2nd Shanghai Trip (Part 2 - Food!)

Hi all,

This is about food!
We had a great dinner with the Shanghai Teachers at 品三国, that means "Taste the Three Kingdoms". All their food names were based on stories of the "Three Kingdoms". We had a great time... Most of them came during their summer hols and we became great friends!

Look that this... it looks like soldiers on a dragon boat... head is quails eggs with a mushroom hair. Body is rice wrapped in pandan leaves. Think this is called 草船接箭。

This is a HUGE bowl... see the bread beside it for relative size. It is called 水煮鱼。To me it is more like 油煮鱼。They are fish and some veg put in hot oil (without cooking), it was cooked by it's oil heat.

And the all time favourite Xiao-Long-Bao 小笼包. It is very cheap and nice. The huge one is called Tang-Bao 汤包. It looks like a bao from the outside but the soup is inside. I had a hard time figuring out how to eat (with some graceful-ness)

They had the plate lifted up by a stand and I think I am supposed to put my face over it and sip up the soup. Can't waste the soup, it's crab soup! Heavens... =)

(We were just trying to funny and see if it looks like mickey...)

OK, Part 3 coming when I am free...

2nd Shanghai Trip (Part 1)

Hi dear,

It's me with the coolest train i've ever taken...



In the past, the fastest train I've taken was the bullet train in Japan. But this is even faster!

This is the Shanghai Maglev! A magnetic train that travels at 431km/h. Faster than F1! (Haha... I've been telling the whole world that!) I can feel the lifting up (from the track) and the next moment, it moves... and it slowly increases to 431km/h. The houses and the trees went passed very fast...

One moment, I felt a little tremble (wondering what's wrong??), it took me a long while to realise it just passed an opposite train... and you can't see it!

Those who when through Relative Velocity with me... 2 trains passing each other at 431km/h each is like seeing something at 862km/h! (actually cannot see a thing. =D) Still remember? Relative...

=)

It is really 431km/h! No Camera Tricks!

Love,
Mama Wai

22 Dec is the day!

Hello all,

Thanks for waiting. Just came back Shanghai a few days back. Last mission in Swiss! This is a real exciting trip. Share with you soon...

Yes! 19 Dec is my last day in Swiss. 22 Dec I will be reporting to my new work place at Grange Road. It is far.... (from home) but near Orchard.

Moving on to be the Secretariat for YOG (Youth Olympics Games)... isn't this unbelievable and exciting? 2 years break from the classroom in exchange for a "once a lifetime" new involvement. Actually I do not know what I am in for, only know that YOG 2010 is an event, a world event!

Will keep everyone updated of new excitments!

Have a good week and weekend!