Here is a short video from our Sunday morning trip to Fuxing park. Fuxing park is located in the former French Concession, just a few subway stops away from our apartment. Parks are the place to be on early mornings and late evenings. As you can see from our videos, the parks fill with free entertainment. Dancers, jugglers, singers, guys playing cards (a strangely popular spectator sport), groups of mahjong players, you name it.
There is an outdoor tea house in the middle of fuxing park. I used the point and pick method and wound up with a cup of nearly undrinkably strong green tea. Instead of fighting the crowd to find a free table, you only need to find a free patch of patio and wait for a burly man to bring you a set of chairs, your own glass table, and a hot water thermos the size of a fire hydrant for tea refills. I gulped and watered my leaves trying to dilute the tea, but it remained strong and bitter throughout each refill.
We have loads of pictures and vidoes from the park. Here is one teaser to start your Tuesday morning with a bang.
In other news, I started my Chinese classes today. I learned the phrase "so so", mama zuzu, literally "horse horse tiger tiger".
Labels: blogsherpa, China, Shanghai
Do the dancers switch partners? Or stay with the one who brought them?
We actually have a Shanghai Tea House in Glover Park now, also supplied with some undrinkably strong green tea. So it must be authentic :)
-Sherry
Sherry and Ed said...
June 29, 2009 at 9:21 PM
I know how to get to that park by taxi. You tell the driver "woo-loo-moo-chee loo, foo-shing loo"
arleen said...
June 29, 2009 at 9:54 PM
OK, your adoring audience wants a better locator in the space-time continuum. Therefore, tell us where you live in relation to the University and other Shanghai landmarks. Also, please tell us about your daily sojourn on the bus. I would pay cash to see you get up at 5:30 a.m..
Andy said...
June 29, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Does it reflect poorly on my maturing that I giggled when I read that you went to Fuxing Park?
Katie said...
June 30, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Hi Mom. We didn't watch what happened between dances but it looked like the partners knew each other pretty well.
Seth said...
June 30, 2009 at 3:40 AM
Andy wrote:
> I would pay cash to see you get up at 5:30 a.m
Well you're in luck! Tickets from Boston to Shanghai PuDong are a mere $1000. You're welcome to see this death-defying feat in person. Actually, 5:30am here really isn't 5:30am. As I'm sure you know China is in ONE time zone even though it's plenty wide to cover 5 time zones. I don't know what time it really is but I'm guessing 7am.
As for our location, we are in the northern end of the Xujiahui (shoo-ja-whay) district, near the Crown Royal hotel and the Xuhui Campus of Jiao Tong University. (Hey! You don't know where any of these things are! Why did you ask?)
Seth said...
June 30, 2009 at 3:54 AM
Andy & Seth,
there is actually a Google map of where you are living. I looked at the photo of the front of your apt. building & googled the name. I got apt. listings with the address & put that in google & a very good map of the area came up.
arleen said...
June 30, 2009 at 5:46 AM
I apologize to everyone on this blog for the sorry state of Kt's maturity. She's always been this way. Back in high school she was not mature enough to focus on her studies. That is why she was always copying my Spanish homework. Gosh Poynter, you are a married, expectant woman now.
Mom, are you making this stuff up? Your spelling vaguely resembles this mumble jumble: I street want to be street, fuxing street.
Liz said...
June 30, 2009 at 6:28 AM
I got that off the internet. It is supposed to be how you ask directions to the Fuxing Park.
If I remember correctly, I did your Spanish homework with you, so Poynter needs to thank me!
Hey Kt what did that green T shirt you used to wear say? I think it was about "Barbie".
arleen said...
June 30, 2009 at 6:47 AM
Hey, someone sent me your blog...very interesting. I lived in China for 6 years...went 10 years ago next month and had one year back in Canada in the middle.
It's mamahuhu for so so, by the way. And jia is more like jyah
Have a look at our family photos:
Ian's photo home page.
http://homepage.mac.com/ian_mcall/Menu27.html
Ruth said...
July 4, 2009 at 4:48 AM
We will expect a show of your skills with the bamboo objects upon your return. Can you use one while riding a unicycle?
Andy said...
July 15, 2009 at 12:41 AM