Burn Baby Burn

To spice up this week a little more I decided to take a trip to the Super Brand Mall. It's really beautiful when you get out of the subway station because everything is lit up to a max. The Pearl Tower is sparkling as well as all the other tall financial buildings. I shopped around a little...well the only place I got to go to was H&M because it took 30 minutes to get through the fitting rooms. The problem with shopping in China is that your shopping with the other billion people that live there! And another downside is that everyone here is pretty much my size so I have to search when I usually don't have a problem in the states. This mostly pertains to jeans! The one thing I want to buy and there is never my size. Damn all the other millions of short and small Asian girls! I did come out with 2 shirts. 99RMB each, so around $15 US each.

Then I went looking for somewhere to eat. Each mall in China has around 50 restaurants in it. It makes my indecisive self go crazy because I don't know which to pick and I always second guess myself! It's one of my downfalls. I walked around for a long time and finally set on a place called Ajisen Noodles. There were a lot of people in there so I was sure it had to be good. The funny thing is that I don't really understand what the server says nor can read the Chinese so I just point to the picture and say "this one" in Chinese. I think they get the point. So I thought I had learned my lesson Sunday when I put hot sauce in my noodles and realized Chinese hot sauce is like 10 times hotter than ours at home. Well I ordered the Hokkaido Style Miso Soup noodles and it had an innocent 1 chili pepper next to it. I thought it's only one pepper when others have four and I like things a little spicy. Well I was wrong. I took one bite of the noodles and it was SPICY. Not as bad as the other noodles, but still had a kick and I was coughing hard. Luckily I had ordered a mango and assume ice tea, which cooled my mouth down. Now I know to beware of the one chili pepper! Nonetheless, the noodles were really good and I still ate it all. I love Japanese style ramen noodles! And the tea was good too. I'm usually not a fan of teas, but I think they are better in China than in the states. Teas in the states are often too sweet for me, but here it tastes good. I had bubble milk tea the other day and it was really good. When I used to have it at home, it would make me kind of sick because of all the sugar. But it's just right here! The beautiful thing about China is that this very satisfying meal only cost me 40RMB total. That is equivalent to $5.87US. Sometimes drinks are already $5!

On a different note, my dad arrives tomorrow! I'm so excited to see him because...well anyone who knows him knows he's really fun! I can't wait and he will be able to show me around.

P.S. For the first time I went on the wrong bus on my way home. Everything goes so quickly and missing a bus means waiting a while for the next one so I thought I read the Chinese characters right, but didn't and I realized it was wrong like one minute after. I got off and took a taxi home and the taxi driver was the nicest guy ever!! I didn't know there were nice people in Shanghai (HA!). We tried having a conversation, but he couldn't understand my Chinglish. But very nice and it made my day!