While shopping at Carrefour the other day, I came across a unusual scene. As usual there were lots of people pushing here and there to buy fruits and vegetables. Recently, Carrefour started selling lycee, probably because it is the lycee season now. Lycee happened to be one of my favourite fruits. I am just about to start choosing when I noticed many of the customers actually peeling the lycee on the spot and eating. I thought it should be alright as they are trying the fruits to see if they are sweet before buying.

Skins and seeds all over the place.

But I am shell-shocked when I saw what happened next. After eating, they placed the seed and whatever was left in their hands and left them in the pile of lycee that I’m choosing from!! One of the customer was even worse. She SPIT THE SEED BACK into the basket of lycee!! Needless to say, I did not buy any lycee yesterday. Don’t understand what’s the mainlanders logic?

No~~ It’s not garbage! It’s lycee for sale!

Popularity: 11% [?]

1019 KangDing Road, near YanPing Road. If you walk from west Yan-Ping, you can’t miss it!

Facade of the restaurant

Native Thai cuisine prevails at this restaurant. For those who love Thai food, there’s a new Thai restuarant  along Kang Ding road, just few minutes walk from west Yen-Ping road.

The Interior.

Nicely printed menu in English with photos.

Chiang Mai Thai cuisine mainly offers native Thailand food. The selection of seafood dishes is fantastic. It has a quiet and warm environment and the lighting was comfortable.

We got there pretty early, at about 11 noon and we were the first customers. We ordered fried rice with shrimp paste and tom yam soup. For me, tom yam soup is a absolute must when trying thai food. To top it off, we ordered fried prawn cakes as appetiziers. It was a pity they did not have appetiziers combination, which is available at Thai House . But the prawn cakes were not available and we ordered fish cakes instead.

The service was actuallly quite good which is rare in Shanghai. They were very accomodating and polite. The food was good although we would have preferred it to be more spicy. While waiting for the final dish (fried fish cakes), we were served Satay instead. We though it was a mistake.  The Thai Chef explained that the fish cakes were not up to his usual standards and could not be served. The Satay was on the house.

All in all, the experience was pleasant and we would be back for more thai cuisine.

Thai fried rice with shrimp paste, sweat pork, fried egg and prawn.

Thai Satay

Thai Seafood Tom Yam Soup

Contact informations:

1019 Kangding Lu, Jing An District near Yanping Lu.
Tel: 5228-1588
URL: http://www.chiang-mai.com.cn/
caijiquan918@yahoo.com.cn
Open 11am-11pm
Delivery available within 3km.

Popularity: 19% [?]

The Mainland Chinese will no longer need to make their way to Hong Kong Disneyland anymore, because a much more bigger Disney is coming to Shanghai! After years of negotiations between China goverment and Walt Disney, it’s finally a done deal. The official announcement is expected to be made after Beijing Olympic in August.

It was said the park will cover 10 square kilometers of land, about eight times the size of Hong Kong Disneyland, and will be built near Pudong’s Chuansha Town, about 20 minutes’ drive from Pudong International Airport.

The park will be open at the earliest possible time in 2012 and might impact the numbers of visitors to HK Disneyland. Time will tell… It would be the third Disneyland in Asia after Japan and Hong Kong .

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Popularity: 12% [?]