What’s up y’all. Let’s get right to it. Last Friday, I paid a visit to Dada after
some time for a party. I don't remember much of it but it was a dope one. Taking advantage of the summer
weather, we hung out in a park across the street drinking some beers beforehand
– life is much better when it’s not cold. I also have to shout out
Shanghai for parks. I’m sure
I mentioned it before but I have never seen a poorly maintained park around
here. All parks are clean, super people friendly, they have playgrounds or some
fitness equipment, shitload of flowers and different kinds of trees, lakes,
statues… The really do set the bar
high…
My German friend who was here two week ago came to town once
again so I joined him and couple of his friends for a dinner. We went to one of my
favorite joint, JenDow by Jing’an
temple, however, this was my first experience with the restaurant on the second
floor. The place has like 4 stories – the ground
floor is the most popular and also the cheapest one, the other floors are
little pricier. It was cool as hell though – lots of
mock meat, veggies… Everything on point. After
that we hung out outside, drinking some beer and we followed a Swedish guy who
suggested to visit some bizarre Japanese place on my street. We got this little
room for ourselves, the Swedish guy ordered a bottle of some Japanese shit that
tasted like weak whiskey (and it was quite good) and talked till like 3am. I
loved the fact that for the whole time, they played reggae music – it so didn’t fit anything over there.
What kinda bothers me is street food trucks and stands
disappearing. The noodle lady and her competition isn’t around anymore over the night and according to my peers,
same goes for another areas in the city. If they try to shut the street food
game down, they are fucking retarded. It adds so much soul and value to the
night life, the whole idea of terminating it is just nuts. And yeah… in terms of hygiene, licenses and
shit like that, it might be quite debatable but shit like that makes China
beautiful. I read that they passed a law banning street food in Thailand
recently and it pretty much fucks up the whole energy of their cities… I honestly hope this is some kinda
temporary measure and I’m gonna
see the lady back on her grind soon…
Yesterday, I met up with one of my classmates, we took bikes
and did a big ass trip around Shanghai. It was like 30 degrees, sunny and
overall perfect. Among other things, we checked out newly opened Expo Museum,
located in the former Expo area – close to
the Powerstation of Art. It’s free,
it’s huge, the venue looks fantastic and
had to cost millions. It pretty much summarizes history of all Expos ever since
19th century all the way till like 2020. In 2019, they plan to do
one in Beijing so I might actually have a chance of seeing that…
I’m
trying to focus on school as much as possible but you know how it goes… With all the social media, with so
many music releases, with so much Shanghai all around… It gets challenging. Anyways – we’ve got
around 3 weeks to go in school and so far, so good...
Highlights:
- Caoxi Park – that one is just awesome.
- The Expo Museum building. Neat as a motherfucker.
- New pieces from Island6 at M50. Those guys keep killing it.
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