Shanghai / Hangzhou Day 8 (14/6/2014)

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This is home sweet home day!  Holiday is aways nice, but no place like home! :))

We went to a local lane eatery for a simple breakfast.  You can find this eatery along the lane between First Foodhall and this white color shopping mall.  See the green light there? Yes, that's right walk down this street.  The eatery is on your left after 1-2 mins walk.  The preserved fruit stall that I mentioned is also along this lane..opposite the eatery, a little further that's all.

Shanghai / Hangzhou Day 7 (13/6/2014)

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Day 7 today ! We will be going back to Singapore tomorrow..so we intend to take this day to relax and go slow...

This morning, we did not feel like having breakfast yet so we roamed around the streets and lanes around the hotel.  Interesting sights and finds !

Typical lanes scenes..

Shanghai / Hangzhou Day 6 (12/6/2014)

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How time flies...this is our 6th day in Shanghai / Hangzhou !

 

This bright morning, we decided to walk around Nanjing Pedestrian Walk to look for nice breakfast.  Out from our Hotel's Level 1 entrance, we turned to the left and started walking.  About 5 mins, we cam to this First Foodhall mall.  You won't miss it..the signage is so huge that even severe myopic conditions people can see!

Shanghai / Hangzhou Day 5 (11/6/2014)

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Woke up at 8am today, walked over to Zhi Wei Guan for our breakfast before heading back to Shanghai.  Our original plan was to try out the dim sum at Zhi Wei Guan..but when we reached there, we were greeted by sight of a normal foodcourt.  It was kind of surprising as I was expecting a restaurant.  We were kind of in a hurry, I did no think too much or ask around, we went into the foodcourt and started to orfer our breakfast items. 

 

Shanghai / Hangzhou Day 4 (10/6/2014)

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Another glorious weather day ! Early this am, we set off to Hu Pao Spring.  We arrived there close to 8.45am, way ahead of those tourist buses etc.  Thus the whole experience was very refreshing, minus the crowd!  We saw locals pushing trolleys with empty huge containers to be filled with the spring water!  All we have is 2 small mineral bottles. :))

 

Shanghai / Hangzhou Day 3 (9/6/2014)

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Today is D-DAY that we will be going to Hangzhou ! Exciting!

My original planning was to take the bullet train to Hangzhou and then take the metro to our Hotel - RenHe Hotel (仁和饭店）Should have been a relatively easy journey. But one of my kind friend has helped to contact his business associate in Nanjing to lend us his car and driver so that makes traveling to Hangzhou even much easier !  (Pls read my lesson learnt at the end of this post)

Shanghai / Hangzhou Day 2 (8/6/2014)

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Woke up to perfect weather.  Temperature this morning is around 22-23 degrees..cooling!  Plan for today will be a trip to the Oriental Pearl TV Tower and Yu Yuan (Cheng Huang Miao) in the late afternoon.

First, roamed the streets for breakfast!  Surprise! There is a branch of Yang's Fried Dumplings near our hotel ! (小杨生煎包)  Actually, during our Day 5, we discovered an even nearer stall close to our hotel.  For today, let's share directions to this little restaurant.  Again, setting off from Level 1 of Sofitel, out from hotel entrance, we turned left, walk straight down the street till we see the following :

Shanghai / Hangzhou Day 1 (7/6/2014)

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Another family holiday! This time we are going to Shanghai and Hangzhou...Yay!

Woke up at 4.45am, breakfast, one last check around the house and we were on our way in a maxi cab to Changi Airport.

 

 For our stay in Shanghai, I booked Sofitel Hyland Hotel, which is literally located along Nanjing Pedestrian Walk..where the shopping belt is.  It's a nice and comfortable hotel, but services??? Hmmm...ok lah, can't really feel the warmth and friendliness from service crew, but still they are polite and do their job.  So cannot complain too much  :))