia Yi, which is a Taiwanese 24 hours noodles joint, but we walk up Shaanxi road instead of down Shaanxi road so we stopped by one of the place recommended by Lonely Planet guide book: Fengyu Shengjian. Which is an adventure of its own for there's nothing in here that's English, Theresa can't read any of the mandarin on the menu and can't really understand what the lady is saying...we just pointed and ordered stuffs...which turns out to be super cheap. I mean, 2 giant bowls of noodles, 3 servings ( 12 dumplings) and a weird meat dish for only 20 kuai. Lets just say that the fried dumplings are F-ing delicious. And dipping it in the weird unknown meat dish's sauce....just make it even better. It was a pretty decent meal if I do say so myself. Albeit the place is a bit...hole in the wall and dingy...but the food is great.

SO we start to take some pictures... so here are some pictures of me ( obligatory Eve from Top Model pose included), Theresa and Howard. Howard is such an adorable british man. Theresa loves his northern accent ( apparently the british can love each other's accent??? Isn't there accent enough???) Then i took some more pictures of Howard and his bike outside. Adorable. Then Theresa tries on the bike...she doesn't know how to ride a bike....and I don't think Shanghai should be the place to start... then Howard left to go home and get ready to go out at Mao ( it's their official Grand opening, the other party was just pre-grand opening grand opening....whatever) Theresa and I don't feel like going to Mao ( Josh is going there though) so we went down to South Maoming Road to find some bars, end up at Blue Frog. I had a Singaporean sling ( delicious...which there was more alcolhol though...) and someone was celebrating his b-day so he gave everyone in the bar cake. Yum. We had a drink, chatted, have my much needed girl talks ( don't worry, I didn't replace you Rachel) Then we left, took forever to flag down a taxi...Shanghai has like a gazillion taxi, but trying to flag one down at night or before the rain...impossible. We gave up and I convince Theresa to use the metro and walk home from the metro stop. We left separate direction, I went on the subway, didn't get my coins out fast enough to give to one of the beggar in the subway...feeling kinda guilty about it, walked home listening to avril lavigne, again, feeling kinda down because....

I got stood up on my date tonight. Yes, after dinner, I was suppose to meet up with Greg, the guy that I went out on the great date with a few weeks ago when I first got to Shanghai. He just got back from his corporate bonding crap in Kentucky, talked to him last night online, he asked if we can see each other tonight, I said I have dinner plan, but we can see each other afterward. I texted him before I left for work, called him tonight, no answer. I'm quite annoyed and peeved off about it. Somehow this has the making of the wonderful date incident 2 summers ago with a guy named Patrick. Wonderful date, told me he has to go to Toronto for business, afterward, never heard from him ever again. Didn't return any of my calls...a total asshole about it. So if anyone who can remember this incident, know that I don't handle this " no call-ignore me completely without having the balls to say no" thing not very well... So I was feeling kinda like that tonight...I'm crazy, I know, but still...lol. Hence...Avril.

Anyway, enjoy the picture. Hopefully I will get my Q5 card tomorrow and be able to go to the Air Bar with Thersa on Saturday. I'll explain the Q5 card later...it's quite fabulous.