Saturday, we woke up late-ish and spent a while planning the next week. We then decided it was time to go for brunch, at which point the heavens literally opened. It clearly wasn't going to get better so we took a couple of underground trains and went to a Dim-Sum restaurant. It was all nice stuff, we decided to pass on the Frog's ovaries syrup this time.
Due to the rain, we didn't do a great deal else until dinner, when we took a long taxi ride South. I think. It was so far that it cost five pounds, which is a fortune in the Shanghai taxi world. We had Korean BBQ with some Chinese-American guys, and it was very nice. We moved on for the Germany-Argentina match, in which Germany inflicted an excellent drubbing on the freak Maradona's team. We finally went to bed at 4am after watch some zombie rubbish.
From what I can tell so far, Shanghai is like a very spread out Hong Kong. There are lots of tall buildings, but there is much, much more room so it feels less concentrated. It has a bit of a buzz just like Hong Kong and a friendly one at that. There is a lot more of the poor side here, I don't think you'd get (literally) shacks with people selling deadly-looking food in Hong Kong. I don't feel in the position talk about the place much because the two places I've been in China now are clearly be far the most Westernized. When we go onto only the second most beaten track later this week, things should start to get more interesting.
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