I did my presentation this morning and it went pretty well. I had a few dozen people in the room. I always enjoy showing people clips from usability tests we've done too. But I forgot to get somebody to take pictures of me!
Anyway, prep and presenting took up the first half of the day. After that I went to lunch with the Shanghai designers, which was nice. We ate food that is from a region near Shanghai. Much of it was quite spicy, but good. And there was a famous dish, which I'm calling the chicken pot. It was very tasty. Irene got the chicken head and Sam got the foot. They also had tasty tofu. I have had so many wondeful tofu dishes since I've been here!
I also learned at lunch that Prison Break is a very popular show here. How odd. After lunch I did some work and managed to get my development team together for a picture, which I forgot to do last night. Great group of guys, these are!
I came back to the hotel near the end of the work day and just chilled out for a bit. Qiong and I were supposed to go shopping, but she ended up doing work stuff, so Sam, the office tour guide (even though he's actually from Hong Kong), took me out to dinner and then for walks around. We went for Hong Kong style food, which I enjoyed very much. I really loved the pineapple roll, the noodles, and the BBQ dishes. I also tried some of what Sam called "spoiled egg". Not sure how it's spoiled, but it's definitely black. Surprisingly, it wasn't bad at all.
The hotel and office are in Pudong, which is the more newly built tech-heavy, skyscraper-heavy side. On the other side of the river is older Shanghai, including The Bund (the shiny happy shopping street), the old French buildings, and cool views of Pudong from across the river. So we just wandered and I took lots of photos of things along the way. But night pictures are hard with my camera so many are fuzzy.
Sam assures me that we'll be able to see some of the older streets and more Chinese areas tomorrow.
I'm still having fun, but I'm getting pretty tired of trying to do everything. I look forward to getting home, hugging my dogs, and sleeping in my own bed...
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