If you are like me and you didn't know this and have already booked your tickets (and want to make the most out of your trip), here is how you avoid a heat stroke while travelling around Shanghai: watermelon and melons!
- If you keep an eye out, you will notice street-side vendors selling melons on sticks. Melons on sticks are usually 3 Kuai. It's like ice cream but a million times better (and I would say at least 5 times healthier).
- In case you can't find someone selling melons on sticks, carry a plastic spoon in your bag. So then when you come across a fruit store (there are fruit stores everywhere), you can ask them to cut a watermelon in half. Just say "ban" with your eyebrows raised ("ban" means half). Then take your watermelon, find a shady spot, and scoop dat melon.
There are probably other ways of avoiding a heat stroke. Drinking lots of water probably works. But this is what I did and it was so much more exciting than carrying a bottle of water around.
After my trip, I was talking to a herbal-medicine guy and apparently watermelon helps keep your body cool and is recommended for people recovering from heat strokes. So yeah. Perfect.
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| Half way through my month in China I started making a photo-record of all the melons I ate haha. |
