Oriental Pearl Tower (Shanghai TV-tower)

I just found this photo while reorganizing my photoalbums, quite nice view from the Cloud Nice Bar on the 87th floor in the Jinmao Tower (420m high).

Norway, or I should say Norwegians (in China)

Last week I went to Hangzhou to see my friends Steen & Torun. We haven't met since 2007 so it was of course great fun. Apart from some tourist stuff, 西湖 anyone? we also went to see a tea producer for a meeting. Lots of tea, nice tea, green tea...
Some local food like "beggars chicken", shrimps cooked in tea and "dong po rou" (VERY FATTY meat in sauce) ended a long but fun day.
There is some more photos on my photo site, the address to that one is to the right.

Just taster from the Shanghai F1...

Just 2 short videos shot with my Nikon P5000 to give you an idea how it looks from the grandstands. We were lucky enough (ehem...) to get into some very good seats with a perfect view of the fastest part of the track leading into the slowest corner there is. You also get an idea how wet it was...

It doesn't get much more Chinese than this, does it?

Birthday

Yeah, I got older the other day...

We went to a new Japanese restaurant where I finally found one speciality I never had before, raw horse meat. It was VERY tender and full of flavour, it was eaten with radish that gave it a nice blend of flavours.

You can also see some of the sashimi and the barbecued salmon head below.

Cheese and blueberry icecream (WTF?)

The worst thing with this isn't that someone actually invented the flavour, it's that it was a really good one...

Got to love this...

Probably more fun for those of you who has been to China and battled the Chinese love for MSG though...