Sunday

Day 3 - Sunday
We went to place called Taikang Road (it's a long winding alley), a bit off the beaten path and full of flavor.

We had a great breakfast at Kommune. I ordered the "double" coffee, expecting just a larger version of the single, omg it was 4 times bigger!! The food was great and very reasonable.

After breakfast we walked around the alley (many restaurants and boutique shops). It really was a fun little place and we spent a couple of hours there. Many of the pictures on this post are from Taikang Road.

We set out for the pearl market after (the breakfast was enough to be keep us going all day). I have come to realize that most of these markets are not what I had invisioned (an outdoor location with stall after stall) but instead a building with store after store. It was a bit out of the way but a fun visit. The first and third floors were more the same type of products we saw the other day. The second floor on the other hand was all jewelry, pearls, beads, jade etc. In most cases, here too you had to bargain to get the right price. I found some vendors to be a pleasure to shop with and the prices incredibly reasonable that it wasn't worth the headache of haggling.

We stopped by the cyber mart on the way back home - yet another market, here exclusively for electronic products - very much buyer beware!! My sister picked up some speakers after a great deal of hangling (down 50%)

We watch a movie (Juno) and then headed out for dinner with my sisters friends.