Shanghai | Lights & Starbucks

After more than 4 hours bus ride from Hangzhou, we reached Shanghai in the evening. We rushed to the jetty to catch our 2nd boat ride of the day!!

We went to the upper deck to take some photos and videos before we went down to the seating area. It wasn't that cold up at the viewing deck before the boat started to go. At exactly 645pm the boat started to move along the HuangPu river.

The buildings at The Bund (or Waitan in Chinese) lighted up every nights, brighten up the Shanghai sky. 

The best feature (to me) was this Oriental Pearl tv tower (below). The lights changed colours every now and then. 

After our ride, we went for our late dinner. After that we proceed to Starbucks Reserve Roastery, the biggest Starbucks in the world. 

It was around 930pm when we reached Starbucks but the place was not lacked of patrons at the coffee bars. 2 floors with most activities at the ground floor. 

The smell of coffee beans filled up the place especially this storing area where a large copper cast with a 'R' labelled on it. 

We were still full from our dinner, so we did not get to buy anything. The pastries and confectioneries looked tempting but we gave them a pass. 

But hubby and I did tried something new in Starbucks. Coffee-infused alcoholic drinks. 98 RMB for these 3 drinks. 

One was fruity based (left), the middle was coffee based while the black drink was very strong black coffee infused. The fruity alcoholic was nice and acceptable for my standard. I sipped a little on the other 2 since I don't drink coffee.

Overall, very interesting flavours. At least I gave them a try. Don't know when I get to taste them again. ^^

Of course we didn't leave Starbucks empty-handed. Thermal pots as a souvenir and remembrance of Shanghai Starbucks.