Our Hotel for 3 nights called the JinJiang Inn.
Yunnan Road (recomended food street), where we saw lots of animal innards and strange fish all being prepared on the streets, plus a man pouring out a load of toads from a bag into a small tub. This didn't really stir my appetite, along with the smells too, until we turned a corner and found a restaurant that had all its food safely behind doors and indoors. What you don't know, won't harm you, came to mind.
Discarded chopsticks.
The Bund
Old Town
The location of the original Shanghai, the oldest part of of the city has deffinately been marked by the present, much like everywhere we've seen, roads ending abruptley, buildings half built, or half distroyed, out with the old in with new we might say, the Chinese say jiude buqu, xinde bulai meaning if the old doesn't go the new won't come.
We did seem to catch some glimpses of the 'real' Shanghai occassionally, but what that is we can't say, everything seemed to be a mash of styles, ages, classes, a confusion as what it wants to be or even what has been.
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The only picture that gives you a good impression of Shanghai is of your hotel.
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