Shopping, drinks and midnight dinner in Guangzhou

29 April

Day 155: Guangzhou

We woke up at around 1 pm, so before everybody got ready, it was already 3pm. It was raining the whole day, so apparently it was the best time to go for shopping :D

We had lunch in the same place as yesterday:

Aand then, all of us (me, Juli, Luciano, Serafin, Ana and Pedro) went to one of the wholesale shopping area in Guangzhou, close to the Main Train station. Gisele wrote me on a piece of paper the name of the area in Chinese, so using this paper we asked people how to get there and found some shopping malls, close to each other.

The shopping malls area was huge and full of the imitation clothes. You could find here all kind of Levis t-shirts, Ralph Laurent, Boss, Paul Smith shirts, Versace, Gucci, whatever you can imagine brand and the prices are totally negotiable and completely different.

We wondered around but did not buy anything, have decided to do it tomorrow, when the weather is better and we have more time (since the malls started to close at 6 pm).

We went back home, Gisele came from work and told us that she knows one club, where today we can have free drinks from 10 to 11 pm. The easiest choice ever – who says no to a free drink? :D The club was having a Latin music night and it seems that Gisele knew all personnel of the place :-D We had a couple caipirinhas, cuba libes and margaritas and even went to dance a bit.

The star of the evening was Serafin, who fist tried to give a tip to a waiter, and did it so secretly, that it seemed to be in some communist country old time ago when you were not allowed to give any tips to anybody haha He just took the money, squeezed in his had and then took the waiter hand and squeezed the money in his – I can’t describe it properly, but we were laughing about it for the next 3 hours at least :-D

The other moment happened on the dance floor. When Sera has decided to demonstrate all his “salsa dancing skills” and while dancing with Gisele, he bent and lost his glasses on the floor. Gisele was dancing salsa, looking somewhere up and feeling like a star, when Sera told her:”Stop! Don’t move! I need to find my glasses” – this is was how Gisele’s dream dancing was interrupted hahaha

Ok, anyway, the free happy hour was finished and we were feeling “happy” enough to stop drinking and go eat something:-D Close to the club, there was a 5 floor 24 hours open seafood barbeque restaurant.

The restaurant was incredible: it had a big area with small pools filled with water and alive seafood and fish swimming in the pools. You just need to pick up the one you like and way you want it to be cooked and it will be served on your table within couple of minutes.

Incredibly, at midnight, there were plenty of people in the restaurant. Gisele told us that in the morning, after club is closed, there are many people eating here at 6 am in the morning after dancing the whole night :-D

We had a great meal, beers and finally asked Serafin to give some tips to the girl serving us, to enjoy again the beautiful moment of Serafin’s tipping tactics haha

Shrimps, clamps, two kinds of different fish, some more seafood, beers and in the end some beef with mushrooms for the boys – the whole dinner was 85 Yuan (around 8,5 euro/each).

Finally we went home, not without buying some beers on the way :-D