Dinning at the Bund18 (外滩18号)

August 26th, 2005 Filed under English entries, Work

@ 2005-08-26 10:15

Yesterday, I’s lucky to have a chance dinning at the Bund18. I have never expected to dinning at such a luxry venue even when I was almost starved. I don’t have much requirment on food or a dinning venue, as long as I can get myself full, it’s OK. Always I was thought to be behind the times and don’t have a taste of 小资. But this time, I am a little elated ’cause may be I could make those 小资 admire me and fullfill my vanity.The Bund18 is a fashion center of repute. The name “Bund18″ or “外滩18号” in Chinese comes from the adress of the building which is No. 18 East Middle Zhongshan No.1 Rd., and the road’s another name is The Bund. In it, there are dozens of luxry brands with names totally strange to me, but maybe my girlfriend have mentioned them sometime before. Before I went to the Bund18, I just thought its building only for the several luxry brands, but now I know the 5th to 7th floor are also places to eat something.

The Tan Wanglou (滩望楼) is at the 5th floor and we went to there have our dinner. In fact, this dinner is treated by our client, Lucifer. He is now promoting a program named Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System or OOPS and we are their PR agent. We five at the table included two of my collegue, Lucifer, Lao Xu and me. This is a famous Yue Cai restaurant serving all kinds of dishes of Guangdong taste. We arrive at there at around half past seven and went straight to the 5th floor. Because all the table at the window where the scene of The Bund and the Huangpu river is available is booked and reserved, we have to take a table at one corner of the dinning hall. Lucifer ordered us about 7 or 8 dishes and some soup and drink. I don’t know what exactly the name and the price, what I know is the food amount is very little but expensive. I drunk may be a tin of the most expensive Coca-cola, with 36rmb I think I can buy a bunch of Coca-cola. I ordered myself two of them. One thing interested me much is that Lucifer didn’t touch any meat of the dishes no matter beef of pork, he only pick some vegetable and fruit to feed himself. In seeing of this I thought that he may be a vegetarian and asked him “When do you become a vegeterian?”. He laughed and explained he was not a vegeterian, he didn’t eat meat because of one of his special habbit: whenever there are project undergoing, he would not allow himself to eat any meat. He explained this can alarm him that there’s work waittinbg him to finish and not time to enjoy. Wow, really interesting, right?

We talked a lot at the dinner and many topics are around the restaurant, differences between Taiwai and mainland, and the food. When check-out the dinner cost Lucifer 1,200 RMB, though very expensive for me, much below than I estimated : ). I don’t think the food here is delicious, in fact, there cooking are too common capared with their price. Many people come to here maybe not for decilicious of to become a belly-god, but for a kind of vainity just like what I gained from here.

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