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It was nice to take a break from all the Chinese food and have some Italian! The location was so nice – it was by the river and then on the other side is the cityscape.  There are other restaurants on this street but this was recommended to us by Tito Robbie and Tita Helen

The kitchen is open without any glass walls

They had the business lunch set and I was the only one who had it and I thought the price was reasonable considering everything it came with compared to the ala carte wherein one dish was almost equivalent to the whole business meal.

I got the Rosmarino.  You have to choose one from the selection.  I cannot finish really the whole meal, it’s a good thing everyone helps 🙂

Everyone else ordered ala carte….

Wood fired oven pizza

This was a foie Gras antipasto!  YUMMY!!! Scallops on the other side of the plate

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Another breakfast buffet 🙂  Heart2Heart’s favorite is the cereal, yogurt and oatmeal station 

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We enjoyed our dinner at Wuampoa Club which was recommended by Tito Robbie and Tita Helen at 3 on the Bund.  

My dream is to have one of their degustation meals.  I love small portions and having a little of everything at a reasonable pace so you can enjoy the ambience, the conversation, the company and the food of course.

We ordered ala carte.  I noticed in China, they don’t have portion sizes in the menu and the dishes come in small portions.  Not like in the Philippines where they have sizes that can feed a whole table.  

This trip, I made sure i ordered something that we do not always order- I made it a point to order a different dish everytime we ate out rather than having always the usual Chinese dishes we order.  This was mine 🙂 

and I also chose this prawn dish.  I normally like ordering the prawn salad which has mayonnaise on it, this one was a wasabi  dressing which was a much better alternative. Miam Miam!

In the same building……

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As soon as we arrived in Shanghai, we had our lunch which was right across the hotel.  Of course my three boys were excited because it was their favorite Xiao Long Bao and they loved it!! We all loved it!

And after this, they came back everyday whether for breakfast, brunch, lunch or snack.  The family came back three times in the 4 days we were in Shanghai!  🙂  This restaurant is found in other countries in the world like Hong Kong, Japan, USA and others.  We heard it is coming to the Philippines soon!  

You need your black vinegar for the Xiao Long Bao ( Soup dumplings ) 

There are many things in the menu but this is the main reason and the main thing we order in the restaurant 

Highly recommended kind since it has CRAB!  

Look at that!!!!  We have tried many Xiao long baos and the good ones and the one made well are the ones that can retain the soup inside.   YUMMY!!!

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An interesting dumpling that has siomai combined in it 

I do not know if they have this all the time but this is our first time to try BLACK TRUFFLES Xiao Long Bao!!!! WOW!!!!!!! YUMMY!!!!!!!  

Chefs making the soup dumplings all day long  

website:  Din Tai Fung

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So when in Xian, maybe best to stick to the restaurants in the hotel ( Renmin Square Hotels ) 🙂  Unless you have other recommendations from friends.  We enjoyed our meals here  

The kids love the dimsum, they can eat many siomai and dumplings 🙂 

They had Beijing duck instead of Peking duck which is not the crispy type

This was something new to see, they had a warmer for the wrapped duck  

They use a different wrapper  

Second way of the duck and they only served the breast part, it was really good 

And they make an effort for presentation which is not always at Chinese restaurants, so Heart2Heart likes it 🙂

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We were not able to get any restaurant recommendations for Xian…so we just asked the concierge and the tour guide where to go.  The Chinese food was okay but not spectacular, maybe also because we did not know what to order also.  

This restaurant was near the hotel.  They had a wide variety to choose from but we stuck to the basic Chinese food we normally order like Roast duck, sweet and sour pork, siomai

We did not know what this was, but it looked interesting so i took photos 🙂 

This was a restaurant near the Terra-cotta warriors.  It seemed like all the tourists and tour groups were going here.  It was a big place!  But we did not really like the food and it took some time for the food to come out.  We also had a hard time communicating with the servers.  I think that the tour groups that come here reserve in advance and have a set meal whereas we just walked in and tried to order from the menu 

I actually liked this – chinese french fries 🙂  

This was a chicken dish which I also liked 

 Oh my gosh!!!!! KFC!!!! by the Terracotta soldiers! Our savior! 🙂  

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When travelling, this is one of Heart2Heart’s favorites.  Just like a bath tub, we can only have breakfast buffets and tub baths when staying in hotels. Wherelse can you wake up to a breakfast buffet?:-)   We came already late so the buffet was almost closed, which explains why it’s a bit messy already and little food left in containers.  It’s a good thing I was able to take photos still and we were able to eat a bit.  It’s not included in the room, only kids eat for free.  But they did not charge us anyway, maybe because we came so late already.

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