Latin night

First an update – I chose trip D. I think the trade off between manageable travel and cool sights will be the best. And I am hopeful about the weather.

I just finished another great weekend that has given me a lot to write about. But it’s late so I will just write about Friday night now and will follow up with more over the next few days. But I will say that today was my highest risk travel day since escaping from the volcano last summer.

Friday was my friend Armando’s last night in Shanghai so we went to a “Brazilian” Churrascaria. But there was really nothing Brazilian about it. Everyone there was Chinese, and there were definitely no Brazilian chefs. There was a big salad bar, guys walking around with grilled food on swords, and there was a little card on the table that flipped from red to green. But the similarities ended there. Caipirinhas were not available and there was only one type of steak. But there was a lot of Chinese food brought around on the skewers. And at one point, three guys got up on a stage and sang La Bamba.

All that said - the food was pretty good.

After the Brazilian place, we met up with a GSB friend at a really cool jazz bar where it was Latin Night. This Latin Night was really authentic however. There was a full 9 piece salsa band, and at least 6 of the band members were from Colombia. A largely Latin ex-pat crowd danced and sang in Spanish and Portuguese. Really fun, though my salsa ability in the eastern hemisphere is precisely the same as my salsa ability in the western hemisphere.