Pixs from inside the Expo grounds
| 10 July 2010
Here are some updated random shots from inside the Expo grounds. The USA Pavilion is the 3rd busiest pavilion out of 197 participating countries.
The average wait time to enter the show (7 minutes long, then right into the retail store) is 4 hours. Now, the last time I remember standing in any line for that long was to buy U2 tickets back during the Achtung Baby tour… remember those days before the internet!
....I doubt anyone holds your place in line if you need that emergency bathroom break, careful if you're coming to the US Pavilion!
More shots to come...
Cooking for Miss USA -Rima Fakih
| 08 July 2010
What a rough first week! I have met several celebrities but the one that happen to stick out most to me (wonder why…) was the current Miss USA, Rima Fakih. Rima was great to meet, she had lunch at the Pavilion, then was all about taking a few photos- that is the nice part about being the chef…I am sure everyone wants to know what she had to eat… she sent a special request in advance for a cobb salad with sautéed shrimp…
thanks, Donald- I owe you one! Can you send Miss Universe next please?
Old Shanghai (Part II)- "the restaurant experience"
| 06 July 2010
China has been great to me so far… We went to this restaurant in old Shanghai (post street snacking.. poor Lassie). It was beautiful… nobody in the joint spoke a lick of English-so we pretty much had the luck of faith! One of the chefs that was with me had on some Australian board shorts and sure enough a familiar dialect was heard. Someone jumped in after we had ordered about half the food- it was the voice of a Chinese guy saying that he studied in Kangaroo nation for 10 years- and how could he help us order….
Now we were really in business! We went from pointing at a few pictures, drawing a pigs face on the back of the servers guest check book (to let her know we wanted some pork), to just plain rolling the dice. Not even remembering what we had ordered up to this point we just let this new found friend finish out our order.
In the matter of 3 minutes the table starting filling up dumplings, pancakes, hot pots, noodles, soups, and stir fried goodness
I would mention the name of this delectable establishment but 95% of this area is only written in Chinese characters… so we’ll just go with “one block down from the fabric buildings”.
