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Small gourmet teahouse for experimental tea fans. Sample tea served in an oatmeal cookie cup that you can eat, or perhaps tea with sea salt and cream cheese foam, or go all out and try the matcha green tea infused with white wine. Pair your bizarre concoction with an equally peculiar (but beautifully presented) desert.
The blue-and-white fermented-bean-curd mousse cake with popping candy is shaped like a giant capsule pill.
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One of Shanghai’s few active Buddhist monasteries, this temple was built between 1918 and 1928. The highlight is a transcendent Buddha crafted from pure…
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China’s tallest building dramatically twists skywards from its footing in Lujiazui. The 121-storey, 632m-tall, Gensler-designed Shanghai Tower topped out…
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Tianzifang and Xintiandi are based on a similar idea – an entertainment complex housed within a warren of lòngtáng (弄堂, alleyways). Unlike Xintiandi,…
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With its shaded alcoves, glittering pools churning with fish, plus pavilions, pines sprouting wistfully from rockeries, and roving packs of Japanese…
Shanghai World Financial Center
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Although trumped by the adjacent Shanghai Tower as the city’s most stratospheric building, the awe-inspiring 492m-high Shanghai World Financial Center is…
1. Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum
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Repositioned as a museum, this arts and crafts institute displays traditional crafts such as needlepoint embroidery, paper cutting, lacquer work, jade…
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Cité Bourgogne is an excellent example of a shíkùmén lǐlòng (traditional alleyway) neighbourhood. Built in 1930, it has been well preserved and is a great…
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This small, French-inspired park features a central avenue lined with statuesque plane trees. Come evening, this walkway regularly transforms into a stage…
4. Russian Orthodox Mission Church
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Built in 1934, this lovely blue-domed church was designed for the huge influx of Russians to Shanghai in the 1930s.
5. Chinese Printed Blue Nankeen Exhibition Hall
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Head down the lane and through courtyards until you see blue cloth drying in the yard. Originally produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guizhou provinces,…
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A short walk west along Gaolan Rd from Fuxing Park is rewarded by the distinctive shape of the vacant and now derelict St Nicholas Church, one of Shanghai…
7. Zhou Enlai’s Former Residence
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In 1946, Zhou Enlai, the much-loved (although some swear he was even more sly than Mao) first premier of the People’s Republic of China, lived briefly in…
8. Sun Yatsen’s Former Residence
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Sun Zhongshan predictably receives the full-on hagiographic treatment at this shrine to China’s guófù (国父, father of the nation). A capacious exhibition…
