Jie Di Lia @ Shanghai, China

While I walking around Ningbo road in Shanghai, I saw this restaurant selling meal set and with reasonable pricing. I would like to try on the meat pie but I don't prefer to buy it from street stall. Here they have many meal set for you to choose from.

Taste:7/10(Moderate. The meat pie which have the savoury taste is quite good but the noodles is average).
Price:6/10(Moderate).


Vegetarian noodles set. It comes with a meat pie and orange juice.

Meat pie which comes with the noodles set.

Meat pie.

Quite a tasty pie.

Do check out for this shop when you visit Shanghai.

GPS/Coordinate: 31.239173, 121.484011
Website: www.mydofood.com

Lujiazui @ Shanghai, China

Lujiazui is a new financial district of Shanghai. it is located on the east side of the Huangpu River in Pudong, and sits directly across the river from the old financial and business district of the Bund.


Shanghai iconic Oriental Pearl Tower during day time.

Oriental Pearl Tower during night.

The huge sphere on the tower.

Shanghai IFC building. View from circular pedestrian bridge. The bridge provides access to the Oriental Pearl Tower connecting financial area to leisure areas such as shopping malls and cafes, Lujiazui metro station and office buildings. The bridge sits almost 20 feet above the street, with numerous escalator stairway entrances and exits. The pedestrian bridge overpass enables pedestrians to avoid traffic at the roundabout of Lujiazui Road.

Super Brand Mall of Shanghai.

Looking towards old financial centre of The Bund. You can cross the river using the available ferry services.

Sphere during sunset.

Shanghai World Financial Centre area with many tall buildings. Most of the buildings are among the tallest in China.

Although Lujiazui is a financial centre of Shanghai, but it also a famous tourist attraction.

Selfie with Oriental Pearl Tower.

GPS/Coordinate: 31.238036, 121.501601
Public transport: Lujiazui station on Shanghai Metro via line 2.

Sichuan dinner at Ba Guo Bu Yi Restaurant @ Shanghai, China

Ba Guo Bu Yi is a famous restaurant chain in China serving good sichuan style (ma la) or spicy cooking. What's great about this restaurant is that they also have great face changing performances. The face changing show starts at 8pm every evening, the performance is short but entertaining. The energetic performer leaps and bounds in dramatic fashion, his face flashing through a range of colors and expressions in seconds. He even departs the stage and walk around the crowd and pose for pictures after the show. There are twenty Ba Guo Bu Yi outlets across China including Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Sanya and Nanjing. There are also three stores in Chengdu itself, including the flagship store where seats are particularly hard to come by, but booking at any and all is definitely recommended, especially if you want to catch the show.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. The meal is excellent with a type of spiciness that I never taste before. The pepper used is different compared to the pepper that I normally take. The sichuan fish in dried and pepper is a must try with melt in your mouth chili oil. Really good).



This slices of pork with cucumber taste great with the spicy sauce which comes with it. Finely sliced pork belly hanging over small wooden trestles, ready to be wrapped around slices of cucumber and spring onion.

Good presentation and taste great.

Very nice packaging of chopstick and tissue paper.

Dried chili and dried pepper fish. This dish is superb and tasty. However beware. Its super spicy.

Dried chili mutton with vegetables.


Beef stomach with braised spicy peanut.

Ma la spicy bean curd. Looks at the red paste surrounding the bean curd. Spicy!

Famous China Tsingtao beer. The beer taste good and have a trace of sweetness.

The Tsingtao beer is a bit light in colour.

Kailan with oyster sauce.

Impressive face changing show.

The face changing man came to our table. He smiled when I wanted to take picture :-)

Quite a big crowd in the restaurant.

This is the restaurant signboard.

GPS/Coordinate: 31.211339, 121.423489
Address: 1018 Dingxi Road, Changning, Shanghai, China.

Shanghainese dinner @ Ying Pot restaurant, Shanghai, China

This restaurant was recommended by the hostel staff at the place that I stayed. Usually I will try the local food when I arrived at a new place. In my opinion the food in Shanghai is not much different compared to chinese food in Malaysia. The only exception is the taste in Shanghai is more strong and saltier. Most of the cooking here will use soy sauce to braise meat especially pork and dried chili for spicy "ma lat" type of cooking. The decoration inside the restaurant were nice and with air-conditioned. The location of this restaurant is very convenient as its near to Nanjing Road shopping street.

Taste:8/10(Good. The good here overall is good just that a bit salty. Their braised beef stomach taste great with good texture and I like this the most. The pork tail were good as well but the portion is too big for a single person to finish it. The sweet potato dessert were just nice).
Price:6/10(Moderate. Pork tail soy bean at 56 Yuan, braised beef stomach at 32 Yuan, sweet potato dessert at 16 Yuan. Total bill were 104 Yuan).


Pork tail braised soy beans.

Braised beef stomach.

Sweet potato dessert.

Ying Pot restaurant on Shanxi South Road in Shanghai.

GPS/Coordinate: 31.237916, 121.481831
Address: 239 Shanxi South Road, Huangpu, Shanghai, China.
Public transport: East Nanjing Road station exit no 1 on Shanghai Metro via line 2 or line 10.

The Bund @ Shanghai, China

The Bund is a famous waterfront and regarded as the symbol of Shanghai for hundreds of years. It is on the west bank of Huangpu River with length of 1500 meters. The most famous and attractive sight which is at the west side of the Bund are the various buildings of different architectural styles including Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicism and the Renaissance.


Old and westernized building at The Bund.

Colourful flower arrangement at The Bund.

Statue of Mao Zedong at The Bund of Shanghai.

From southern side of The Bund, you can see the different architectural styles of the buildings.

This is northern of The Bund where there are many tall buildings. These are mainly high end hotels such as Hyatt and The Peninsular. The House of Roosevelt, which houses the Rolex Flagship Store and the largest wine cellar in China.

Facing the busy Nanjing Road from The Bund.

View of Oriental Tower from The Bund.

The financial centre of Shanghai at Lujiazui.

The Swatch Art Peace Hotel.

GPS/Coordinate: 31.238839, 121.490367
Public transport: 15 minutes walk from East Nanjing Road Station

Yu Garden / Yuyuan Garden @ Shanghai, China

Yu Garden or Garden of Happiness is a extensive chinese garden located in the central of Shanghai. The layout of Yu Yuan, which contains several gardens-within-gardens, can make strolling here a bit confusing, but if you stick to a general clockwise path from the main entrance, you should get around most of the estate and arrive eventually at the Inner Garden and final exit. Occupying just 2 hectares (5 acres), it appears quite expansive, with room for 30 pavilions.


Entrance gate to Yu garden area.

Many traditional chinese looking building.

Rows of shops.




Walking towards Yu Garden. Many tourist around and its quite crowded.


Traditional building.

Many art works which is delicate on sale.

Modern and touristy.

Inside Yu Garden area there are many food stalls available as well.

Visit the City Temple of Shanghai.

People praying to the god.

Smoky environment. The visitors are praying to the god.


A lady burning incense.

Statue of god in the City Temple of Shanghai.

Photo inside the temple. God guards.


A small temple but many visitors.


This is the main attraction. The Yu Garden.

There are some stalls around Yu garden. This guy is drying the tea leaves.

Scenery around Yu Garden.

Statue of Guan Yin at the middle of the Yu Garden lake.

GPS/Coordinate: 31.227236, 121.492083
Address: 218 Anren St, Huangpu, Shanghai, China
Public transport: Yuyuan Garden station on line 10.