Sea World and Singing

Sea World, Shekou, with Nanshan Mountain in the background

SS Minghua, Shekou Sea World

Shekou Sea World at night

Tuesday night, the Nanshan Clan plus Cameron ventured out to Shekou Sea World. No, it’s not a theme park with orcas. It’s a very Western (and by that I mean European and American) shopping/dining area, complete with a large ship with restaurants and bars on it. The ship has been docked permanently in cement. Out in the plaza area, there is a Starbucks, TCBY, Mexican restaurant, Irish bar, and just about everything else you can imagine. My favorite part is the great view of Nanshan Mountain, that I want to hike soon.

We ate at the Mexican restaurant. The waitresses were wearing Mexican dresses, but the only Spanish they knew was Hola. It was great food, though! Afterward we explored the ship and wandered around. From the German bar on top of the ship, you could see the bay and into Hong Kong. Beautiful!

Last night, some of the Meilin/Futian campus folks came over to celebrate Debra’s birthday. We went to Noodle King first, and then went to karaoke. Karaoke here is different than what I’m used to. You rent a private sound-proof room for several hours. It has it’s own disco ball in it even. So funny! We had fun watching the old Michael Jackson videos and singing along with old songs (including Lion King songs), but after the second Lady GaGa video I think I was ready to go…   I loved it when our interpreter friend (she’s an instructional assistant at our school like I was in Salem) sang Chinese songs. She did one love song and then a song that seemed from the video to be the Chinese version of TLC. Funny! All in all it was a fun night.

So now I’ve experienced the most popular entertainment places and forms in the peninsula. Aside from hiking, I think next I’d like to head east and check out the theme parks! After I get paid, of course…