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What is available at the airport regarding coffee, snacks or other foodstuff?
Any recommendations? I will be needing coffee after the long flight!!
To: Hooptheworld
Welcome to China!
Almost everything is aiailable at Pudong Airport, you can find coffee, books, tea, silk manufacturing,snacks, etc.
Cheers!
Jefferson
it is a pleasant surprise, quite a decent selection, I like Lavazza for coffee, there are some juice places, snacks and beers.
Yeah, I always look forward to some nice silk manufacturing after a long flight.
Thanks for the responses...LaVazza is good, snacks are good...even manufacturing is good...will be a first for me at an airport!! Come hoop in Shanghai with me!!
I'm not nearly so enamoured with airport touring as all you other folk and I take my own fruit on the plane so I'm snacked out before I de-plane. I don't drink coffee so the social satisfaction of an hour drinking a cup of joe is out of my realm of appreciation. At the Pudong Airport, I usually don't stop for anything except the baggage claim and then I'm off to number six bus and into the city. Couldn't you just tank up on cafeine from the in-flight service and save yourself some dough? I suppose that removes much of the romance and adventure.
When you are approached by street solicitors and don’t want something .. the magic phrase is “Pooh Yo”
"Pooh" as in Winnie the Pooh, and "Yo" as in ‘Yo mamma is so ugly..”
One of our Chinese tour guides told us to say it so I assume that means it’s an appropriate phrase and not rude.
I think it means “I don’t want it, stop touching me and go away” Saying Pooh Yo works much better than saying No Thank You in English.
The Metro is a good and easy way to get around the city.
I've update the Website link to a newer better one where you can get a interactive map which gives the the best rount and total time. You can also download PDF files in English and Chinese. Download both so you can show the Chinese one to locals.
The image of the online maps are better then the photo in this tip, especially if you download the PDF files. They also have addition upto date information.
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The below web site has what the Shanghai Metro will look like in 2012. Today only lines 1 through 6 and 8, 9, 10 and a few others are running.
Metro in 2012 Only in Chinese:
http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20070321_future_shanghai_metro_and_maglev_map.htm
Please rate this and my other tips when you find them interesting, useful, or like the photos.
It is very very good for Nian Gao with Fried Pork Chop. Ultra tasty. The downstairs is like a cafetaria, upstairs is a proper restaurant. I think prices are higher upstairs, but the food is the same. we ordered some cold dishes of cold cucumbers, and octopus, and then we feasted each a platter of of the pork chop nian gao - very very yummy, and then had a sizzling shredded beef with lots of onions, and a plate of vege, which had very tender greens and the very delicious tender bamboo shoots. we also had a plate of green shoots, and came together something looking like vegetarian glutten but actually made of fish paste...very smooth to taste and tasty!!! Dinner ended with a huge serving of chilled mini rice ball, with sugary syrup which oddly they put in chopped pineapples. My husband loves it - i just loathe it!!!
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