don't play the fool with mee!

After nearly one month's hiatus, i'm gonna bring you some common stuff people eats on the streets of shanghai. First of all, it's not recommendable to eat food that cooks on a push carts. Both the front officers and taxi drivers screamed, "Cannot! Not hygenic. Later you'll get diarrhae!" Though the mutton sates and baby squids sates were very tempting. So where can we all eat? Any restaurants! Luckily there's few around the place we stay. Hmmm ... since i did my homework and studied the mandarin, that should be enough for me to avoid body language or appeared like an idiot! First night, my leg wasn't getting used to the walking, thus we went to the restaurant next to our motel. A nice restaurant with traditional chinese motif decor... pricing, moderate. The menu was rather long, and giving me headache. So i ordered according to the pricing : stir fried celery, and braised beef. When the dishes were served. We're surprised! For the vegie, there's of course, celery, and...nothing more. No condiments, no garnish. It's the simplest thing i'd ever tried in my entire life. The braised beef was unique in a sense i couldn't describe the taste or figure out the seasoning, and mind me, the taste was good! And servers were, not rude, but fierce!
Day 2, i woke up very hungry. Blame it to the weather! We walked around 100m parameter and found a 24 hours chinese eatery. No fancy decor. Just plastic tables and chairs, and dirty floor. But it seemed like a place where they had operated for decades. So according to my limited logic, the food should be reasonably good! The menu was very very long. And again, my headache started. There's more than twenty types of noodles, left alone the rice variety! And by looking at the menu one never have any idea how would the food taste. Ok, there's description of it whether it's chicken, pork, beef, duck or whatever the meat it was. How it's cook? Don't ask me!

We ordered, and at the same time kept our fingers crossed. After 10 minutes, two bowls of piping hot noodles were put on our table. The one with stir fried beef and a lot of celery was for me, whereas vince ordered mee (malaysian pronunciation of noodles) with pork. And he got deep fried pork ribs. The bowls were huge. but wait a minute, where's the spoon? We asked the staff who couldn't be bother. And great! There's no spoon! After struggling with the mee for an hour, i surrendered.