This weekend was both busy and fun. Last week it really hit me that I’m going back home soon, and I realized that time had slipped by and there is still so much I want to do before I go. Panpan and I drafted a list of places we wanted to go before we left, and now we’re slowing crossing them off one by one.
Friday night I made reservations at a delicious Thai place (originally named “Thai Gallery”). After enjoying pad thai and fried rice served in a pineapple, we headed down the street to The Spot. It was weird to be back in the neighborhood that I stayed in for my first couple of weeks in Shanghai. It feels like ages ago, but was only 6 weeks!
Me and recent grad I used to work with for REP!
On Saturday I went back to the fabric market one last time to pick up the last of the clothes I ordered, then took a long metro ride out to the outskirts of Shanghai to go to my boss’s house. She invited the whole HR department over to make dumplings. It was really strange to be back in a pseudo-suburban environment after two months in the big city! (I say pseudo-suburban because it was a gated community clearly going for the suburban feel, but it fell short. The houses were still pretty small, very close together, and completely lacking yard space. Compared to the city proper, though, they were quite sprawling, though.)
I really enjoyed the dumpling making— it was fun to be in a kitchen again! (Ours lacks cookware and smells funny, so we keep the door shut and avoid it at all costs.) My Chinese coworkers were very surprised that I could hold my own folding dumplings. We made them with a Chinese chive, egg, and meat filling, although I preferred the vegetarian ones that were only Chinese chives and eggs. We boiled them like wontons instead of lightly pan-frying them like potstickers. I have to say I actually think that the ones we’ve made at home are better! But… by the time we got to eat them it was way past lunchtime and we were all so hungry that they tasted delicious.
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