fun shanghai [part 1]

since im super dooper behind in my shanghai - china postings,
and i cant remember what we did on which day
im just going to blog in any random order
starting with this meat fest :D

strolling through the biggest shopping mall in shanghai [super brand mall] in the pudong area
we came across a cook your self bbq place
looked really good and promising and busy
so we decided to eat here

one look at the menu and we were stuffed!
there is not a SCRAP of english anywhere eeeeeeek!!!
there were pictures, which was some saving grace but apart from that
nothing in english.

so we ordered - which was another challenge -
we speak no chinese and the waiters spoke none or VERY little english
one poor idiot was assigned to us, i think because he had the most english out of the whole lot of them
and lets just say he didnt speak very much at all.

anyways it all worked out in one way or another and we got all our food without ordering strange meats like dog and crocodile etc [good sign]. but what we noticed was that all the other tables ordered lettuce and NO ONE ordered rice. we thought that was strange - no one eats rice? well they dont. unlike me and my peasant hubby - who do eat rice. what they do is place their grilled meats and veg into the lettuce cups, roll it up and eat it. and so we learnt something new that day. and that explain why they had so many different types of lettuce on the menu [and there i was thinking, what the f*** ?! people here eat grilled lettuce?]

the dipping condiments were very yummy, the one on the left is a peanut sauce style, and the spices on the right were like a spicy dhukkah. it all went down very well, very tasty, reasonably priced for shanghai [$25 aud for 2 ppl] - just a little greasy.

xo.clio
more adventures to come!