11-17-18 Shanghai

Woke up and figured out that one of the restaurants (really two of them) that I'd read about remotely was only about a 8 minute walk away.   Yang's fried dumplings...   Time for breakfast!

SUPER GOOD!

Navigated the subway to a foodie walk and cooking class I signed up for...

Got there early so per their recommendation went into a "cake" cafe and had

some tiramisu...

Started the foodie tour about 30 minutes later...  Group of 8 of us and the guide.

Started with a dumpling  restaurant...  somewhat soup dumplings in the shape of ears...

A glass of a mixture of plum, smoked plum and something juice.   Very cooling and prepped us for

many things to eat...

Then onto a second restaurant for more friend dumplings like what I got at Yang's, but these were fried on the "folded" part (vs Yang's which was fried on the bottom part)

Pork and also a Pork/Shrimp version..

Then some sweet dessert dumplings...Filled with a sweet sesame paste...

and some won-ton soup dumplings..pork filling

Then onto another place for potstickers!

and shanghai soup dumplings (xiao long bau)

and a type of dumpling stuffed with rice and soy...

Then some dessert bau... Custard Bao (very similar to what I had in Kennedy Town in Hong Kong a year ago)

Then onto cooking class... we learned how to make ha-gow (shrimp dumplings)

All done -- and time was slowly bleeding and melting away...

So I decided to check out a local temple...

and the bye-bye buddah

And had to be careful heading back --

Took a long long nap and then went out to dinner at a hairy crab restaurant...

Some pork filled dumplings to start..

and then onto the main course...

Which I made a mess of!  Boom!!   Good eating (very Sweet!) but a lot of hard and messy work

After eating I went back to the same market area and bought more fruit and some dessert treats.   Also on the way back to the hotel saw a huge line in front of window whose only english said "Pastry" so I stood in line and bought some...   Here is the array of my dessert/breakfast treats...

The mandarin oranges (small) are quite good -- already finished yesterday's batch so glad I got more...