Roshley in PRC

We’re off to Seoul on Friday, so next week we’ll have a more exciting post, but for now enjoy a few more pics from some of our finer Shanghai moments.

We live within walking distance of a street called Wujiang Lu, which is somewhat similar to 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica.  Almost every weekend we see tons of food demonstrations on the street, which is always pretty entertaining.  Here, you see a pic with a very excited Rob posing with the Tabasco mascot.

Hot dog sushi anyone?

We went to an awesome Japanese restaurant for my birthday and our friend Brian, had to order this just to satisfy his curiosity.  The verdict??  I believe he said it “wasn’t bad.”

I believe in a previous post we mentioned that our friend, Austin, is opening a restaurant in Shanghai.  It took some time, but Madison is up and running doing splendidly! This pic is one of us from a Madison tasting.  You can’t see much of the restaurant behind us, but check out this link for a more complete view:

http://sixsixtystudios.com/madison-restaurant/

The amazing pics of Madison were taken by one of Austin’s friends, Tobias Chu.  His photos are great, so if you have some time I highly recommend you check out his website. Also, if you look closely you’ll see my blurry image in the background of Madison’s food shots.  I was working on a career as a Feiyue shoe model (see previous post)…. but I’ve moved onto food modeling now.  Too bad I’m not at all photogenic… ha!

A pic from Shireen’s blackberry of Toby shooting “me.”  Hee hee– I can’t wait to be discovered.  LOL

In all seriousness, we want to wish Austin and Toby the best of luck with their respective business ventures!!  They are both ridiculously talented and we’re sure they’ll see continued success!

Finally, see below for a few pics from our first KTV (karaoke) experience in Shanghai.  It was pretty similar to what I’ve done in the U.S., except the drink of choice was the traditional whiskey and chilled green tea.  I know it sounds gross, but man…. does it go down easy!

Dice seem to be available anywhere drinking is.

JT getting the party started.

One of Wei’s notorious karaoke performances.  I wish I had a video to post…. the girl’s got some moves.  Rah rah, rah-ah-ah-ah.

That’s all for now, until next week!  Enjoy your Memorial Day… we’re sad to be missing out!

I can’t believe it’s been three weeks since our last blog post!  It’s been one of those things that I keep moving toward the bottom of my to-do list… oops!

We haven’t travelled outside of Shanghai in awhile, so this post will only be quick update of funny Shanghai moments.  :-)

1. Vinegar drink

Tonight we tried a new restaurant called Qimin.  The food (hot pot) was great and very easy to walk to from our apartment.  My Chinese teacher told me there is a Chinese province where the people drink vinegar at the end of their meal, but I had never experienced it for myself until tonight.  See Exhibit 1, 2, and 3

Vinegar smoothie

Bottoms up!

Yes, I drank mine too.

Rob said he thought the drink was good, but I thought it just tasted like vinegar…. ick!!

2.  Chinese shoes

I had read on a popular Shanghai blog about a local shoe company and decided to go check it out.  I was happy to pay my 6 USD in exchange for a pair of pretty snazzy (yeah, you heard me…. they’re “snazzy”) sneaks.  See below for a display of my modeling techniques.  I’m thinking of submitting these pics to the company  to get started on my career as a foot model.

3.  Rob bought yogurt again, thinking it was milk.  He just never learns.

4. A coffee shop with no hot dogs allowed

85 degrees is a well known coffee and tea cafe in Shanghai.  We went there tonight to pick up some boba (for those that don’t know, it’s milk tea w/ tapioca balls mixed in) and noticed this hilarious sign.  I guess hot dogs don’t go well with coffee and tea.

That’s all for now.  I hope to add a few more things soon!!!