South Korea/China: Nanjing Museum, Yangtze River, etc.
Nanjing Museum, Confucian shrine, the People's bridge across the Yangtze River, wandering Hunan Lu (Hunan Street).
Nanjing's versionfo xiaolongbao: yyyyyuuuuuuummmmmm!!! Total cost for the 8 people we had, 9 baskets of xiaolongbao, a few bowls of won tons, and a few bowls of noodles, duck blood, etc: RMB60. Maybe less. And we ate a lot. Well under US$10. Mmmmm.
Wandered over to the Nanjing Museum afterwards, then back to a food court for lunch. The collection was very good at the Nanjing Museum-- especially for a "city" museum. By the time we'd get to Shanghai a few days later, the Shanghai Museum actually wouldn't show very much in the way of new things.
Maybe it's a sign I've been to China too many times, when all the museums start to repeat themselves?
A shrine to Confucius was after lunch, then we lost something in translation when we tried to head to the People's Bridge on the Yangtze River. We didn't know how to get to the museum at the base of the bridge, and instead got dropped off on the causeway, which was so jammed with traffic that it made 405 look smooth-flowing. It was a long walk on a sidewalk we had to share with scooters and bicycles (eeek!) in extremely smoggy air for a view that wasn't all that great. Oops.
We lucked out and got a taxi back to central Nanjing at rush hour and had dinner at a tourist guidebook recommended restaurant on Hunan Lu that didn't have any English on the menu. How that works for non-Chinese-speaking tourists, I'm not sure... it was a packed shopping and dining area for two blocks that most tourists could have survived, although I'm not sure how they would order anything at most of the restaurants! Heck I'm not sure how I would have survived without Grace and Sophia's ability to understand Chinese!
Stopped by a tea shop and wandered most of Hunan Lu, had dessert, then picked up both mango and regular dan tat for the wedding party on the way back.
