Spent a few days in Dalian a few weeks back looking for business opportunities and also visiting an old friend. Dalian is about a 2 hour flight north of Shanghai, and I was excited to be visiting a new city.

I was told by my friend that I should be prepared to eat. So prepare I did.

What he didn’t tell me was that I should be prepared to drink too. We met up with friends at a place called “Crabber House” for some very delicious sea food dishes amongst other main dishes. Didn’t have the chance to try everything as I was doing bottoms up with each person around the table. Full with Tsingtao beer, the most I could do was take photos of all the dishes as references for next time.

Thousand year old egg wrapped in pork (i think).

The fish was still alive and twitching from time to time. I didn’t mind, it was good.

Lunch the next day was more seafood at a local joint.

Later that night we went to Dalian’s yearly beer festival for even more food and drinks.

Much like the Shanghai expo there are pavilions, big tents in this case, representing a certain brand of beer. We went into the Budweiser one as it seemed people were having the most fun in there.

A glance into the crowd as they eat, drank, and enjoyed on stage performances.

Bottoms up!

After Phuket, flew back to Bangkok for my last day in Thailand.  Work kept me really busy but was able to make it out to Siam Paragon for lunch and buying a few snacks back to the hotel room to munch on.

My friend’s favorite dish when eating at Siam Paragon.

My dish.

Never seen so many different types of donuts.

Couldn’t resist.

Yummy BBQ pork.

Bought this for the first time from Hokkaido Milk.

Contained a small bucket of bread pieces and green tea milk dipping pudding.

Very addicting after the first piece.

Other donuts that I bought.  Didn’t end up finishing them all though.

Spring rolls to cap it all off.  My stay was stressful with work constantly on my mind, but took out all the frustration on all this food.

Still in the process of filtering all the photos taken, so ill be slowly churning out posts when I can.  My trip started from an early morning departure at Shanghai Pudong Airport. Here overlooking the terminal from the Cathay lounge.

Most of these photos are in black and white because I was playing around with the camera settings.  Bare with me.

Touching down in Hong Kong for an hour, it was time to check-in again.

Finally arriving at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Zooming in on this man as I wait in a long line for a taxi.

The driver taking us to the Somerset for our one night stay.

After checking in, there was just enough time for a meal in China town.  Funny that I come all the way to Bangkok to eat more Chinese food.

It was good though, a different style of Chinese food is what I’d call it.  Couldn’t get enough of that crab fried rice and shark fin soup.  Next up on the itinerary, Phuket!

So everyone knows Shanghai is known for their 小龍包 (xiao long bao). I got recommended to Jia Jia Tang Bao for their great quality and price.

This place is quite popular so expect to wait in line for a bit. Once you’re in put in your order and grab a seat. Waiting for my food I went to witness the making of xiao long bao.

Then it comes out a little something like this. There’s a few different kinds you can choose from, and this one here was crab. It was the only kind they had left as the popular ones were sold out already. They were well worth the wait.