Shanghai at night.
Water calligraphy at Fuxing Park.
This weekend is the Mid-Autum Festival in China which means only one thing... Mooncakes! We started off the day with Eli and Xaiohan to pick up some mooncakes at a local Shanghai bakery. On our way there we walked through Fuxing Park again and found that even more people than during the week were in the park singing, flying kites, dancing, and doing water calligraphy. We continued on to the bakery where we got in line for mooncakes. Despite there only being about 15 people ahead of us in line, we gave up after 1.5 hours of waiting. The mooncakes were made fresh on the spot but it seemed every person ordered the entire batch (~50 mooncakes in a batch) when it was their turn. So this took forever and we just couldn't wait any longer. We ended up buying some at another bakery later in the day, they just were not from such a famous place and were a different style.
On the subway with Eli and Xaiohan.
In the afternoon we went to the 'fake mall' which as you may have guessed is a huge mall filled with fake versions (or overruns) of EVERYTHING you can think of. We had a lot of fun here because you can (and should) bargain for everything. Eli and Xiaohan are experts and taught us well.
Dinner was in the building with the small dark red awning and lighted doorway on the right.
For dinner we went out to a very small resturaunt-like place in a woman's house where she cooks for a very small number of people each night. The meal was local Shanghainese cuisine, and everything was great. We had snails, shrimp, fish, tofu & bamboo soup, crab, and some vegetable. It all came out at once which you can see in the photo below.
Dinner!