First time flying a Chinese airline, their air marshalls are in uniform and walking the aisle.

China Eastern's inflight magazine is 216 pages

Happy to know that #mastadon works behind the #greatfirewall

Need more testing but it seems that international roaming data bypass the #greatfirewall

I can't connect to Telegram from airport WiFi but no issues when I switch to roaming mobile data

It's 5°C in Hangzhou and China Eastern left one of my bags in Guangzhou and it will be delivered to my hotel when their later flight lands.

I'm going to freeze my nuts off when I make my way from the Metro station to the hotel... My jacket is in the bag that got left behind... Brrrrrr......

Shanghai South Bund Fabric Market, 2 suits with 2 shirts for ¥2750. Local China fabric, similar quality when compared to what I picked in Krung Thep, but it is much cheaper.

Seriously, for a set in SG, fly to Shanghai for a quick holiday and get one made. It's not that I don't want to support local, I do when it makes sense, but not at this difference in price.

Trust Bank is my card of choice for overseas use, withdrew ¥4500 for S$824.67

While most cards today offer no FX fees, and multi currency wallets requires you to pre-purchase limited foreign currency they offer for "better rates" and you either leave money in there or get hit when u buy back SGD, Trust card transacts live with no markups.

An exception is Thailand's 200฿ foreign bank cards withdrawal fee.

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I'll be back at this "wet market" that is right under a huge block of flats. It's across the street from the Shanghai South Bund Soft Spinning market.

Fruits in China are held in great regard like in Japan and I've seen some really stunning fruits.

That wet market really blew my mind and I used to eat sugar cane in the same way. Picked up a basket of 馬蹄 for ¥20 to munch on while walking around.

I have to travel more, so I can permanently update a new routine; Wear my teeth after brushing my teeth in the morning.

Food is practically tasteless when you are unable to properly chew your food.

Bonus discovery, the Libby app works behind the GFW, just borrowed this audiobook that came off hold, a little ironic that I'm in china.

Can't get the #china only drops, the largest they stock is size 10... #FML with my clown feet

The mids are ladies only so NOT FAIR!!! I demand shoe equality.

There is no #GOAT debate, I don't ever see the #flopking ever having a corner for him.

This is at the Nike store by #西湖

A few interesting books I saw today at Sisyphe Bookstore in the 2nd Lego mall I visited

#Sapiens by #YuvalNoahHarari is a good read.

There is one thing modern #china is like old #malaysia. I smell it in mall restrooms, metro restrooms and some independent shops. There are even speakers in restroom on loop for no smoking.

Even the wedding that I attended had a table of smokers.

24 individual dish wedding banquet.

Games, lucky draw and gifts for guests.

Smokes and drinks for every table.

I never thought I would ever use the word delicate to describe a pot of mutton soup but that is because I have never had baby goat from inner Mongolia.

The lamb and radish dumplings were delicious as well, wok hei in the french beans. ¥59 for mutton soup, ¥39 for french beans, ¥39 for dumplings.

Females and young meat taste the best; suckling pig, veal, spring chicken, etc...

Went to a different #西貝 branch because they were carving the roast duck at the door.

Both were at the Lego store malls I visited.

72 hr dry aged duck, ¥88 for half, ¥36 for the veggie.

Simply amazing value and go early, there are limited ducks per day and can be up to 1hr wait time.

I have updated my target for visiting #Lego store in china, only the flagship store, because there are too many regular stores to visit and they are not as special as other regular stores in other countries.

There are even 2 #Lego stores in the mall where the flagship store is. The third was a chance encounter when I went to the CBD area to get a view of the river.

#Lego passport is a GWP of ¥99, the staff was very helpful and told me to register on WeChat to get the Insider gift, a notebook with stickers.

There are no special builds to see in their regular stores unfortunately.

I want to import the SU7 and YU7 to Malaysia, it's cheaper than my masters degree 😂

Saw a SU7 out in the wild by Hangzhou's CBD area while I was walking towards the river for a view. Brembo brakes for the upgraded package 😍

Huawei also have their own cars.

Some #singaporeans are well travelled but still so so dumb. The unmissable accent I heard while crossing a regular traffic light along Shanghai's People Square and he turn to his wife and said, "like Shibuya crossing"

NO! YOU FUCKING IDIOT, the key characteristics of Shibuya crossing is that it goes across diagonally. Dumb dumb dumb.

My first ever score on a drop that i didn't know about. First I found my size at the Nike store at People's Square while visiting the #Shanghai flagship #Lego store. I was self debating if I should get it while walking over to get the radio tower shot and there it was, my first ever #Jordan shop and the limited #馬年 drop

It was an instant purchase, ¥999 - 11% tax rebate.

Btw, People's Square makes Times Square look like a joke, which is what #america is today.

Dabao dinner at a #halal #清真 restaurant that also serves beer. These are the #muslims that I love whole heartily.

¥102 for grilled spiced lamb, beef, chicken hearts and kidneys, with some vegetables and a rather delicious beer.

Gambling booths are everywhere, Chinese people really love to gamble

And some random cool things I saw.

That's a VW concept car, I checked, not road legal.

This Aldi is much nicer than the ones I have been to.

First time trying stinky tofu in soup. It's good and great in cold weather. This shop was under the metro station and I saw locals eating.