Weekend Wanderings: January 26

As of now, studying abroad is pretty awesome, partly because we are able to wander anywhere around the area on the weekends and/or after classes some days (especially on days where some of us only have Chinese, which ends at latest 11:45am).  This particular weekend was our first weekend of the semester, aka we were not going to stay in and just do homework.  So..weekend plans? It was pretty spontaneous.  The only thing we actually planned that weekend was KTV at Hao Le Di (which was a little insane...won't go into details) and going to the Marriage Market on Sunday (which was documented two posts below).  

After the Marriage Market, one of our friend's friend from Korea wanted dim sum, so we searched everywhere near  People's Square, walking into every hotel and asking if their restaurants had dim sum (I mean what did we expect...we're in Shanghai, not Hong Kong, so dim sum was a bit of a struggle to find).  We finally decided to be a little adventurous and just take the subway to Pudong, where the Financial Center and the Oriental Pearl Tower are located (which is about a 30 mins subway away and across the river to the other side of the Bund).  

Welcome to Shangri-la! We were a little bit underdressed for the Shangri-la, but oh well.  We ended up eating dim sum at Fook Lam Moon on the second floor.  Probably by far my best meal in Shanghai thus far...it wasn't even Shanghainese food.  We (everyone that ate there that day) have to thank our 很好的朋友（very awesome friend) Tiana for that delicious meal!  We owe you!  

Dim Sum at Shangri-la.  We had nine people at lunch, so we ordered triple of everything.

Close up of the Oriental Pearl Tower (We will be taking a trip to the actual tower with NYU one day).

Photo Credit: Tiana

Some of our awesome family led by Mama duck (Tiana).

Seen above: Claire, Marissa, Choi, his friend from Korea, Tiana, Chloe, Jae, Alexis, and myself.

View of the Bund from Pudong.

As we were walking to find the ferry back to the other side of the river, we stumbled across a scallion pancake cart..delicious, cost 3RMB aka about 50cents!

We accidentally took the wrong ferry to the other side of the river; therefore, we just wandered around Yu Yuan until we found a subway to take back to campus.

Half a week left until our first break!