In Shanghai, there are two kinds of places where you can have afternoon tea, one is very simple, so simple that the walls are just painted a layer of white on the matter, and the rebar on the roof is even omitted. However, business is really good, especially in summer, and simple places always have a post-modernist beauty, whether it's the confusingly earthy "Hotaru Shichi" with its winged bar, or the "Three Thousand Yard" made of glass and rough wooden pillars. The reflections of metal or glass always clear the mind.

Some cloudy afternoons, British Sarah sinks into a large, dark sofa or sits by a window framed by a bamboo grove, listens to jazz over the loudspeaker, pours a cup of tea, and quietly contemplates. Without the distraction of night and alcohol, you realize that Shanghai afternoons are also a beautiful time of day.

Located at 811 Hengshan Road, "Little Red House" offers a different style of afternoon tea, with delicate desserts, fruits and cheeses served on silver platters, styled like the silver candlesticks of the British aristocracy. The old red-brick walls, European-style buildings, and a large garden outside also constitute an enviable "garden house" in the eyes of the Shanghai people, echoing the false fireplace, old jukeboxes, and revolving escalators inside, reminding everyone of the "Wherestoryhappens". Wherestoryhappens". Of course, the old mansion, formerly the headquarters of Baidai China and the site of the former China Singing Company, has now been contracted out, but no matter how foreign the décor, there is always the feeling that Zhou Xuan's nostalgic singing voice still comes out from the corners of the staircases or the flowery glass of the shuttered windows.

In Shanghai, there are more and more garden house-style bars that offer both afternoon tea and restaurants, and Sarah, a Briton, feels that the atmosphere is very close to that of the UK, with a kind of warmth embedded in the middle.

Shanghai people have the habit of drinking afternoon tea, it seems to be in the foreign-funded companies up, fundamentally, that is a kind of international culture spread, but also a kind of white-collar fashion lifestyle. However, in the United Kingdom, if it is on a weekday, lunch time is generally after two o'clock, most people eat after the incident make a cup of coffee even if the afternoon tea, and will not take the time to do this thing. Only on weekends or holidays in the afternoon, the British will be in the leisure time, such as watching TV in between, or after reading a book, make coffee or bags of black tea, a little rest.

Sarah Lewiaton, 26, from the United Kingdom, has traveled to Australia and France since graduating from college, and then became interested in cultural exchanges between the East and the West, so she came to the Pearl of the Orient, Shanghai, in her dreams. "Simply traveling doesn't give you a good understanding of the local culture, unless you stay and work and live in this strange city, you can really penetrate