A much better water town

Decided to visit a better water town. We got a taxi in Shanghai and an hour and a half later we arrived in Xitang. Getting out of the taxi I was commenting on the skills of google maps, since we used it to adjust the taxi driver's Baidu directions. Thirty seconds later I realized I'd left my phone in the now departed taxi.

What to do?

John called up Jing, a rigger with Chinese skills. John then passed her to a policeman and he explained the situation.

Luckily I had a taxi receipt, from which the policeman could track down the driver by phoning the taxi driver.

There was a lot of Chinese shouting interspersed with "Laowai" sort of impolite word for westerners.

The policeman was really shouting. I think the just was:

"I am Policmeman"

"You took Laowai's phone"

"Bring back Laowai's phone"

"Now"

Twenty minutes later the taxi returned with my phone

Well that turned out well. Thanks Jing!

Here's a picture of the water town:

They filmed one of the Mission Impossible films here. They are very proud of this so there are many Tom Cruise pictures dotted around.

We stopped off to get scorpion on a stick

Then we stopped in at a terrace on the canal. It was basically someones back yard. 

He brought us many beers. 

This made John Happy.

This is Mike in the same terrace. We paid this man 20 Yuen to play us some Chinese songs.
This made Mike happy.

Here we are having lunch. It was not a good lunch, but there was beer again.