Clipped Wings

Highlights of the trip

Dongmen Buxing Jie

The luohu district version of orchard road. There are hundreds or at least a thousand shops there. And on top of that I counted about 7 or 8 shopping malls jammed with shops selling clothes mainly, tattoo parlors, restraunts, KFC, Pizza Hut and of course Macdonalds (China's first Macdonalds was there). You can literally get anything you want there. However, there was one I would say BIG problem. They sell mainly seasonal clothing, which meant winter wear. It was quite a turn off really. I bought socks (2 pairs for 10 yuan = 2 sgd) for myself and lots of rubbish stuff to give away as christmas presents, hehehe. If it was in season, I would have taken 3 days to finish up my shopping there. 

Huaqiangbei in Futian district

WARNING! One place where you would not want to bring any female along. There's several shopping malls selling female stuff only. Lingerie, cosmetics, perfumes, clothes, need I say more? Oh and the hagen daz ice cream there was good. I remember trying to drag shang ming out of 女人世界 shopping mall. We spent 2 hours walking just 6 floors of the building trying to find something to buy for the usual, moms, sisters, girlfriends. But most importantly, we didn't buy anything because 90% of the time we spent it rating how hot the girls are inside. 

Clubbing in Shenzhen

One look at the both of us and locals would know we ain't locals. No one would wear just shirt and jeans when it was freezing and windy outside. But its clubbing! And you're suppose to work up a sweat and alcohol is suppose to do the rest. The first club i can't remember the name, was okay. There is no entrance fee and girls are darn darn darn HOT! Prices for poisons are about the same as SG, but the tequila was twice the amount. Beers are cheaper than SG though. I remember RICHIE as the happening one as it was more roomie, and it was jammed with people. But i didn't like the ratio of guys to girls, quite disproportional. I'll go back to the other one, when I head back in august 2009. 

HK

We were suppose to go hongkong. But half the time we weren't sober and didnt wake up early enough to make the 30min trip across the border to kowloon. So there was no HK this time round... Suxs. This coming August i'm heading back again during my poly vacation, this time I'm going HK, try the clubbing and wanton mee there.

Xiao Fei Yang Hotpot 

In China, or at least in shenzhen. The average hot pot restaraunts market just one type of meat. For our case, it would be lamb meat, brains, ear, stomach, liver, hoofs and etc. Yes lamb hoofs, you read it right! Again we gave away our identity, since arriving we tried really hard to blend in as local chinese in order not to get ripped off. But still, we ordered all our food spicy, and the manager came up to us telling us we can really take spicy food, and he asked us where we were from. What to do.. Singaporeans mah, we like it spicy for our food, girls too. 

Taxi

Its really cheap if you're Singaporean. From our hotel to Dongmen the flag down rate is about 12.5 yuan (2.50 sgd) and the total fare was 12.5 yuan. I'm not sure how the meter works cos it didn't jump at all, but I like it. Just a little info it took us about 20 to 30 mins to walk from our hotel to Dongmen, so imagined the distance the taxi had to travel, and the meter didn't changed.

In Singapore the meters were jumping every time the wheels complete a revolution.