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Shanghai-Part II I finally got to old town. I found historical buildings converted to house modern day stores, including a Starbucks and McDonald's, wedged right next to street stalls selling foods on a stick and other Chinese goods. When in Rome, right? When I saw the choices, my courage waned. I was not a Bizarre Foods Queen on this trip. Instead I chose to watch while a traveling companion did his thing. His choice-a bird looking creature impaled on sharp choptick, head and all. He chewed in what seemed like slow motion, and it dawned on me then--All the open space around us, the kind of space that would normally be teeming with pigeons, was totally devoid of birds of any kind. My stomach turned over and excuse the cliche, but I really did throw up a little in my mouth. He was eating the rat of the sky. Other tourists stopped to watch the over-sized hairy american eat the unidentified birdie. We moved to find a restaurant, preferably one that served food we
I've been on blog silence. I've been busy, casting Marrying Up (more about that later) and doing a little bit of traveling. Shanghai What do do when you have only one day in China? Everything you can. After 16 hours of flying, I opted not to go to sleep. Instead, after showering away the airplane grunge, I headed out for a drink with my new chinese friend. It was a Sunday, but not the Sabbath here, so everything was as open as a whorehouse in a Navy port of call. Shanghai never closes, so even at ten pm on a Sunday, lights flashed and locals filled the streets. Locals-Let's explore that. I was told Shanghai was the expatriate city of China, so it took a minute for me to see Chinese faces. What I was seeing looked more like downtown Brooklyn that the Far East. After a few drinks and the required tourist photos, I slept a little and rose early, like 5AM early, and waited for the sun to come up. I wasn't trying to be romantic. My body was confused and si