Food in Shanghai - A Delicious Experience ...

'Chinese Food' is well known in the world. I was lucky-enuf to taste the Chinese food in China.

Most of Chinese food includes wide range of Vegetables. No much oil is used in most of the items. The Non veg items wont contain salt & Masala(very few salty chicken items were available) . So, the taste differs. It takes time to adjust to the taste, especially for a typical south Indian ( like me) who prefers more masala & chillie.

There are few INTERESTING kind of restaurants in China. Those are called 'Houghfou'...means 'Fire Pot'. Here, we need to cook by ourselves and eat. This is entirely a different experience (eventhough we have a few of this kind in India..).

They provide us a Pot with Water,Chillie and different kinds of flavours and Fire under it. They also give a plate-ful of Lamb's Meat which is sliced into very thin pieces like chips. We can cook the meat there itself and eat.



Sliced Meat



The meat can be cooked & within a few seconds (as it is sliced so thin..), and extremely delicious as it is cooked in the Pot with chillie and other flavours. A Delicious Experience ...

Dosa & Parota are surprisingly present in China. Chinese ppl know these dishes already. Not sure whether they learned from India or vise versa..

Pork is one of the favourites for Chinese ppl. Most of the dishes include pork. They sprinkle small pork pieces on egg fried rice also. So, pure vegetarians must be careful always, to make sure that there is no pork in the food in any form.

Chinese ppl can eat rice using 'Chopsticks' . We cant eat even egg, with them.

TV and Internet in Shanghai

There was a big Hair Television in our Hotel in Shanghai where we stayed.

I went and switched on, found 40 odd Chinese channels (more than 50% of them are news channels...) and BBC & CNN.

There were 2 to 3 english channels which telecast China Tourism details. The remaining channels were like Doordarshan (TV serials in Chinese...).

Almost all the Hotels provide Broad-band internet connection in Shanghai. But most of the websites are blocked like Googlepages ..etc. I heard that it was to stop the people to publish their opinion across Internet. Don't know how far it is true ..

First Crush ...First Abroad Trip ... always sweetest

Shanghai .... An exciting city .. all tall buildings...average building height is extremely large.

Because of the Olympics season, a thourough checking was done in the Airport. They didnt allow us to take some of the food items which we brought from india ...like Dal ..etc.

My Chinese colleague "Bill Luo Ming" was waiting for us at the airport. He took us to the Fastest Magnetic train (reportedly at that time...) which travels upto 430 kmph. we reached a staion called "Longyang Road".

From there, we took a taxi to the hotel where I am going to stay. Taxi driver doesnt know even "Ok", "Yes" or "No" words in english. (But most of the young people like Students,employees can understand English. but not everyone even among them ..)

We reached the hotel "Pent OX Metropoliton"...has 33 floors.It is in in Pudong district of Shanghai.

Nice view from my hotel room window ...I can see the Huangpu river, which divides Shanghai into two parts. Old Shanghai and New Shanghai.

Chennai To China

After a 8 months of Day & Night hectic effort, It was time for me travel to Shanghai, .....to implement our software in the Client's Place.

Our Client is none other than Panasonic. A Technology Giant... also Official Sponsor of the Olympics.

Had a very good journey in Singapore Airlines .. My first trip to abroad ... First time travel in a plane... so u can imagine the excitement ..

Camera was busy though out the journey ... not even leaving the seats of the plane.


Heard a lot about the Shanghai.... Streets of Shanghai... Robberies .. pick pocketors .. and Luxurious life..

It took several hours to reach my dream place in reality ...

At Last .......... I arrived Shanghai.