D.D's Club

Adventures of Shanghai D.D’s Club trip to Tsingtao

I was invited to go on a team building trip with French Company.  We started off on a Friday afternoon and flew into Tsingtao.  The good thing is that the plane from Shanghai leaves from Hongqiao airport instead of going to Pudong. 

The flight to Tsingtao was a little over 2 hours.  We did not go for the beer fest.  That’s about 2 weeks later.  The airport to the city is about 20 minutes.  We got in just in time for dinner.  We headed over to restaurant row; it’s about 4 blocks long filled with all restaurants.  The funny thing is that the big restaurants from the start of the block are all from Shanghai. 

We found a girl driving a BMW Z3 and asked her which restaurant is the best and she pointed us in the right direction.  You can see a picture of the restaurant and the name.  I miss placed the name card.  The restaurant was 5 floors high and the seafood looked great.  They had so many tanks full of seafood.  The only problem we found is that they refuse to serve the seafood raw.  They would not serve the oysters raw or the sea urchin raw.  We were disappointed about that.  The food was so so, I think when you find a restaurant to big the food is not at its best. The drink for dinner was of course Tsingtao beer.  The beer taste weaker than the beers we see in Shanghai. 

The next stop was baby Face Tsingtao.  They recently opened in Tsingtao.  The bottles are inexpensive at 520RMB with green tea and a fruit platter.  It was a long night since we drank 4 bottles.  Half the girls were tipsy when they left for the hotel.  We went to late night supper on the same street different restaurant, late night very little business but food was prepared so much better with less people.

I always heard that Tsingtao girls are tall and cute.  I think they all left Tsingtao.  The club looked like a carbon copy of the Shanghai baby face the only difference is that they have lots of KTV rooms in Tsingtao.  I asked around and they say it’s the hottest club in Tsingtao.  It’s barely full and a lot people than the Shanghai Baby Face.

Day 2

The tour guide wanted to take us to the aquarium, as we drove the place all we saw were tour buses and lots and lots and lots of people.  I said I will wait on the beach for them and then we all decided to go to the beach instead.  The people in China are very interesting, 75% of the people go to the beach in regular clothing.  They roll up the cuffs of the pants to the knee and walk along the water.  You can see the pictures in the picture section.  Shanghai women they just love food.  We got to the beach and all these guys walking around with food, the girls were eating in less than 2 minutes. 

We opted to go back to restaurant row for lunch.  The food was very good again, then off to star bucks to people watch.  Yes, still in search of the beautiful Tsingtao girl.  After 2 hours of girl watching all we found were Korean cute girls.  They were very cute.  Tsingtao has lots of Koreans.  We actually asked around and found the perfect restaurant to have dinner at.  The restaurant is on top of a cliff overlooking the ocean.  We got to the restaurant and got the last table.  The view was so beautiful.   The food again was excellent. 

Our next adventure took us to the best KTV in Tsingtao.  It was huge.  It took up a 3 story building and the rooms were all beautiful with flat screens and bathrooms.  The drinks were not expensive.  The usual buy 2 bottles get 1 free and fruit platter and some small snacks.  The girls were not great looking.  No real sexy girls and no Tsingtao local’s girls that looked good. 

I also checked out club Feel which is the local hot club.  It’s 3 times bigger than Baby Face and half block down.  It’s all local very few foreigners.  The girls are very very local and no real cute women either.   It’s a very raw rough feel in this club.  They have a very young and crowd and an older crowd. 

Day Three

I had a plan to go see the Tsingtao beer factory but the girls were against that.  The tour of the Beer factory was 50 RMB.  I sort of pushed everyone to go.  I mean how can you go to Tsingtao and not go see the beer factory.  The tour was so so, but the fun part was after a tasting they had this room where you walk into that is at a 90 degree angle and you stand and look in you feel like the room is spinning and your drunk.  Actually we were still drunk from the night before.  We didn’t get back till 4 in the morning and we were up at 8:30. 

We found a whole long street of restaurants across the street from the brewery.  I looked thru them and picked the one that had the freshest and best seafood.  It was the best meal we had in Tsingtao.  The actually were willing to serve the blood clams near raw.