Taiwanese food at Bellagio, DBS Tower - Puxi, Shanghai

Add: 68 Taicang Lu, near Songshan Lu, Puxi - Shanghai, China
Located: B1/F, DBS Bank Tower
Tel: +86 21 6386 5701
Opening hours: 11am - 10pm, daily

WK's favourite Taiwanese eatery in Shanghai, and it was good :-) Thanks so much for the wonderful treat!


I could do with another Taiwan beer :-)


Some local starters :-)

The mains arrived :-)

Signature ... Oops, national dish I mean. Taiwanese sausage :-)

Wow ... more mains, WK? How many did you order!

Minced chicken and shrimp, lettuce wrap ... Refreshing!

Pork and tofu dishes ... we were in heaven!

And there was dessert too ... a HUGE Taiwanese ice kachang which the 4+3 of us shared!

Shanghai - Driving from Pudong to Puxi

Pudong is home to many of Shanghai's best-known buildings - Oriental Pearl Tower, the Jin Mao Building, the Shanghai World Financial Center.
These modern skyscrapers face directly across from Puxi's historic Bund, the remnant of Shanghai's former concessions.
In fact ... Pudong was formerly a little-developed agricultural area linked only by ferries, Pudong has grown rapidly since the 1990s and emerged as China's financial and commercial hub.

Here's some shots as WK drove us across from Pudong to Puxi back in summer 2011...


Welcome to Puxi!

Puxi (Chinese: 浦西) is known to be the historic center of Shanghai, China, and remains the home of approximately 48% of Shanghai's residents in an area of 288 km². Puxi is separated from Pudong to its east, by the Huangpu River. Despite the growing importance of Pudong's Lujiazui area, Puxi remains Shanghai's cultural, residential and commercial centre.

Singapore's DBS was spotted... as we headed to dinner :-)

Din Tai Fung, Xintiandi - Shanghai

Add: Xintiandi entertainment area / mall - Unit 11A, House 6, 2F, Lane 123, Xin Ye Road
Tel: +86 21 6385 8378
Other branches: DTF website
Opening hours: Daily, 11am-3pm (Lunch) and 5pm-10pm (Dinner)


I just realised that our summer 2011 trip to Shanghai was not completely captured in my previous write-ups, here's bbG's first visit to Din Tai Fung :-) After all, we can't come all the way to Shanghai and not have Xiu Loong Bao!

Pretty ginger!

Reasonably good egg fried rice with pork chop on the side :-)

Cha Chiang Mien ... slurrrrps. I can still taste it :-)

The masterpiece! Yes, its good. Very good :-)

Shanghai - The Bund by night

Here are some photos from our trip to Shanghai in summer 2011 :-)

SLR: Nikon D80 (with MC-DC1 remote shutter release - I like the cabled version, rather then the remote-control option)
Other photos: Wuzhen by night, and more Wuzhen by night ...
Lens: Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8


The Bund :-)


More shots of The Bund ...

Din Tai Fung, Shanghai takeaway - By Guest

This is a special post, by a Guest Correspondent in the Far East. Not sure how often he will wanna post, but here goes the first one :-)

It's strange that in my 5 years living in Shanghai, I rank a Taiwanese chain restaurant (Din Tai Fung, no doubt) as having the best xiao loong bao in Shanghai. This, in the home turf of the amazingly hawt mini pork dumplings with runny soup in it. Not even the hallowed
grounds of the suburb of Nanxiang ranks higher in the hawt-o-meter.
But this post has all to do with Din Tai Fung but nothing at all related to the little dragon bun.



To me, DTF also serves some of the best double boiled soupy noodles around. This is the double boiled beef shank noodle, side dish: simple spinach for the weekend supply of iron. Soup is clear and seems MSG free, indication that the meat has been blanched in hot water before being cooked in, what would result in the soup.
The noodles, as expected for a takeaway, has fused together, but when the soup is poured over it, is almost passable. Hey, you don't expect me to pull my own la-mien, do you? Good stuff. Best taken with a hot cup of Pu Er tea.
(Fat tub of ice cream can come later)

Shanghai -KL on MAS MH387

Flight: Mas MH 387

Time: 10:15am - 03:30pm (Grr ... flight delayed! Ended up taking off an hour late...)

Route: Pudong Bangkok - KLIA

Always love the sound of "To all Malaysians ... Selamat pulang!"

Simple meal ... was surprised how spicy the chicken was!

ps - Tip for MAS! Heat the bread rolls, LAH ... :-)

Pudong Shanghai International Airport

Time to say goodbye to Shanghai ...


I rather like this shot!


The Beijing Olympic 2008 mascots ...


Goodbye Haobei ...