This
Sunday is a cold, rainy one, meaning it’s a good day to stay inside and sit in
front of the TV, watching baseball games and HBO. The contrast could not have
been greater with the previous Sunday, the day after we had returned from our
weeklong trip to Guìlín 桂林 and Yángshuò
阳朔. Last Sunday was a beautiful day, warm but
not hot, with clear blue skies. And for once, we timed things just right,
having reserved a table for brunch just prior to leaving on our vacation at one
of Shànghăi’s 上海 premier
restaurants, M on the Bund 米氏餐厅.
Amber in
front of M on the Bund…:
…and on the
Bund 外滩:
M on the Bund
was one of the first of the many upscale restaurants now populating the Bund.
The food is surprisingly unpretentious considering the setting – I started
things off with a mimosa, followed by a bowl of ribollita, an Italian bean
soup. The main course was called a “Weekend Fry-up” – steak, lamb, sausage,
bacon, a grilled tomato, sautéed onions, mashed potatoes and a fried egg. Dessert
was chocolate mousse and Turkish coffee. It wasn’t cheap for the three of us,
but it was certainly nice to get out and do something like this as a family.
The best
thing about M on the Bund wasn’t the food, as good as it was. It was the
outdoor 7th-floor terrace giving great views of the Bund, the Huángpŭ
River 黄浦江 and Pŭdōng 浦东:
Following
brunch, we took a short stroll to the start of the Bund, the 1916 McBain
Building, the first in a long line of beautiful waterfront buildings:
Turning
right, we took a different walk in time, going into the Shanghai Natural History
Museum 上海自然博物馆. The museum will
soon move into a modern building set to open sometime this year, but for now it
remains housed in the 1923 Shanghai Cotton Exchange Building. Inside, it was
still 1956:
Hopefully the
new digs will better showcase the museum’s allegedly large collection, but the
some of the dead things on display were pretty cool:
Shanghai...
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