Subway and squid

There are many things in china that just don't make sense... and here is a prime example from Subway today...

So the sub of the day was chicken teryaki today at Subway- and subs of the day are 15 rmb(2 usd). I wanted to make it into a salad - and if you change any sub into a salad, it's an extra 3 rmb. Alright - so I ordered my chicken teryaki salad, and went to pay, and they tried charging me 28 rmb.

No we explained to them - 15 plus 3 is 18. So after much arguing - it felt like 10 minutes of back and forth - them explaining that the deal for the sub was different than getting a salad - they couldn't give us a deal for a salad. We just wanted the same thing as the sub - just without the bread. No - they couldn't do it- the sub deal was a sub deal. Unlike the states where they'd be flexible, or give it to you 'your way', they said absolutely not.

Finally, Janai got them to the point of saying that they'd give us all the stuff on the bread for 15 rmb, but they couldn't give it to us in salad container for 18 rmb. As they were stuffing the toppings onto a piece of bread (that i didn't eat), there was some a leftover salad covered in dressing which they proceeded to re-distrubute back into the containers - olives, pickles, lettuce - saving every last piece. I couldn't believe my eyes! I asked for a fork and then ate my 'salad' off of the bread. I felt like leaving the bread on the table just to be spiteful...

Squid...

My mentor Janet and I went out to dinner this last week together like we do every Tuesday. On the way there we saw this rack of meat - complete with fish - neadless to say, it wasn't where we ate dinner.

We did a Korean restraunt where we ate in the dark for about 20 minutes becuase the electricity went out! Every one in the restraunt just kept on eating too. A friend mentioned that there are restraunts that actually are completely dark in order to heighten your sense of taste. Well, it definetly wasn't purposeful, but it was a delightful meal, complete with my new favorite seafood - squid! It's like crab - but a bit chewier - quite a fun feeling, especially the tenticles on your tongue! All in a day in Shanghai...