Tag: "French Concession"
Cheers In: Shanghai’s Beer Lovers Paradise
Píjiǔ, píjiǔ! When you think China and you think beer quite frankly the first thing that comes to mind is the watered down Snow, Harbin and Tsingtao that they have the cheek to call beer. Now I’ll fully admit I’m not a beer drinker (I can hear all of my home country Australia sighing in disgust!) that being said I can appreciate a good bottle of brew! And if you’re a Shanghai resident or just passing through the beer fairy has a grand treat for you, delicious, quality international beers thanks to four clever French guys and their new store …
This is China: Backstreets of the French Concession
Beyond China’s ever growing flashy exterior, beyond a modernising China steaming towards the future, beyond Shanghai’s Bund, beyond high rise apartments is an older, more traditional, locals China. And you don’t even have to venture very far to discover it!
This is China in the backstreets of the French Concession in Shanghai.
The French Concession (Shànghǎi Fǎ Zūjiè ) stretching across three districts: Xuhui, Luwan and Jing’An is a premier residential and commercial neighbourhood in Shanghai. Between 1846 to 1946 this neighbourhood was predominately a concession for all the French settled in Shanghai. It is the …
Strange Shanghai: 2am, Time to buy a Teddy Bear
You can buy some pretty strange things on the street in Shanghai, most of which are at least useful, chairs you can sit on and ducks neck at least you can eat, but this is just downright bizarre! The first time I saw it I thought it was just a one off, and then I continued to see it nearly every night I went out, a man selling GIANT TEDDY BEARS at 2am!!! Apparently 2am is Time to buy a Teddy Bear! If you’re ever around Hengshan Rd after 11pm then it’s likely you’ll run into this guy and his …
Strange Shanghai: Sleeping Salesman at ‘Not Quite Ikea’
In Shanghai, Ikea isn’t the only place you can buy budget furniture. Oh no you can buy it right off the back of a cart on the side of the street! Though apparently at this furniture shop on Gao’an Road in Shanghai’s French Concession, by the looks of the sleeping salesman business isn’t exactly bustling.
If that salesman is reading this here’s my advice to increase business: Paint the chairs bright red, yellow, green or blue and they will look exactly the same as their Scandinavian counterparts. Everyone will be rushing to Gao’an Roads “Not Quite Ikea!”
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