德风花雨

Our lunch today was at another vegetarian restaurant. This one is called 德风花雨. The name of the restaurant is a Buddhist phrase. It is taken from the 《无量寿经》第二十品：德风徐徐，飘花如雨. Tried to check the web for an English name but didn't manage to find one.

This restaurant is on the 5th floor of the 百脑汇 building. 百脑汇 sells lots of PC and accessories and one would need to pass through this computer mall before able to get to 德风花雨.

Surrounding area is near the Yaohan and a busy part of the Pudong city. We tried various dishes. The 素小笼 was a bit disappointed because it did not have the juice that normally 小笼包 has. I took my Malay colleague here mainly to taste the 小笼包 since this is his very first time to China.

桂花糯米糖藕 (left)


碧绿万年青 & 功德圆满

榄菜四季豆 (left)

素鸭 (right)

木桶酸菜鱼 & 素小笼

6 of us spent RMB216 for all these dishes. It was quite a value for money. When we were going to leave there was a whole stack of Buddhist literature and books on display at the front entrance. All these books are for free and one can take any of them for souvenir.

This restaurant's address is:
德风花雨
浦东新区张杨路560-620号百脑汇5楼(近南泉北路)

New Age Veggie 新素代(正大店)

Today, thanks to my fellow colleagues from Penang visiting me - I have got the opportunity to try out vegetarian food in Shanghai. The restaurant we went for dinner is situated at the 5th floor of the Super Brand Mall. It is called New Age Veggie 新素代(正大店). There are 2 branches of New Age Veggie, one is in Puxi and this one is in LuJiaZui, Pudong.

Food was nice, especially the 外婆红烧肉. They really made it looks like the real thing. The food in this restaurant contains no egg ingredient.

外婆红烧肉(left) yummy!

鲍鱼卤味拼盘 (right)

干锅QQ面 (left)

三色肥牛卷 & 干烧石斑鱼

One good thing is that this restaurant accepts foreign credit card. Four of us spent RMB446 for all these dishes.

You can find this restaurant at:
新素代(正大店) NEW AGE VEGGIE
Unit 20A/B Super Brand Mall, 5/F, 168 Lujiazui Xi Lu, Pudong
上海浦东陆家嘴西路168号正大广场5楼20A/B
Website: http://www.shanghaiveggie.com/home.html

Outside Shanghai Science & Technology Museum 上海科技馆

Today, after we had shopped at the underground Xin Xiang Yang shopping shops, we went up to the outside of Shanghai Science & Technology Museum. Normally Ethan and Ai Yoong are the one who come to this museum often. Mainly because they have one year membership to this museum.

For me this is the first time I have came to this part of the museum surrounding outside. At the back of the museum there is one big structure from ancient time, the Armillary Sphere.

The Armillary Sphere

Introduction plate to this structure

This sphere is an outdoor instrument that is used by ancient Chinese scientist. It is a tool to make the orientation of the horizon, equator and ecliptic coordinate of celestial bodies such as the stars, the sun, the moon and planets and serves as a chronometer to tell years, solar terms days and hours.

Surrounding the Armillary Sphere is the grand Science & Technology Museum building. The building has a main sphere shape portion which serves as the main hall. There are 2 wings at the right and left side of the sphere.

Science & Technology Museum building

The Armillary Sphere is made of steel and richly adorned with carvings of dragon, horse. There are 4 big dragons that form symmetrically holding up a sphere shape ball.

When we visited this site, it was going to rain. The sky was dark and there was wind. Later it rained quite heavily for a period of time. The photo below was captured just before it rained. The Armillary Sphere against dark gloomy sky.