Shanghai Chenghuang Temple

The area around Shanghai Chenghuang Temple Food Street can even be called the kingdom of snacks. Specialty desserts of Green Wave Gallery, Vegetable Buns of Songyue Lou, Eight Treasures Rice of Songyun Lou, Nanxiang Xiaojiao (small cage), Ningbo Soup Dumplings, and Wine Stuffed Dumplings, etc., are the tasty desserts that can't be missed in touring Shanghai.

Transportation: Shanghai City God Temple is located at No. 1, Yicheng Road, Huangpu District. People's Square (walk 450 meters) - People's Square Guangdong Road Station (take bus 980, 2 stops) - South Henan Road Fuyou Road Station (walk 610 meters) - City God Temple Shanghai Railway Station (walk 60 meters) - Shanghai Railway Station North Square (take Bus 929 or 306, 8 stops) - South Henan Road Fuxing East Road Station (walk 650 meters) - -Chenghuang Temple; Shanghai Pudong International Airport (take Metro Line 2 to Xujing East, 14 stops) - Century Avenue Station (walk 100 meters) - Zhangyang Road Dongfang Road Station (take Airport Line 6, 1 stop) --East Fuxing Road South Henan Road Station (walk 690 meters)--Cheng Huang Temple.

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A city, no matter how modernized it is, always has to have a place to keep some historical memories, and Chenghuang Temple is such a place. The old-style teahouses, restaurants and department stores in the area are engaged in a variety of daily necessities and Shanghai-style snacks, while the Lake Pavilion and the Jiuqu Bridge are the representative buildings of the old city hall culture.

Walking on the quiet Hengshan Road, one imagines that Eileen Chang would have often walked on the quiet passages with dense French sycamore trees; Sinan Mansion has 51 historic garden houses. It is like being in a complex of historical buildings with a lot of flavors. In addition to the familiar Hengshan Road, Xintiandi, Sinan Mansion and Chenghuangmiao, a number of specialty streets representing the new Shanghai's sea-school characteristics have also been selected as part of the new featured commercial streets.

Today's "old dock" is the former 16 stores, where the Linjiang Hall, the old-style Shikumen community has circulated the story of the Shanghai Bund tycoons, the former Golden Glory, Du Yuesheng's warehouses, after years of protective development, the doors, windows, corridors and columns to maintain the most rich architectural features of the flavor of Shanghai, but also cleverly integrated into the modern fashion! At the same time, modern and fashionable elements of glass and steel structure are skillfully incorporated, and part of the building has been skillfully designed to make the original seemingly plain space subtle, elegant and unique. Sitting on the European-style terrace on the roof, drinking tea and blowing in the river breeze, you can see the Huangpu River, the brick-walled warehouses of the old wharf and the iconic buildings on the other side of the river. The view is even more breathtaking when the lights come on and the neon flashes, outlining the modern shape of the entire bustling metropolis, thus becoming a new landmark for fashion and leisure.

The Dream Water Town. The architecture of Zhujiajiao's "Shangdu Li" brings together four Chinese architectural leaders, Zhang Yonghe, Ma Qingyun, Deng Kunyan and Liu Yichun, and is known as "the most beautiful place to watch the sun set over the ancient town". With "Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore - Traveler's Study Room", "Siban Porcelain Stance", "Mashoujiao is not a hot pot store With the settlement of special merchants such as "Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore - Traveler's Bookstore", "Siban Porcelain Stand", "Sesame Pepper is not a hot pot restaurant" and so on, this place has become the benchmark of the characteristic town of Zhujiajiao. "Shangdu Li" also offers "Shang class", adults can do yoga SPA, children can participate in ceramic courses, in this "town full of flowers" to feel the different The city's economy is still in a state of flux.

Innovative vitality in the sea

After the establishment of the Shanghai Characteristic Commercial Neighborhood Development Alliance, it will play the role of an alliance platform, integrate resources, exchange results, and create a group of Shanghai's characteristic commercial neighborhoods with "roots in history, veins of culture, souls of commerce, business, and famous brand names," said Shi Lihui, chairman of Shanghai Characteristic Commercial Neighborhood Development Alliance, when interviewed by the Shanghai Municipal Government. said in an interview.

As an international metropolis, the characteristic commercial street highlights Shanghai's sea culture while reflecting Shanghai's innovation and vitality.

Yuyuan Road, as a historical and cultural landscape area, is rich in alley space, building types and landscapes, with different styles of garden houses, new-style lanes and other residential apartments, as well as Chinese and Western architectural clusters, such as the famous Xiyuan Mansion, Hongye Garden, Huxi Villa, and Changning District Children's Palace, etc. The street has been designed with the concept of "art living" in mind. With the cross-border living aesthetics of "living art and living art" as the guide, the project aims to create a cross-border living aesthetics district that combines culture, business and tourism. At the same time, it aggregates cultural and creative designers' brands, builds online and offline creative display platforms, invests in incubation and helps start-up art and cultural brands, and creates a "living aesthetics neighborhood" that is always new. Today, Yuyuan Road has become a unique "neighborhood" creative park with both science and culture creation.

Huang Zhiwei, general manager of the old dock and ART Yuyuan Lifestyle Aesthetic Neighborhood, believes that "a hundred years of sycamore trees and a deep alley, which can not be provided by the network and e-commerce. The development of commercial neighborhoods must be combined with urban renewal, industrial development and leisure experience. Not necessarily the pursuit of 'buy buy buy', we are exploring the integration of exquisite residence, new office into experiential commercial neighborhoods."

Hengshan Place, located at the junction of Hengshan Road and Tianping Road, consists of 11 independent garden houses and two rows of typical Shanghai new-style lilong residences. The northern Xinli is a collection of creative offices, art spaces and exotic cuisines, while the southern garden houses are dominated by boutique retailers. After restoration, it is a collection of art galleries, fashion boutiques, specialty restaurants and bars, creative offices and other businesses.

It is divided into four sections: "Art and Creative Office", "Boutique Business", "Exquisite Life" and "Ultimate Gourmet". It also introduces exotic specialty restaurants, famous art galleries and creative offices.

Night market, another face of Shanghai

When it comes to night market, we must recall Taipei Shilin Night Market, Lugang Snacks Night Market, Liuhe Road Night Market, etc., in Taiwan, and visiting the night market is the best way to recognize a city. For Shanghai, night market is another face of Shanghai. Under the backdrop of night, it is mysterious and vivid.

Wu Xingbao, deputy director of the Municipal Commission of Commerce, revealed that the night market in Shanghai has changed from small stalls and hawkers in the past to the present day, with the characteristic commercial street area as the carrier, to put the elements of the night market, and the consumers want to eat well as well as eat safely. In Shanghai's 67 characteristic commercial streets, has emerged to Wujiang Road, University Road, Changli Road, represented by the characteristics of the night market.

No matter how Wujiang Road changes, it is a snack paradise. Especially at night, your mouth can always get a variety of new taste experiences here, from tea restaurants to Sichuan cuisine, from local hooves to raw and grilled seafood. At first light, Changli Road becomes a snack paradise, with rolling smoke from the charcoal fire by the intersection, sending the aroma of barbecued meat directly into people's noses; on Xianxia Road, Cantonese, Sichuan, Japanese and Korean cuisine, and the four directions of deliciousness converge here; on University Road, there are all kinds of restaurants, dessert stores, and creative stores, and the unique and refreshing paradigm of this place has attracted a number of film and TV crews, including "Man's Gang" and "Great Good Times", and so on.

Last buy before leaving Shanghai

In this year's latest list, Shanghai Disney Town and Eola Shanghai Shopping Village have been added to the list, along with the previously selected Florentine Town, resulting in a Disney shopping area for visitors to do some last-minute shopping before leaving Shanghai.

The Upper Oaks Shanghai Shopping Village, invested by Vitec, covers an area of 55,000 square meters and consists of three crescent-shaped buildings facing the lake, making it look like a luxurious European-style vacation park. Crossing the boulevard, one can admire the Art Deco architecture of the 1920s in New York, Paris, Milan, Vienna and Shanghai. Each street is named after an Art Deco leader. Throughout the year, cultural and artistic experiences will be held to realize the cross-border integration of art, fashion and innovative design. The entire shopping village is home to 200 famous brands from around the world.

Florence Town is an Italian-style large-scale high-end discount shopping center, attracting more than a hundred famous brands from home and abroad. The "town" presents Florence in the ancient Rome and Renaissance period through the classic Italian elements such as open-air building complexes, piazzas, stone pavements, arcades, fountains and monumental buildings. So in addition to shopping, this is also a great selfie destination.

Disney Town, which is adjacent to Shanghai Disneyland, has a "town market", "Disney Town Lakeside", "Hundred Foods", "Fragrant Street", "Hundred Foods", "Hundred Foods" and "Hundred Foods". Street, Broadway Boulevard and Broadway Plaza.

References:

People's Daily Online - 10 Chinese Food Streets to Eat at the End of the Street

Shanghai, China - Read the Different Shanghai in the Streets and Alleys 67 Shanghai Characteristic Commercial Streets in Shanghai