Slept late again. Vacation is good.<\/p>\n
Today we’re catching the edge of a typhoon. Very rainy. Limits the options somewhat.<\/p>\n
There are two museums in town I want to see. The new Shanghai Museum in Peoples’ Square is the first on the list. Then a Science &Technology museum on the subway line in Pudong.<\/p>\n
We left home around 1pm for the Shanghai Museum. Explored the first two floors in good detail, covering Bronze Age pots and swords and pottery in great detail. Went through the modern art gallery rather more quickly, since it’s mostly all crap. Picasso, etc. One tiny Salvador Dali piece to liven things up.<\/p>\n
We rushed the last bit of the pottery gallery, as hunger and exhaustion was setting in. Tried to find a hot-pot restaurant near Peoples’ Square, but found a dim-sum instead. Good enough. Too weak to go on, must stop now.<\/p>\n
When it’s raining, the stores all have a guy standing in the doorway to pass out a plastic bag to put over your umbrella to stop it from dripping all over inside the store. Seems like rather a waste to me, though.<\/p>\n
One big difference in Asian and Western cuisine is Asian people like their food to look like what it is. This begins innocently enough with the way they serve pineapple on the skin, or drink coconit juice out of the coconut shell. But it extends to foods it should not. When they order chicken, they like to see a chicken on the platter. Head, feet, everything. They remove the feathers I guess only because they haven’t found a satisfactory way to cook them yet. Same with fish. Western people like chicken to be generic pieces of no particular shape on clean white styrofoam trays. Nothing to visually connect it to a living thing with blood and beating heart.<\/p>\n
Shopping now, in the same building as the restaurant. The restaurant was on the 12th floor. Most of the lower floors are a huge department store. Like the entire Eaton Centre, but all the same store. The selection of shoes alone is gigantic. This is probably why Sabrina says shopping in Shanghai is the best.<\/p>\n
Sabrina bought a handbag for herself, and a light jacket for me, despite my protestations that I have enough jackets already (one is enough, and I’m already well past that.). All the same, it is a nice jacket.<\/p>\n
After shopping, we left for home and fortunately caught a taxi right outside the door. That’s quite a feat, since catching a taxi on a rainy day is generally impossible. We took the taxi all the way home.<\/p>\n
I’ve heard that the Shanghai city government has prohibited the new Mission Impossible movie here. They don’t like the image of Shanghai it presents, showing underwear hanging from peoples’ windows on bamboo poles to dry. But that’s exactly what Shanghai is. I’ve seen hundreds of pairs of underwear hanging on bamboo poles. Nobody here has gas or electric clothes dryers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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