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Today was a good change of pace. Garin and I left the location before lunch to head back to the city for some meetings. I got to have lunch with Eileen near the office - it was nice to have a simple salad for lunch… not that I don't like Chinese food, but I like to mix it up.After the meetings, I went for a snack with Sunil. While I was waiting, I heard some shouting, so naturally, I went to go look.Apparently before they get ready for the dinner shift, this restaurant does a team building activity in the area between the restaurant and our office building. It included some legs tied together, some screaming, and something else I can't describe. You just have to look at the picture.
Not sure how many times I have raved about the restaurant here, but every time I am in Shanghai, I absolutely have to eat at Simply Thai, sometimes 2, 3, or 4 times in a trip.Maybe it's because they have won best Thai/Asian food award in Shanghai for 4 straight years..?Monday night Charles, Garin, and I went and I had chicken with basil and vegetables with Thai rice.It was FANTASTIC!J
Tonight though was really nice - we had Garin, Charles, Caroline, Eileen, Cathy, Angela, and Michael.(See picture) Since I don't get to work with the entire Asia Pac team on a job, it was really nice to see them all together. We had SOOO much food!I normally don't like spring rolls, but theirs are just addictive.Since everyone else there tended to like spicy food and/or seafood, I ordered a stir fried rice noodle with chicken for myself… and although I shared, I definitely did not want toJIn general, I always avoid things on a menu that have even one 'chili' next to them to indicate how spicy they are because sometimes my mouth can't even handle mild salsa.I made the mistake of thinking that one of the dishes was the same thing I had Monday night and I decided to eat some of it.I thought I was going to start breathing fire.Which, when I voiced this because I ran out of water, I found out that the dish's spicy rating was only 1 chili pepper, so everyone laughed at me a little, which I didn't care because I stole their water. Since none of the China team really likes to go out to bars (they like KTV - known in the US as kareoke - more ) just Charles, Garin, and I went out.
Next stop, Garin and Charles promised to take me to Bar Rouge which is on the roof of Bund 18.The bar set up was pretty cool, but I was kinda surprised by the fact that every table was reserved but only 10% were actually being used.Not sure how that works, but it seemed kinda snobby to me. We hung out on its outdoor terrace because the inside had some loud techno music going, which I don't really understand because the bartender has to ask you 10 times what you want to drink.It was a nice night though and I enjoyed the view of the Pudong side of Shanghai. (See Picture) There was a large group (I guess the phrase Eurotrash is politically incorrect?) also out of the terrace celebrating someone's birthday.They got this huge dish filled with ice and shooters with 2 huge sparklers on the side of it… I asked Charles why I didn't get one on my birthday and he just laughed at me.The bar is definitely not my style… little too high class for me, but I am glad I went once to see what it was all about.
Next stop was another bar that I had wanted to go to called Barbarosa (See picture) in People's Square, where we met up with Jimmy and Sunil. On the way to the bar, Garin and Charles made sure to point out the rules of the park to me. Now, there are a lot of times when you kinda laugh out loud because a translation does not come across right. I took a picture of the sign; make sure you look at Rule #2.
Barbarosa was literally in the park, surrounded by water with HUGE Lilly pads (See picture) - you wouldn't expect it to be there unless you were looking for it. It had a Middle Eastern theme, which is what I was excited about (I kinda miss Dubai!!).We sat upstairs which had an open air bar, but I wanted to sit on the comfy sofa with all the cool pillows.This is definitely my kind of bar - the music wasn't too loud, the drinks were good, and it was super laid back.AND they had HOOKAH!! (Flavored tobacco - aka Sheesha). It was a good way to end the night.
On a different note, I can't believe I have been here a whole week and haven't had a foot massage. What is the world coming to?
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