Yu Yuan Garden

Two Saturdays ago, we played tourists again and visited Yu Yuan Garden - the most famous garden located in the heart of Shanghai Old City. It is a classical garden built during the Ming Dynasty in 1577. One of the unique charms of this place can be seen in its ancient building designs with pagoda-like roofs.

We did not go into the special garden specifically (will leave that for our next trip here) but we just walked around the bazaars surrounding the garden. The place was super crowded and teeming with tourists!

This mini town consists of only Chinese traditional buildings like this...

Just outside one of the many bazaars selling all kinds of stuff that attract tourists, from handicrafts to food

The massive Saturday crowd

Local sweets and goodies

Trinkets and small souvenirs

China's most loveable mascot

We walked on the "nine-bend" zigzag bridge. Saw some fish and tortoises in the shallow pond below

Scenery as seen from the bridge...

When east meets west... It is not surprising to see Starbucks or Haagen-Dazs sitting amidst this very traditional Chinese garden :)

We had a light snack of stinky tofu, egg tarts and herbal jelly (gui lin gao)

I also had a "small" cotton candy... (I wanted it very badly and mummy requested the seller to make a small one for me. She made this for me and said "nah, a small one for you..." @_@)

Cheeky face :p