Chilli China…

All of the Smirnoff Ten were very excited about China…

It’s a completely a different world!!!!

It’s pretty cold but still beautiful and interesting… we got a guided tour the fist day, Michael our guide took us to see a nice market and beautiful gardens, where we tried lots of street food, pretty strange food but I tried everything!

Afterwards we went to dinner to a very nice restaurant we tried the most part the menu… was crazy! The interesting thing in the Chinese restaurants is that you can order everything to share… I like that!

After dinner we took a long walk thro ugh ‘The Bund’ which is full of stores, sales people and the beautiful river; everything is so colourful and shiny!
Luiza and I got some skate shoes… hahahah and we played some arcade games with these teddy friends inside - Akona and I won a pair of teddy bears!

We went to see a French punk band in a place called ‘4 live’ and after that, we went to the Shelter (which long time ago was a bomb shelter). It was a pretty nice place with a dark tunnel as an entrance and lots of different people enjoying themselves there - French people mainly. You can find a different kind of music there every night, from rap and hip-hop, to techno, jazz and MC performers.

The weather has been very been cold!

We had a party in a city called Chengdu, so on Wednesday we caught a flight there and when we got there, there were some Smirnoff people already waiting for us with big signs saying ‘SMIRNOFF TEN!

Chengdu is awesome, the people are very warm and the streets are beautiful. We went to a Sichuan restaurant (which is like Chengdu’s traditional food) where we ate a lot of different and spicy food. After that we saw a performance of a Chinese magician. Then the people from Chengdu organized a noodle race between 5 of us, and I won! Wu wu wu!
That same night we went to a nice bar called A+. The music was great and the place was killer, full of acrylic tables with different coloured lights, they had Smirnoff and they put like origami with fruits so you could feel free to mix your drinks and your fruits! Pretty original way of drinking…


Our second night in Chengdu, we went to our first official Smirnoff Party in China; the dress code was white & silver.

The party was in this exhibition, the place was very industrial, but the venue was beautiful, all in white and silver. There was a transformer of the double-headed Smirnoff eagle performing. The line-up was DJ Fitalic (who has been working with DJ’s like John Digweed and Kasey Taylor), so I can tell that the music was super killer, the drinks consisted of thing like Cosmo martinis, Smirnoff Mule drinks as well as plenty of water.

The VIP pass was a pretty original bling-bling necklace with an ‘I LOVE SMIRNOFF’ legend on it.

Chengdu is a beautiful place to visit if you come to China.