Tuesday 5th September. Shanghai. 25-36°C. Sunny and Hot. Everything in China is big. Big numbers (population 1.6 billion), Big cities (Shanghai 24.15 million), Big construction (I have never seen so much building activity), Big highways, Big flavours. With quantity comes efficiency. (In the middle of the night I thought of the words that describes this, but…

Sunday 4th September. Shanghai. 27-31ºC. Partly sunny. A little warning. Today’s blog contains discussion about snot. It has other good stuff too. But there is definitely a little of the not-so-pretty chat. Dave has being feeling slightly under the weather over the last two days or so. Nothing too serious, just a slightly sore throat and…

Sunday 3rd September. Father’s Day. Weather: 24-28°C. Cloudy and humid. Expectations were high. Dangerous I know. I had previously been on two food walks with ‘Culinary Backstreet Tours’ in Tokyo and Barcelona. Both were excellent. A Shanghai walking food tour is now added to the list of unbelievable experiences. Logan our guide was terrific; the other four in…

Sorry no post from yesterday  – It was a pretty exhausting day, mostly involving travel from Chengdu to Shanghai. I will write a two-day version when we are back at the hotel tonight. We are just about to head of on a culinary tour of Shanghai – I cant wait… I hope my expectations aren’t…

Friday 1st September. Today’s weather: 20 – 24ºC; Cloudy with an occasional shower. Hang picked us up after breakfast, this time on foot. We walked the short distance to the subway and caught the train to the centre part of Chengdu City. The trains are new, clean and fast and we were efficiently in the…