The Daily Diary of a Wandering Restaurateur
May 3 - Shanghai
The Bund is where most of the international companies set up headquarters during the colonial period of the late 1800's and early 1900's. The warm weekend weather brought out the crowds for river-watching, sightseeing ... but mostly to take pictures of each other!
Nanjing Road was also packed with people ... and shops! Everywhere you look in Shanghai seems to be an interplay of the old and the new. All in all, a very vibrant and quite international city ... although it seemed dirtier to us than Beijing or Xi'an.
As we have seen in other Chinese cities, nighttime brings out the lights and a fairyland sort of feeling. The new buildings in Pudong seem particularly spectacular. The restaurant we went to for dinner was right on the Pudong Riverside so we got a great view of the Bund by night.
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