Food, karaoke and a 96th-floor afterparty

Food

The food in China is delicious. Everything I've eaten so far has been really good. But of course I don't always feel like going out somewhere to eat. To stay a bit Chinese anyway, we bought instant noodles with a less Chinese flavour: black pepper steak. But they were really good!

We also wondered what Chinese people eat in the morning, because they don't eat bread or cereal here. Apparently people here eat at little stalls on their way to work. So we tried that too! I don't know what it's called, but it was a kind of bao. You get them with meat or with vegetables. And they cost next to nothing: 1–2 RMB a bun, which comes down to 0.13–0.26 euro. I sometimes don't understand how they make any money.

Karaoke

Hutong, the organisation I'm in Shanghai with, also organises lots of activities. Last night was a KTV (karaoke) night. At first it's really awkward, but after a while everyone was singing along and passing the microphone around. It was great fun! It was very cheap again too: 40 RMB, or 5.45 euros. That was including beer! Unbelievable.

Afterparty

For the afterparty we went to the Shanghai WTC tower. It's one of the buildings you can see in the photo on the front page of my blog! We'd got a code from a promoter to get in for free. Outside there were Lamborghinis, Porsches, … It was crazy, like being in a film. Then we took the lift up. It was on the 96th floor… THE 96TH FLOOR! It was super fancy and high-end, and we felt a bit out of place, so we didn't stay very long, but it was definitely worth it!

All in all it's really nice here in Shanghai. I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad I took this chance!