Tang Dynasty Restaurant

At the risk of being called a foodie, I'll have an entire entry on the restaurant we found tonight, Tang Dynasty Restaurant. The restaurant featured a picture menu with English descriptions (very useful when the only communication method is pointing at what you want!)

The restaurant is huge
Unfortunately, they either didn't have a non smoking section or couldn't understand what we were asking for... We took a long time to look at the menu (all 20 or so pages) before deciding on what to order.

The first dish we picked was a seafood medley, served in a bird's nest
Then the celery with onions and walnuts
Followed by traditional Shanghai noodles
And finally this delicious pork dish, served skin and all. Yummy!
At the end they brought us some water melons with special wooden forks
This was for me the best meal since we arrived here in Shanghai. Alex thought the noodles were a bit under-seasoned and he's not a big fan of celery either so he wasn't quite as impressed as I was. All of this for under $30, I still can't believe how affordable dining out is!