today was my second time on ginger café, a little cozy place tucked away on the end of a little tunnel on fuxing road.
the drinks in this place are quite something. i had a lemongrass, orange and mint tea which was delicious, and i’ve had their ginger and honey tea before – strong, but oh so good!
the menu has a wide range of dishes and a quite a few are vegetarian. my little portion of spinach and pumpkin quiche looked a bit disappointing though, but p.’s spicy chouriço pasta was well served. both tasted good.
overall, i feel this is more the kind of place that you go for mid-afternoon drinks, or to read a book while sipping on a latte. the bright walls and the decoration have a sort of “asian treasure-chest” ambience to it, quite inviting for a nice chat on a rainy sunday…
info:
Ginger
299 Fuxing Xi Lu, No. 1
near Huashan Lu
(there’s free wi-fi, but we didn’t get the chance to take our laptops out – it was quite crowded).
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If this restaurant guide in Shanghai your way to seducing me into going to China, let me warn you little lady… It’s working! :) I loved the dinner, but this one looks really nice too, the teas look like they’re delicious. Keep these posts coming, I love them! :)
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I thought the drinks here, especially the mint-ginger-yougurt smoothie, is pathetically disgusting and insincere. Probably it had only a dash of yougurt and the rest is just crushed ice so the taste is bland and watery.
And, … service … non-existent.
Another one of those joints in town where service only applies to foreign looking crowd. Waiters are like flies that only bother to follow foreigners around.
Plainly an unworthy place except if you are foreign and who thinks the drinks have a zen-like quality.
By the way, I’m talking about the Fuxing store here.
To the Singaporean owner:
I doubt such quality would be acceptable back home.