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Planned on updating yesterday but was thwarted when all my hard work on the original post decided to up and disappear/ Thanks LJ.
We got in LATE Tuesday night into Shenzhen. There was a delay leaving Detroit and we had to race through Narita to catch our connection to Hong Kong. Thankfully, the staff in Narita are awesome and all the connecting flights for people on our plane were held. Meanwhile though, overall though, we spent about 24 hours traveling. It was probably 2am (we're 12 hours ahead of those in EST fyi) before we went to bed and had to get up early for meetings. Yesterday was a little more easygoing. no meetings so we were able to catch up on our a sleep a bit and didn't wander into the office until nearly noon. Today will be more meetings.
Foodwise, I've yet to be disappointed. Save for a trip to Starbucks (and ftr, the coffee at Starbucks here is far superior to the crap at starbucks in the states. The milk they use is better and you can tell they don't burn the beans when they're roasted, lending to a much smoother flavor). Also got a garden veggie scone from there (omg they need these in the states), and a piece of mango raspberry soy yogurt cake (think cheesecake in appearance and taste). Other than that it's been the good local stuff. Lunch for me has been fish for the past two days and probably again today. Dinner the first night involved a trip to a place in Cocoa Park where we ordered fish, beef, duck, several different veggies including bok choy and spicy cucumber, plus I had my first taste of dragonfruit which is soooo yummy! Dinner last night was tofu, I'm guessing teryaki tofu, plus more bok choy, and i tried a little bit of soup involving some pig liver, intestines, and yes, brain (the brain was absolutely disgusting but surprisingly the rest was good). I've been letting Summer order for me since I'm willing to try just about anything and figure he knows what's good and not. I do think I want a different fish for lunch today, so we'll see what happens there.
As for the fun stuff, first night after dinner, we went for foot & shoulder massages. My shoulders are still sore, like REALLY FARKING SORE!!!! But so worth it. These people know what they're doing, though I think we're going to a place closer to the apartment this next time.
We also hit the market last night. Wanted to get fabric but that didn't happen, but we did some prelim shopping. So much stuff, it's crazy. I believe we're going back today but the major shopping will be either over the weekend or next week.
I'm posting pictures on flickr. Only two up so far, but I'll post more later.
Think that's it for now. Have a meeting at 9 and i think it's time for some breakfast.
We got in LATE Tuesday night into Shenzhen. There was a delay leaving Detroit and we had to race through Narita to catch our connection to Hong Kong. Thankfully, the staff in Narita are awesome and all the connecting flights for people on our plane were held. Meanwhile though, overall though, we spent about 24 hours traveling. It was probably 2am (we're 12 hours ahead of those in EST fyi) before we went to bed and had to get up early for meetings. Yesterday was a little more easygoing. no meetings so we were able to catch up on our a sleep a bit and didn't wander into the office until nearly noon. Today will be more meetings.
Foodwise, I've yet to be disappointed. Save for a trip to Starbucks (and ftr, the coffee at Starbucks here is far superior to the crap at starbucks in the states. The milk they use is better and you can tell they don't burn the beans when they're roasted, lending to a much smoother flavor). Also got a garden veggie scone from there (omg they need these in the states), and a piece of mango raspberry soy yogurt cake (think cheesecake in appearance and taste). Other than that it's been the good local stuff. Lunch for me has been fish for the past two days and probably again today. Dinner the first night involved a trip to a place in Cocoa Park where we ordered fish, beef, duck, several different veggies including bok choy and spicy cucumber, plus I had my first taste of dragonfruit which is soooo yummy! Dinner last night was tofu, I'm guessing teryaki tofu, plus more bok choy, and i tried a little bit of soup involving some pig liver, intestines, and yes, brain (the brain was absolutely disgusting but surprisingly the rest was good). I've been letting Summer order for me since I'm willing to try just about anything and figure he knows what's good and not. I do think I want a different fish for lunch today, so we'll see what happens there.
As for the fun stuff, first night after dinner, we went for foot & shoulder massages. My shoulders are still sore, like REALLY FARKING SORE!!!! But so worth it. These people know what they're doing, though I think we're going to a place closer to the apartment this next time.
We also hit the market last night. Wanted to get fabric but that didn't happen, but we did some prelim shopping. So much stuff, it's crazy. I believe we're going back today but the major shopping will be either over the weekend or next week.
I'm posting pictures on flickr. Only two up so far, but I'll post more later.
Think that's it for now. Have a meeting at 9 and i think it's time for some breakfast.