A day at Baoli, Foshan

Hello Gentle readers, today we went to Foshan, specifically the Poly shopping centre in Baoli district.
The busses at the weekend are free so we trooped down and climbed aboard the Citic Lake shuttle bus.
The bus driver politely told us that we had got on the right bus and off we travelled. It soon became clear to all 3 of us that this particular bus driver had learned to drive with Michael Schumacher.

Foshan city

Our driver wished to be in F1

He was driving incredibly quickly and was sweeving like a slalom skier around the massive trucks, cars and the countless motor scooters that seem to dominate roads in China.

When the bus stopped and most people jumped out so did we. It was then we discovered that we had got out a little early and were not at Poly but at Ikea. Yes folks the Swedish invasion has even reached Southern China.

After a 20 or so minute walk we reached Poly and quickly found a  cafe to get out of the sun. Two minutes after arriving the coffee shops power went off and we had to wait for our drinks in the dark. They had nice cushions though.

Robert enjoys the soft furnishing.

 After our coffee and juice we entered the wonderfully air conditioned and highly polished shopping mall.
It was very European in style but with lots of asian touches such as these in the photos below.

For lunch we looked at a few diffeeent places. There were the usual McDonalds and Starbucks mixed with more traditional places serving stuff  like this.....

Yummy!

I know...tempting as marinated pig bones or soup with birds in sounded we decided to try KFC where we all had chicken burgers and Lena had the non-alcoholic Mojito drink.

We decided to go to the supermarket for a few things and we found Aeon, the supermarket in question to be very good. It was a little more expensive than our local but the choice was better and they even had some products that we had found very hard to find.

We left about 6.20 and it had started to rain and the wind had started to quicken. A typhoon was fast approaching. I will post later about that and some of the more unusual items we bought on our shoping trip.

#baoli #china #aeon #KFC #IKEA #polymall