Baoluo

After a day of reading gazetteers regarding Changshu County, I went with Gina & Meimei to Baoluo Restaurant (which specializes in Shanghainese food). I was disappointed. We had been there before and the food was excellent, but we decided to try new things, and most weren't good. About the best thing we ordered was laziji which isn't even Shanghainese. Meimei liked the chilis in the laziji:





Here's a good shot of Gina eating an orange:



After dinner, we tried going to this bar/club called "Windows Too". It's supposed to attract the young crowd and have 10 kuai drinks; Meimei is young and we thought we'd take her. But when we got there, we discovered there was a 50 kuai cover (which defeats the point of cheap drinks) AND the crowd was very young and very non-Chinese and generally very scary.