Shanghai 11 June - 19 June 2009

This was our 2nd trip to Shanghai together and it felt different from the 1st. It was the period when the H1N1 was on the rise, so the health authority in Shanghai were pretty stringent on the health checks on the arriving passengers into China. We were told to stay on board till the health officers, clad in full clean suit and thermometers, came on to check each individual passenger and gave the nod for all of us to leave. Took us almost an additional hour to clear and be out of the customs.

Then the sneezes came and came and came and came. The moment I got to the chinese restaurant, my cheeks were flushing. It got worst at night. I was swaying from side to side, my head weighed a ton, I was flushing red and heating up. And so, for the rest of the 7 out of 9 days we were there, I was down with flu and had missed the appetite for all the good food I was supposed to be there for. Didn't miss out on the mutton sticks though. They rock all the time!