breathe.: February 2009

Monday, February 23, 2009

Shabu Shabu

My favorite restaurant in Shanghai so far is a Shabu Shabu restaurant on Huai Hai Lu. For 88RMB you can eat all the meat you can fit in your body. And it is incredibly tasty. (Goes well with a bing pijiu (cold beer))

Tai Kang Lu

(above: Dan OuYang. Ouyang is Chinese for "she who dances on poles")

It can only get better...

wow.

Real Life Garfield

Saw this 'lil fella in a store front. He was just people watching, enjoying the weather and dreaming about his next meal of pork, eggs, beer and other cats.

When two taxis collide

We were riding around on our bikes one Saturday... and then it's started to pour outside. We stopped in front of a Lawson's (think 7/11), and grabbed a couple beers to wait it out (it's legal to drink in public in China). Just then two taxi run into each other. They get out, their passengers leave, and the two engage in a pleasant conversation, something to the effect of "no it was my fault..," "no it was MY fault." They both get in one taxi, light up a cigarette and wait for the cops to show up. In China you don't move when you've been in an accident. Even when you're hit on your bike, and you're on the ground, you don't move. You wait for the cops to show up, and then they facilitate a bargain between the two people involved in the accident. The person who's fault it is pays the victim in cash on the spot. There is no insurance.

In this video, we also see the military marching by. Just another Saturday night in Shanghai.