What a delightful day! My friends took me to Yang’s Fried-Dumplings, the Bund, and …. drum roll please …. the massage place! After my 3-hour meandering yesterday, I was slightly embarrassed when they guided me this afternoon. It seems that I had turned right when I should have turned left. However, the massage was well worth the wait.
In spite of my friend’s instructions about how to eat the dumplings, I managed to squirt the delicious juice all over me, the table, and the floor.
Yang’s Dumplings … Imagine how surprise I was to find the same just across the street from my hotel. It took 3/4 + via foot & subway to get to this one.
Shanghai Street (Nanjing Lu)
Most of my time in Shanghai was spent under grey skies. I was thankful for this beauty.
Incredible 90 massage costing about $30 (USD)
A pet? Or tomorrow’s lunch? This chicken was here…in the same spot, yesterday.
That chicken was still pecking away on the sidewalk along Wuding Lu.
All in all, a wonderful day in Shanghai, Thursday, June 21.
Ramblings 
The phot thing’s annoying isn’t it? Welcome to my world
Is that what is keeping me from uploading pics?
unless you pay for a VPN. The free ones don’t upload the photos. It’s been a constant moan of mine and just another thing about China that wears me down
I actually have paid for a VPN … hmm maybe I paid for SKYPE. I might try to upgrade the VPN. Thanks. Oh! I went to the bank today to change 100 U.S. Dollars for RMB! 1/2 hour to fill out applications in triplicate, hand over my passport, sign something in Chinese (have not idea what I signed), wait while they checked and double-checked the passport … all to just exchange money so that I could spend money in the country.
This is a newer location. The oldYangs fry has been demolished apparently as have so many authentic eateries on prime land. I am sure the dumplings were the same though. How I loved them!
This is, according to my Shanghai friend, the main one now. There is a very small one near my hotel, but the dumplings are not quite as good as these were this morning. I am sorry that the original is gone; I’m seeing similar demolition and new building all over Shanghai. Constant construction. It appears that the economy here is strengthening. It’s still a tremendously crowded city.
Wow,I enjoy going out on your walks around the city
Oh thank you. I didn’t take the camera out today because I’m trying to be good and focus on my work … but I don’t want to be good. I want to play!
Cameras are such good “toys”
The dumpling shot is fantastic. 🙂
That means a lot to me, thanks.
One of the reasons I like the blog is to see which shots get a reaction … and those I might do something with