Shanghai Tan

Finally, I have a chance to go for a photo session at the Bund of Shanghai (上海外滩) Thursday night, shooting the Pudong side (浦东). It was a bad day for photo, rain, foggy and windy. I original had a buddy who wanted to join me, but finally chicken out (hehe Anthony!) when he saw the [...]

I took these photos of the old temple of Shanghai, Cheng Huang Miao (城隍庙), at the same day as I went for Xiao Long Bao. Actually the temple was under renovation, and frankly pretty small… so I didn’t take any photo of the actual temple. This site is a must-go for every first-time tourist, so [...]

Après 8 jours de travail consécutif (23 au 30 avril) et 7 jours de congé consécutif (1er au 7 mai), je suis presque bien installé maintenant. Nous sommes déménagés dans un nouvel apartement meublé jamais occupé, il nous reste à acheter des petits bébels pour être entièrement fonctionnel, c’est plus petit que notre loft à [...]

I take subway to work everyday, it takes around 30 minutes to go a dozen stations. Generally the waiting time is less than a minute but I have to transit between line 1 and line 2, so it takes a bit longer sometime. At the target station there is a special bus that takes us [...]

There are all kinds of buns found on Shanghai streets, but one of them is particularly well known of Shanghai, it’s called Xiao Long Bao (小笼包). It’s a steamed bun, about the size of a golf ball, very thin “skin”, generally meat ball inside but sometime with crab meat also. It’s quite “juicy” when well [...]