The South Bund Soft-Spinning Material Market nán wài tān miàn liào 南外滩面料 in lù jiā bang lù 399 陆家浜路 is surely one of Shanghai attractions. As you may have already read in forums the quality of the products and materials is not excellent there. Nevertheless if you live in Shanghai, you know how to give instructions and you have…
Taxi drivers are surely the most important component of this big city. In the last month I tried to sketch a sort of a taxi drivers categorization: – Some taxi drivers can speak some English, some can speak only Chinese, others can speak only Shanghainese; – Some are very quite, others try to ask everything…
How beautiful you are, Bialetti. If it wouldn’t have been for you I would have not survived in Shanghai. Of course I could have got an espresso from the bar downstairs, but nothing is more cheering than your aroma in the flat in the morning earliest hours. Thank you that you exists!
This picture is dedicated to all workers in Shanghai who are giving their life for the city’s new modern touch. In Shanghai there are thousands building sites. An uncertain number of unknown Chinese work there, day and night, breaking old walls and building new ones, under the worst safety working conditions. Their average wage is 10 Euros…
中山公园 Zhōngshān Gōngyuán, in the Changning 长宁 district, is surely one of the nicest Shanghai’s parks. It has a british style as its former owner was a britishman. Nevertheless it has also Chinese and Japanese elements, a lot of little pagoda and bonsai.
浦东 Pŭdōng is Shanghai’s New Town and lays on the east of the Huangpu River (黄浦河). Back to the 90ies this was a fishing village. Now it holds the biggest and most important buildings of Shanghai, such as the Pearl Tower and the World Trade Financial Tower and a major building under construction (it is…
公顷森林公园 Gōngqǐng Sēnlín Gōngyuán, big park in the north-east of Shanghai. It lays next to the Hangpu River. It contains more than 200 different tree species, cherry trees included, so it is very nice to visit the park in Mai by the cherry blossom.
