BERLINERP

How much did we just pay for dinner?

Posted by BERLINERP | 22nd November 2009

Larry Winget really turned our heads around about money. We're still working on "Your Money or Your Life" by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin.

The point being, that we love our budget, and we don't go to Western restaurants very often. We found ourselves in Xintiandi, where the white folks go, where the tourists go.

It's lovely to look at, black brick buildings with red wood trim, Shikumen style.

Here's what Wiki had to say:

[i]Xintiandi (Chinese: 新天地; pinyin: xīn tiān dì) is a car-free shopping, eating and entertainment district of Shanghai, China. It is composed of an area of restored traditional shikumen ("stone gate") houses on narrow alleys, some adjoining houses which now serve as book stores, cafes and restaurants, and shopping malls. Most of the cafes and restaurants feature both indoor and outdoor seatings. Xintiandi has an active nightlife on weekdays as well as weekends, though romantic settings are more common than loud music and dance places. Xintiandi mea

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