So Shanghai is big and busy.

I mean really big and really busy.

After I got in to my hotel last night I hopped in a taxi with Garrett (co-worker from Redmond) and Jeff (our co-worker from Shanghai).  He took us out to a local place to eat.

The taxi rides around here are great, I'm reminded of Istanbul and Athens.  Is it only in America where people pay attention to the rules of the road?  I mean the traffic flows like a river and each car is merely an H2O molecule going downstream.  Chaotic...amorphous...fluid.  And being in the middle of it is a strangely detached sort of experience.

Here are some pics from the ride. [camera phone pics]

There are so many apartment buildings.  Although they aren't apartment buildings exactly, everyone "owns" a flat for a period of time (Jeff has one for 70 years).

Miles of them.

Here's the road where the restaurant we at dinner is located.

Jeff.

Garrett and I.  I'm the good-looking, smart one in the glasses.

Dinner was awesome!  Kind of a dip and cook your own.  I am obsessing about going back to the same small little hole in the wall restaurant for my entire stay.

Crawdads.

Dip and cook yourself.  mmmm mmmm good.