day 9: sweet and sour and short day

Wake up, eat another home cooked meal of course. We once again we, Aunt Wendy, Jason and I, head out to Dong Jia Du for the final pick-up of our new custom tailored suits. They’re snappy and great, we bag ‘em and buy ‘em and take off for our next destination, Huangchang market. I couldn’t find too much information on the place yet, but it seemed to be a place that was designed in an ancient style, but set up as an outdoor mall. Looked pretty cool, especially the restaurant on stilts over the pond in the middle of it all. We look around there for a bit, eat a few snacks (some of the best custard pies I’ve ever had), found a place with some cool cheap reprints of Chinese propaganda posters. Thank goodness for Aunt Wendy. Jason forgot to bargain at one place and he ended up buying full price for something. While for the posters, instead of paying about US$15 for each, we paid only US$3 for each. Score! Finally we head back home by taxi and take a nice long break after, of course, plenty of walking.

Have a nice home cooked meal. Get ready to go out to a club on the Bund. Find Bar Rouge and chill out there for awhile. Everyone there is pretty old or just not our type of people. But certainly a cool place to be, and a fun place to people watch of course. Some people are students, some people are business men, some people are well-off locals. After a few rounds, we head back home to end a nice not so hectic day. Finally, a day that wasn’t too packed.