Seafood Paradise - Tongchuan Road

Seafood, all the seafood in every type and variety that you can imagine, all fresh, swimming, located here in a seafood market in Shanghai. Scallops, razor clams, crabs, oysters, clams, little abalones, fish - whatever kind. In little glass tanks located down the market.

There are rows and rows of shops displaying various types of seafood along Tongchuan road, in the day, it is a seafood market. In the night, there are various restaurants serving up yummy seafood. Customers can go down to the streets to shop for seafood, bring it up for the restaurant to cook and serve, at their own discretion.




There was seafood, there was baijiu. Happy Days !





For another fellow Singaporean, I would recommend the following seafood in Shanghai such as the pissing prawns (椒盐赖尿虾), scallops (扇贝), little abalone (小鲍鱼), the fish such as (多宝鱼). And of course, good seafood should go with good baijiu. I note the disgust on your face right now but baijiu is for the bold. When I say bold, baijiu tastes like industrial alcohol in tiny sips and in larger mouthfuls, the full aroma and fragrance of the baijiu can only be truly experienced. The hype over its high alcohol content is just hype, put baijiu next to a normal bottle of whiskey and it is comparatively the same.

Yes, you're looking at a converted Baijiu fan.

新九龙塘(兰溪路店)
地址: 普陀区兰溪路419号(近铜川路)
电话: 021-52668868 52668878

Eating at Southern Barbarian

There is a eatery that I wanted to try, serving up Yunnan food here in Shanghai. It was always highly publicized in one of the lifestyle magazines here. So I just had to try it !


Ordered a Belgian raspberry beer and fried goat cheese as a starter


Over the Bridge Noodles.

The food was .................... SO DISAPPOINTING after all the hype. Expectations and reality are on two different planes. Food was decent, not fantastic, what I appreciated was the fantastic array of beers available. Belgium beer in particular. Kudos to them, they should have opened a bar instead.

Southern Barbarian
Area E, 2/F Ju'Roshine Life Arts Space
56 Maoming Nan Lu
茂名南路56号/ 进贤路169号

Bowled Over

Decided to go for a game of bowling spontaneously after dinner with my friends. We were bored, we were stuffed and we wanted to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING.

So off we went to play bowling, after playing 4 games, I couldn't feel my arm or thighs anymore. One of my friends played a truly mindblowing game during the last round. Mind you, he doesn't bowl regularly, he didn't use his own ball or gear. HE JUST DID IT.

Presenting to you..

Charles, 6 strikes in a row, 1 spare, in the same game.



Beer, Ciggies, good friends just hanging out. It was a good farewell to Charles in his last night in Shanghai before leaving tomorrow.

Don't Trust the Lonely Planet

After using my faithful Lonely Planet for Italy and China for the past year, you kind of understand that the terms "must-see" is all encompassing and vague, kind of like the concept of God. Uh-huh

In my last couple of days in Shanghai, I decided to make the trip that I have put off for so long which was to visit one of the "must-see" of Shanghai from my Lonely Planet, the Shanghai Museum.


Fantastic looking building, no entrance fees. Free !


Really boring exhibit categories.. ( where are all the gems and jewelery? )

I didn't manage to stay long in the museum. The ones that I visited in Nanjing and Xian were much more superior, though the Shanghai Museum had clearly labeled exhibits and much appreciated English descriptions.

Some key items that I did like was

The Stone Lions Outside


The Statues ..


The ceramics & pottery

The Shanghai Museum isn't that terrible, a bit boring for me, but it is well-managed and unlike some of the other museums that I have been to, they bothered offering audio guides in various languages. Since the museum is free, do drop by if you are ever in the Nanjing road area for a quick trip. You might find something that you like.

Shanghai Museum
Address: Shanghai, Peoples Great Road, #201
Telephone: 86-21-63723500
Official Website: http://www.shanghaimuseum.net