We recently took an adventure slightly out of Shanghai on the metro to Nanxiang - the home of xiaolongbao (the yummy small steamed dumpling filled with pork!). There is the official dumpling street with numerous restaurants all with only one item on the menu! It was neat to see all their steamers out on the street, 4-6 ladies in the back whipping up the delicacy and baskets everywhere waiting to be cooked. We dined on our 4 baskets of dumplings and then headed for the Guyi Gardens. The 450 year old gardens were just beautiful and the rules before entering were some of the funniest Chinglish we've seen yet! Here are the highlights of the rules to abide by in the park:- Children under 1.2m or spiritual disease patients are not allowed to enter the park alone
- Don't be barebacked, lie down at will, or wash and air clothes
- Don't relieve the bowels or urine everywhere
- Don't play, catch or terrify the animals like birds, crickets, cicadas
- Embrace green beings
So clearly we left our laundry at home, went to the bathroom before entering the park and saved our napping for the metro ride home! We grabbed some cotton candy off the street (yes our standard of what we will eat and where we will eat it from have changed greatly!) and headed back to Shanghai. A very fun day out of the city!
I have also included a picture of the scary man who sits at the corner near our complex and is often available with his turtle for sale - apparently just one turtle at a time, that hangs on a stick for hours on end and even if he holds up the tail it still just looks like a poor dying turtle! Oh and I learned that he doesn't like his picture taken...good thing I don't understand being yelled to or yelled at in Chinese! Maybe he just wanted me to buy the turtle...I didn't stick around to find out!
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