When Paul leaves..Sherpa comes

Paul has left for a business trip for 10 days leaving me with no one cooking for me. I know I´m VERY spoilt from my husband who despite me not working still fills pole postion for chef in the kitchen. But  what shall I do? He is so talented, he loves cooking and I can always think of more exciting things to do than that. So why take it away from him :-) ?

The other night I really fancied an Indian curry. Sure I somehow could have assembled something by myself (after all Paul made me a survival cook book once for when he is not arround)  But Shanghai offers a much better and faster solution.  It is called "SHERPAS" and it works as follows:

Sherpas is a "Take away" delivery service. But not only for Pizza, Chinese or Mc Donalds (MC actually have their own delivery service here!), but for more than 60 favorite restaurants in the city which are  listed with their menue in the Sherpa-bible:

It is extremly easy to use which is one reason why it is so popular.
All you need to do is to pick and choose a dish from your  favorite restaurant...

... call the hotline or just order the whole thing with 3 mouse clicks on their website.
You get an order confirmation by email and than you wait about 45 minutes until the doorbell rings and an orange dressed men delivers your (still hot) food on a scooter...

.. and enjoy your meal!...

The only thing you are left with are the dirty dishes afterwards

But if you are lucky,you have an Ayi who does even that for you :-)

The concept is genious. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner - you can really order everything.If you choose to order from different restaurants. The little scooters pick it up and bring it all at the same time to you.

But just to get the picutre right here:

I will go shopping now and try myself on a Chinese stir fry tonight :-)

If you want to find out more about Sherpas, take a look under

http://www.sherpa.com.cn/index.shtml

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