A mish mash of things
by sugarpuff about Charmant
A place that is open until 4am which is always useful to know when you're in a foreign city and just KNOW that you're going to be hungry after a night out! When we had had a night out in Shanghai during the October Holiday we all staggered here around midnight before going onto a jazz club. As you can see from the photo, there were quite a lot of us, at least 20. The food came quick and the standard was quite alright. I wouldnt say it was the BEST food around, but when you're looking for a place that late at night, you can';t really complain! Being Cantonese dishes mainly and therefore not really knowing what is good and what isn't my friends had to help choose. I have grown to know and recognise some dishes, such as lemon tea (!), congees, beef noodles, a thousand year old eggs (preserved eggs), tofu of all different sorts and styles and then there were some token western dishes like spaghetti bolognaise etc. These are done in a Chinese way so they dont really taste the way you would expect it to.
I couldnt say what was my favourite dish sorry... but just try a little bit of everything!
Nanjing Road
by imstress
The 5.5-km long Nanjing Road is the most bustling and prosperous street in Shanghai . It was first built in 1851.
Hundreds of big stores and famous shops were opened one after another. The colourful and brightly litted Nanjing Road became the most bustling commercial street in Shanghai and in the whole country. Nanjing Road has become the centre of Shanghai’s busy downtown.
You will find hundreds of modernised shops, famous old-brand stores and special product shops. It has become the largest collecting and distributing centre of retail goods and an information centre.
At night, lights glitter in blazing colours, especially at weekends, it becomes a pedestrian walkway for shopping and sightseeing.
An almost surreal experience
by SPW
Driving in from the airport for our 5 day stay, there were endless blocks of flats(apartments), incredible road interchanges (up to 5 and 6 levels), kitsch sights like a giant bunch of flowers, old European style buildings and glimpses of futuristic modern ones.
While observing all this our guide was filling us with facts, figures and fables: modern Shanghai girls look for the 6 Cs when looking for a husband: car, condo, credit card, cash, certificate (degree)!
The only way to make sense of this city was to stop trying to make sense of it and just take it as it came, fragments of old, new, different, chaotic and timeless.
Outside the resteraunt & that is the Toyota!
more renminbi
Pudong - viewed from the Bund
Shanghai Biennale 2006
