Shanghai'd

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Some updates

Thursday - Pretty uneventful day, finished our final packing, relaxed on the beach, and caught our fligh to Hainan with the safest cab driver ever (he had a huge drum of compressed natural gas in his trunk). Arrived in Shanghai around 1AM.

Friday - Spent most of the morning getting adjusted to Shanghai and getting our orientation. We had some breakfast shopped a bit (and probably paid too much because we didn't have the hang of haggling yet). We had dinner at a restaurant called Wang Baohe which was interesting. It was 10 courses of crab and crab based dishes, lots of fun to eat. We then tried to hail a cab home, much harder than it seems. There were hundreds of cabs everywhere, but all of them were full, and on each corner (in one of the busier sections of Shanghai) there were people trying to get cabs. We walked about 6 blocks trying to find a cab without much success. Finally we found a spot near the bus stop where a lot of cabs were dropping people, I literally had to grab a cab door and run with it about 5 feet to secure it for our use, in Shanghai its everyone for themselves.

Saturday - this morning it was off to the South Bund fabric market. It's a huge mall with about 75-100 stalls and shops selling customer tailored suits, and other fabric related products. Our haul for today included:

2 custom suits (men's)
1 custom suit (women's)
1 trenchcoat (women's)
1 heavyweight wool jacket (women's)
1 custom silk shirt (women's)
7 custom made shirts
13 ties (yes 13)
2 sets of cuff links
1 watch
1 huge duffel bag
1 belt

for Roughly $650, not bad for a morning's work. Tonight we plan to hit the Bund, do some sightseeing and possibly more shopping (we still need a tea set and maybe some chopsticks).

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