Subdued

If there’s any doubt that Shanghai is too crowded, we confirmed this last weekend.

We wanted to go to this korean chicken restaurant that a friend recommended the other day. For some dumb reason, we didn’t know this was located in Korean town. By the time we got there, we saw queues and queues of people queing at other restaurants even before we found our restaurant. I knew then that it was going to be futile because if the restaurant is as good as they say it is, the queue will be crazy too. Plus it was 5:45pm on a Saturday. Still kinda early but Shanghai people eat early.

I was right. By the time we found it, the queue number was #677. They were serving #190 at that time. Diao. We decided not to wait.

It’s true, at least for me, that when you can get something, it makes you want it more.

So, we decided to go back the next day. We thought that if we went after lunch, we would have a good chance of having the supposedly delicious Korean chicken for early dinner.

Hmmm.. it was raining. Does this mean that there’d be less people queuing?

This sight at another restaurant along the way didn’t bode well with our prospects.

 

DAMN. It’s just as crowded. Queue number was #122 and we got #289. 

Since it was early (3pm), we decided to wait. And since it was raining, we decided to wait indoors in a café.

The café was super crowded. I guess everyone had the same idea.

The queue to order drinks at the café was about 40 mins and the time for the orders to come was 20 mins. So that was an hour gone.

After using up all my lives in Candy Crush, it was 540pm. We have waited a total of 2.5 hours by then.

Checked the queue number - #227.

By simple extrapolation, the queue moved 100 places in 2.5 hours. That means that it’d be more than an hour before our turn.

Regrettably, we decided to give up. We are disappointed, because after two failed attempts, we didn’t manage to subdue the queue.

We vowed to be back.