Too Hopping

This week I had been to one of our cutomer’s plant. It was a nice exposure to see all the parts being made and assembled. When I was back in shanghai on Friday a friend of min was back in office and things were cooking already cooking up of what to do over the weekend. At 5:30 in the evening we took a cab and went to his hotel where he was staying and went to a café near-by where we had to meet another friend. Here we ate some food….it was more or less like dinner. This was at 6:30PM, yes the Chinese eat their meal very early. I had rice with fried prawns. It was good. There was frog also to eat….yew. from there after freshing up in the room we went to this place called Malone’s on Tongren Ren Lu. This is an American café and they serve you good food n beer. When I entered the place it was like a different world. Just Americans and Europeans. The waitresses here speak very good English and the crowd is also good. We came to this place at around 8:00 PM. There is a live band playing here and they start playing at 9:30. we wanted to see the band playing so we waited for some time. There are actually two girls in the band who do all the singing apart from the drummer, two guitarist and a pianist. These girls have really sweet voice and they know how to entertain you. They started singing and all the crowd their was just listening to them to singing. There were singing mostly pop and country songs …there was one song from U2 after which they took a break at 10:30PM.
Now we changed the base, we went to another place called Judy’s Too on Maoming Nan Lu. This place is kinda a pakka joint for having beer, dancing and maybe hooking on to somebody. As usual some more beer and dancing. When we came in the crowd had not yet gathered. And the dance floor was mostly occupied by some girls . there were these pali girls guessing here, two of them dancing like hell and they did not want to dance with anybody else. I guess they were lesbians. Well thenas the crowd poured in and it was our time to get on the dance floor. I was not willing to dance, don’t know why it didn’t get my dancing shoes turn on. I just sat there and had my beer. Sometime later my friend along with a girl came to me asked me to dance with her. He he he I said ok and during the time that we dance with her I came to know that she is from Philippines. She asked me to buy her a drink I said ok. The interesting part is that they don’t drink booze, they drink milk. The again I was back on my stool for sometime and on the dance floor…chuma dancing . Then I danced with another girl also from Philippines . I danced with her for two songs and it was the best that I did while I was in Judy’s too. Then around midnight I could not take it any more, I was tired and wanted to sleep. But this friend of mine got hooked to a Chinese girl and was making her dance her like hell. She was also enjoying though. The Chinese do know how to enjoy. It was around 1:30 AM in the morning that we took a taxi and went to another place called Cincinati. I don’t know where it is. This place has the ambience of an European street. We went to a bar called Rendezvous. Here also the atmosphere was the same as in Judy’s too. We just had a beer hanged out for about half an hour and went to another placed Judy’s. all the places that we went till now are open till 2 in the morning, except for this Judy’s which is open till 5 in the morning. By the time we reached this place I was damn hungry and had to eat something. We had a pizza before going to Judy’s. We did not drink here. There were girls who were dancing on a pole, not naked though. There was one huge girl in all aspects hardly wearing anything…phew I was wondering how the hell can she tolerate the cold. I was bloody freezing. The entire day it may be sunny but once the sun goes down, that’s it is freezing cold and if it is windy you are done. From this place we went to play pool and TT in the adjacent building. Heh he he pool and TT after getting drunk. Finally we went back to the hotel at 4 AM.
In the morning I came back to my room and had a nice shower before going to the Westin hotel for lunch. Ah this place is like heaven. Very good. It is a seven star hotel and went there specifically for food. Had a Mexican drink (not getting the spelling). The food was really good had sea eggs (brinjals), dumplings, dim sum, spring rolls, duck and a beautiful fish. We also got sparkling water to drink. It is also know as soda water. Actually it is carbonated water with essential minerals in it. It tastes good also. The food was filling. From there I went towards the Bund but landed up in Yu Garden. This place is like traditional Chinese, the buildings are like what we see on tv or in movies. And more interestingly the entire place sells only and only Chinese artifacts. I guess it is the best place to but some souvenirs. The weather was bad, cloudy, windy and damn cold….brrrrr…..from Yu Garden I went to meet some more friends and then we went to a Japanese restaurant. A nice place to eat. The scene is like it is a rectangle table with on side for the chef and the other three sides are for the guests to sit and eat. The chef makes all the dishes in front of you and serves it hot. Huh it was a long time that somebody was serving me fresh hot food. What all did we have apart from Asahi Beer (Japanese beer and the glasses in which it was served was more than a pint) had fishes (which all I don’t know), prawns, lamb, mutton, mushrooms(I don’t like it), vegetables and to top it up fried banana ice cream. Yes banana was fried and put on the ice cream. The most exciting part is when the chef makes the fire and the flames go up…ooooo it was so warm.:-)
Oh I had lots of beer and fish and at a stage I was like a heavy rock. So after havin and elaborate and heavy dinner we went to KTV ( Karaoke TV ). Chinese are very crazy about this place. You get to sing the songs. The lyrics come up on the TV screen and you just have to sing along. It was fun, although there weren’t any songs that I could understand. At around 11:45 we all left to get back to our places. Now as I am writing this I am wondering what to do today???