Zhapu Road.

Zhapu Road food street is located in the southwestern part of Hongkou District, south of Suzhou Creek, in turn, north across the Haining Road, Wujin Road, and continue to extend northward to border with Sichuan North Road Park. It emerged in the mid-1980s and flourished in the mid-1990s. As one of Shanghai's earliest food streets, Zhapu Road was once the city's most famous food and fashion landmark, much like today's Xintiandi.

The area is dominated by trendy restaurants featuring Cantonese cuisine and raw seafood, which can be eaten in the lobby or in private rooms, and snacks, home-cooked food, and upscale dishes, to name but a few. The media in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan have also called it a "miniature", "mini" and "luxury" dining street.

Expanded Information

In the late 1980s, when Zhapu Road was still a small road surrounded by Shikumen houses, one or two residents took the lead in breaking down the walls to open eating establishments. Who would have thought that these one or two small eating establishments would bring Zhapu Road into the realm of a city landmark? At that time, most of the catering enterprises in Shanghai were state-owned, and they could no longer meet the needs of the public in terms of dining space, cuisine and service.

Many Shanghainese had the experience of going out to dine on holidays and not being able to find a seat, so they stood at the restaurant's table and waited for others to finish eating. It can be said that the market demand for a large number of private catering enterprises at that time has been available.

To the mid-1990s, Zhapu Road food street stores have been more than a hundred, and store decorations sophisticated up. Zhapu Road food street is now "inconspicuous during the day, the night show". The mid-1990s is the Zhapu Road food street from the victory to decline period, then, a small Zhapu Road is crowded with more than a hundred restaurants.

And now it has shrunk by half, leaving only 30 or so, and really on the scale, but the Dynasty, Pearl River, and so on ten or so. At that time, Zhapu Road, private restaurants opened one after another, which in itself is already a novelty, and these restaurants continue to renovate the dishes, flexible prices, close to the service, but also the first trend, the public was attracted to it, it makes sense.

The media's focus on Zhapu Road gave it a glamorous aura. In those days, coming to Zhapu Lu was not just about dining, it was also about enjoying an atmosphere and experiencing a fashion, just as people do today when they go to Xintiandi.

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