Noryangjin Fish Market

with Lev, here from Austria for a week

dinner

after you buy the fish, you take it to a chaotic and boozy restaurant like this one, where it is prepared and served to you

gift from the fish seller

sashimi Korean style, with leaves for wrapping and red pepper sauce

Lev beholds soup made from the remains of the fish

Afterwards, bar exploration in Hapjeong: first stop, Pub Tribe

we sat in the Native American corner

can't be sure, but I think this bar was called Oldies but Goodies

Korean Mod band

Shanghai streets

Marc had a game developers' conference in Shanghai. We went for the weekend -- it was a 90-minute flight, like going from Boston to D.C.

Pudong

subway / amusement park ride across the harbor to Pudong

tallest building in Shanghai

this 1960s soviet-style science fiction structure is called The Pearl of the Orient

view of the Bund from across the harbor

Dancing in the park

music provided by itinerant DJs with sound systems on carts

badminton under the watchful gaze of Marx and Engels

scattered throughout: clusters of middle-aged men playing cards

Moller House

Hunan and Yunnan

a restaurant called Lost Heaven, specializing in cuisines of ethnic minorities in the Yunnan region

Hunan restaurant

Shanghai Museum

Jade

death mask

lovely scarabs to be placed on the tongues of the dead

Furniture

Money

dark times for China