Hai Di Lao
This restaurant is legendary in Shanghai, for several reasons in addition to the excellent food quality. Very good hotpot, with a great selection of sauces and condiments that you can get yourself and make your own concoctions.
What's great about these restaurants is the service. When we sat down, they put any mobile phones we placed on the table into plastic bags. Those of us wearing eyeglasses were given glass wipes. When I placed my jacked on the back of my chair, they placed a satin cover over it.
I've been told that the owner who started this chain has gone out of the way to provide this over the top service. Even if you wait for a table, you are given drinks, game to play with, or even do your nails and other entertainment.
Always fun, always good, and reasonably priced.
1. The staff are extremely cheerful, and helpful, nothing is too much for them.
2. Although the restaurant is usually full, people enjoy the pleasures of the waiting area, snacks are provided to those waiting, also various games are played, ladies are offerred a free manicure. In our group several ladies paused thier meal and returned to the waiting area for a manicure and to have thier nails painted.
3. The ambiance is amazing, really a lively warm welcoming atmosphere where everyone feels at home.
4. Prices are extremely reasonable.
5. Adequate car parking, free of charge for up to two hours, we always overstay.
6. Noodles are hand made at the table, this is in fact a form of entertainment.
7. Unlike most hotpot restaurants, the restaurant has an English menu card. I was given a copy to take home.
We consider Hai di Lao as much more that a place to eat, It is also an attraction!
Rating: 5/5
Chinese Paper Cutting Museum
Paper-cutting Museum is near the East Gate Street（东关街） A variety of arts and crafts masterpieces are being displayed inside the museum , everyone's hands were cutting pattern and have its own characteristics, but they are interesting and very detailed, pretty pretty!! We got to try out the paper cutting and we realised that it was really hard to cut nicely and perfectly as the shapes were so small and detailed. Hence, it was easy for us to cut wrongly. After the cutting, they told us that we are allowed to bring the 3badao scissors home and the rest of the paper cutting. Although there are very few people or tourists there,it was still very exciting and we learnt many things.
They also have a souvenir shop where they sell many pretty stuffs like the Chinese paper fan with many different types of pattern. They also sell bookmarks, books, paper cutting in a frame and many other things.
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