1. Shanghai People's Square
Shanghai People's Square is located in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, shaped in the opening of the port of Shanghai
After the original called Shanghai Happy Valley, is the upper class held horse racing and other activities. The People's Square in a broader sense consists of an open square, the People's Park, and a number of cultural, tourist and commercial buildings in the surrounding area. People's Square is the economic, political and cultural center of Shanghai, a transportation hub, a tourist center and one of the most important landmarks in Shanghai. Located in the center of the city, People's Square is the only intersection of Line 1 and Line 2, and is also the station for transferring to Metro Line 6. People's Square is one of the most important landmarks in Shanghai, with a cluster of buildings from the 1930s that will bring you closer to the Shanghai Bund
, the Shanghai Museum
, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Shanghai Grand Theatre, Raffles City, and other top art centers and shopping malls. The subway also takes you directly to Dimei, Hong Kong's famous store street, and other fashionable clothing streets that Shanghai's MMs love to go to, so you can enjoy your shopping. Walking east along People's Avenue, you will reach the book-scented Fuzhou Road Culture Street, which is lined with Shanghai Book City and many old bookstores. Along the street, there are many century-old restaurants where you can enjoy the classic flavors of Shanghainese cuisine
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There is an underground food court in Fushi Plaza, where Chinese and foreign food is available at fair prices, making it a good place to dine on the way to the market. If you go to Fuzhou Road to visit the bookstore, dining can go to the Fuzhou Road, No. 556, the old Zhengxing, is a hundred years of history of the local food restaurant, oil explosion river shrimp, grass head circle, shrimp, such as the big Wu ginseng local food to do extremely authentic. If you want to taste the delicious flavor of authentic Shanghai hairy crabs, Wang Baohe, No. 603 Fuzhou Road, is the first choice. If you want to eat economically and delicious, Fuzhou Road, No. 600 of the old half of the Zhai is the best choice, snow dishes simmering noodles is let the old Shanghai people half a century are fond of the signature flavor, ordering about fifty yuan, about ten yuan noodles.
2. Xintiandi
Shanghai Xintiandi is the symbol of Shanghai's modern architecture - the old Shikumen buildings as the basis, for the first time to change the Shikumen's original function of residence, innovatively endowed with the commercial business function, reflecting this piece of Shanghai's history and culture of the old house transformed into a set of international level of food and beverage, shopping, performing arts and other functions of the fashion, leisure, culture and entertainment center. The exterior of Xintiandi's Shikumen complex retains the brick walls and roof tiles of the past, while the interior of each building is customized according to the lifestyles, rhythms, and emotional worlds of twenty-first-century modern city dwellers, all reflecting the atmosphere of a modern leisure life.
Neighborhood CuisineThere are many fine restaurants in Xintiandi with elegant environments and chic cuisine, and in Xintiandi North there are a number of Western-style restaurants serving exotic flavors from France, Germany, Italy, and Thailand. In Xintiandi South, there are a number of traditional and elegant Chinese restaurants, both health-oriented concepts of medicinal cuisine restaurants, as well as sophisticated upscale Cantonese seafood restaurants, can definitely meet your culinary requirements, but the price is not expensive. If you're looking for a more affordable option, there's a wide range of snacks available at the Grand Food Court on the ground floor of Hong Kong Plaza
, with a wide variety of dishes at fair prices, so you can choose from a variety of options. If you want to be more moody, the second and third floors of the square have a number of upscale Cantonese, Teppanyaki and Southeast Asian restaurants.
3. Fuxing Park
Fuxing Park is located at 105 Yandang Road, east of Chongqing South Road, south of Fuxing Middle Road, west of Sinan Road, north of the Science Hall and other boundaries. Park has three gates in and out; South Gate in Fuxing Road, Chongqing South Road corner; North Gate in Yandang Road; West Gate out of Gaolan Road. Fuxing Park is one of the earliest parks in Shanghai. More than eighty years ago, it was a piece of fertile land inhabited by hardworking and poor farmers. At that time, a family named Gu owned more than ten acres of land and built a small private garden here, which was called "Gu's Residence Garden", and this was the original prototype of Fuxing Park.
Neighboring food is inexpensive and economical, so you can choose from the Wuyue Family Noodle House on Lane 706 of Middle Huaihai Road or the Canglangting Noodle House on No. 689 around Fuxing Park, which offer fairly priced noodles with seasonal fish, shrimp, and vegetables as toppings. For a more luxurious meal, the Old Night Shanghai Restaurant on South Maoming Road and Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant not far from Canglang Pavilion can satisfy your requirements, while the nearby Istanbul Restaurant will give you an authentic experience of exotic cuisine. While shopping, the Haagen-Dazs by Parkson has outdoor seating where you can enjoy ice cream while watching the fashionable beauties rush by on Middle Huaihai Road, while the Lillian's Egg Tart by Cathay Cinema has a history of being one of the best restaurants in China, with a reputation for being one of the most popular restaurants in the world. Lillian's Egg Tart was once named the most delicious Portuguese egg tart in Shanghai.
4. Hengshan Road
Hengshan Road is a quiet and elegant passageway between the two busy areas of Shanghai, Xujiahui and Huaihai Road, and is also one of the main traffic arteries in Shanghai, the most famous leisure and entertainment street in Shanghai. Hengshan Road was built in 1892 by the French Public Administration and used to be the famous Pétain Road in the French Concession; it was renamed Hengshan Road in October 1943 and the whole street is 2.3 kilometers long. Hengshan Road is close to the Consulate
district, and its intersecting roads are lined with leisure venues of different styles, mainly bars, tea houses, hotels, entertainment centers, beauty salons, galleries and so on*** more than 100, attracting mature white-collar workers and modern-conscious young people at the upscale consumption level. Hengshan Road to the national flavor of food and beverage, leisure bars, entertainment and fitness for the operation of the elegant consumer area, with eating, drinking, playing and other comprehensive leisure, in terms of geographical scale in Shanghai is nowhere to be found, it is the first choice to identify the charm of the night Shanghai style.
Peripheral food out of the Hengshan Road railroad station to Dongping Road, walk about ten minutes is the day Thai restaurant, soon after the opening of many Chinese and foreign magazines as "the best Thai restaurant", "Shanghai's best restaurant" and so on. The Thai royal family will definitely dine here whenever they travel back to Shanghai. One Thousand and One Nights, located not far from the Hengshan Road subway entrance, is a Middle Eastern-style Lebanese cuisine restaurant, where you can enjoy authentic Arabian-style pancakes and roasted meats, as well as Middle Eastern dance performances in the evening. If you want to taste Shanghai cuisine, you can go to Yang's Kitchen, located in a quiet alley, the restaurant has been featured in newspapers and magazines, and is famous for its fresh ingredients and authentic flavors. Zanglongfang, located at the intersection of Hengshan Road and Dongping Road, has become one of the most stylish restaurants in Shanghai because of its oriental charm, and its fusion of Chinese and Western flavors is popular with foreigners and office workers at the nearby consulate.
5. Xujiahui Catholic Church
Xujiahui Catholic Church is a famous Catholic Church in China, located in Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
Xujiahui Puxi Road 158, for the Catholic Diocese of Shanghai Cathedral, the official name is "St. Ignatius Church", the side of the church has the Catholic Diocese of Shanghai, the Bishop's House, nunnery. The Cathedral was founded in the Qing Dynasty in the third year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu. The Cathedral was built in 1904, and in September 1910 the Cathedral was completed. The Xujiahui Catholic Church is an imitation of a French medieval Gothic church with red brick walls, white stone pillars and a greenish-gray slate tile roof. The whole building is five-storey high, with a brick structure and a typical European medieval Gothic appearance. On both sides of the top of the hall is the Gothic bell tower, double spire masonry structure, the ridge is 18 meters high, the height of the bell tower is about 60 meters, the spire of 31 meters, the spire on the two crosses
, straight into the sky. There is also a cross on the body of the church, rather like a roulette wheel
shape - life is like driving a roulette wheel, an appropriate metaphor.
Neighboring food Xujiahui shopping district shopping malls, including Metro City, Grand Gateway Plaza are equipped with a food area, from the country and around the world can be found in the flavors of the cuisine, both upscale Cantonese seafood and foreign cuisine, as well as mid-range affordable Taiwanese snack congee store, the abundance of money to suit the needs of the people. There are also many food outlets around these big shopping malls, with delicious burgers, kebabs, milk tea and smoothies, and even KFC has opened its Oriental sibling, Oriental White
, next to Metro City. In addition, the Tianyaoqiao road near Xujiahui is also known as a food street, with a number of restaurants such as Duck King
roast duck, Douluo hot pot, and other more tasteful specialties, medium and high-end consumption. There are also a lot of new style of clothing stores on this road, selling young designers at home and abroad the trend of masterpieces, loved by young people who pay attention to the personality of the dress.
6. The Bund Sightseeing Tunnel
The Bund Sightseeing Tunnel, which is located between the Oriental Pearl Radio and Television Tower in Pudong, Shanghai
and the Bund on Nanjing East Road in Puxi, is a 647-meter-long, color-changing subway tunnel that makes visitors feel as if they were in a dream. It is China's first pedestrian tunnel across the river, connecting the Bund sightseeing area in Puxi and the emerging tourist area of Pudong's Little Lujiazui, forming one of the brightest sights in Shanghai's tourist landscape.
Neighborhood Food Binjiang Avenue Food and Leisure Street - Binjiang Avenue is a scenic avenue along the river, and the best viewpoints are located in Puxi, the Museum of Architecture of the World directly across from a piece of the area. In order not to waste such a wonderful view of the river, a number of internationally renowned restaurants and coffee shops have settled here, Paulaner, Xu Liushan, H?agen-Dazs and Starbucks, etc. branches here are rated as the most romantic place in Shanghai. Standing in front of the riverside fence blowing the river breeze to enjoy the beautiful view of the opposite building has been a pleasant enjoyment, such as sitting in the open-air seats of these restaurants to drink a cup of good memories can be a long time to come back to savor.
7. City God Temple
City God Temple is a famous attraction in Shanghai, China, located in the south of Huangpu District, near Yuyuan Garden. Legend has it that it was built by Sun Hao, the lord of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, it was remodeled from the original Jinshan Temple. There are three city gods enshrined in the temple, namely Huo Guang
, Qin Yu Bo and Chen Huacheng. The front hall is dedicated to Huo Guang, the god of Jinshan, the main hall is dedicated to Qin Yu Bo, the god of the city, and the back hall is the bedchamber. Over the past hundred years, the City God Temple has been transformed into a shopping mall from a temple market. Now there is a pagoda built in 1535 in front of the gate, and the theater was built in 1865. And the front hall, the main hall is equal to the fire in 1922, rebuilt in 1926, although the appearance is still the form of the temple, the structure is reinforced concrete. In addition, the temple was expanded to include the Hall of the King of Hell and the Hall of the Starry Night. Now, there is no more idol in the temple, and there is a handicraft store in the house.
Neighboring Cuisine Inside the City God Temple, there is the City God Temple Food Street. Inside the food street, Shanghai's long-established snack store - Nanxiang steamed buns store (Yuyuan Road store), the small dumplings thin skin filled with juicy full of very authentic. There is also in the green corridor opposite the obvious and eat a famous old Ningbo soup dumplings Museum, a very small store, always crowded with people, his family's soup dumplings soft sticky filling sweet and not sticky teeth, the most famous is the sesame lard soup dumplings, the price and the other traditional snacks of the City God Temple, not cheap, but the store every day is a sea of people, more than doing business with tourists, interested friends may wish to go in the beginning of the Lantern Festival time to come together! The shop is not cheap, but it is crowded every day, mostly with tourists. In the near Yuyuan Park near a store specializing in fishing bell burn snacks, store hall is very clean, selling cakes and selling drinks on each side, fishing bell burn super tasty, custard flavor is very strong and fragrant, the outer skin is very crispy, be sure to eat it while it is still hot oh! Inside the store, there are tables and seats, after shopping and eating dinner at the City God Temple, you can order a drink and buy a couple of jiaozhong yaki to rest your feet here. Songyunlou Restaurant: crabmeat xiaojiao, osmanthus pudding, squirrel osmanthus fish, cashew nut cake. He Feng building: tofu flower, small cage, three fresh bean skin, three yellow chicken, dunking soup dumplings, stinky tofu, crabmeat pan-fried, Cantonese dim sum and so on are worth your visit Oh!
8. Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall is located in the center of Shanghai People's Square, a six-storey building, the roof of the hall there are four symbols of the Shanghai city flower Magnolia giant white steel cap, and the west side of the Shanghai Grand Theater, a left and a right mirror. The exhibition hall was completed in early 2000, officially opened to the public on February 25, 2000, as an important window for Shanghai's foreign propaganda, under the leadership of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, with the theme of "city, people, environment, development" as the display, to the people of Shanghai and the world to show the achievements of the construction of Shanghai's urban planning and development! It has become a civilized unit in Shanghai, a national (and Shanghai) science education base, a Shanghai patriotism education base, a Shanghai environmental protection education base, and a vocational apprenticeship base, allowing citizens to know about urban planning and participate in urban planning, and bridging the gap between the municipal government and the public.
Surrounding food in the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center is surrounded by one of Shanghai's famous food streets, Wujiang Road, Wujiang Road Food Street, a collection of Shanghai's authentic snacks and local specialties. Along the way, there are unique and chic mobile vending carts and movable flower beds and trees. It integrates metro transportation, shopping and leisure, tourism and plaza culture, and is a special leisure street in Shanghai in the limelight. Both sides are full of national snacks, and the stores on both sides are crowded with people and long lines of tourists tasting food.
9. Seven Treasures Ancient Town
History says: "The town has no old name, the edge of the temple got its name, the temple has no other weight, due to the town to push the weight." In Zhang Ze She house to expand the temple, Song Dazhong Xiangfu first year (1008 AD), the emperor gave the name of "seven treasures to teach the temple", which seven treasures of the town was officially named. At that time, the "Seven Treasures Teaching Temple" has the "County East, the first temple," which covers an area of 60 acres, the Temple River 6 acres, the entire temple surrounded by green water, red walls and tiles, morning bells and evening drums, smoke around the prairie fire, the scenery is very beautiful. Attracted a hundred miles around the people to the Temple of the Seven Treasures to incense, which incense believers, the literati here to burn incense and worship Buddha, poetry and painting, for the Temple of the Seven Treasures to teach the incense flourish, people come and go, forming a popularity of the situation is very strong. And the pattern of market town form in the periphery of Qibao Temple, the end of the Yuan and early Ming dynasty Qibao town has developed to a certain scale, when the town of Qibao, "the residents are prosperous, businessmen and merchants are gathered, the literati and scholars come out, cover the town of Eup's giant." The area on both sides of Puhui Pond was named "Qibao Town" because of "Qibao Temple". Qibao Ancient Town is a thousand-year-old town belonging to the Taihu Lake Basin in Jiangnan, with picturesque scenery, typical of a town within a town, and the closest ancient town to downtown Shanghai. Stroll through the ancient town, see the stores, taste the mouth-watering snacks, and enjoy the ancient architecture and feel the ancient flavor.
Neighboring food in the Qibao Ancient Town of the backstreet is the Qibao Old Street, the whole street has a wealth of special snacks, as well as ancient buildings and so on. The street is divided into north and south streets, the south street is mainly characterized by snacks, the north street is mainly tourist handicrafts, antiques, paintings and calligraphy. The old street has become a bustling market integrating "leisure, tourism and shopping". Along the way, plum cake, stinky tofu, old street dumplings ...... a variety of snacks one after another, appetizing.
10. Jing'an Park
Shanghai Jing'an Park is located in West Nanjing Road, No. 1649, opposite the Jing'an Temple, the park is convex shape, south of Yan'an Middle Road, west of Huashan Road, east of the residential. Jing'an Park to the central avenue 32 hundred years of large trees hanging bell tree as the center, the northern main entrance for the ginkgo square, the eastern part of the history and humanities space, to the ancient "eight scenes of Jing'an" as the material, the use of small in the big, cover the depth of the traditional gardening techniques, built the "Eight Scenes of Jing'an Garden "The southeastern part of the park is a large ornamental lawn with undulating heights; the open area in the western part utilizes the difference between the high dome of the Jing'an Temple subway station and the ground, stacks mountains and waterfalls according to the situation, piles up large rockeries and waterfalls, and plants valuable flowers and trees on the slopes of the hills, setting up ornamental platforms, which is known as the spectacular "urban mountain forest" landscape, and it is the space for the modern metropolis to feel the natural landscape. It has become a space for modern metropolis to feel the natural landscape.
Neighboring food Jing'an Temple around the food, Nanjing Road, Yuyuan Road, there are many high-end restaurants, Chinese and Western flavors of simple food snacks and desserts are available. Yuguang Department Store after the Yuyuan Road section is a concentration of food, both the elegant environment of the Western restaurant, but also a tea and a sitting house enterprise soup, such as Taiwan-style simple Cantonese cuisine. Exit 1 of the subway is the vegetarian restaurant of Jing'an Temple, which is famous for its vegetarian dishes and snacks in Shanghai. Near the Paramount, there are restaurants with specialties such as One Tea and One Sitting, Yakushi Soup House, Burger King, Japanese ramen, etc., while walking all the way to West Beijing Road, you can also find Typhoon Shelter, Taiwanese Style Marinated Meat Rice, Salia's Italian Simple Meal, and Mang Kee's Desserts, etc., all of which are not too expensive and taste good places to go to eat. If you want to try Shanghai's favorite snacks on the street, there is a long-established confectionery store called "Sanyangsheng" directly across the street from Metro Exit 1, which bakes Shanghai's favorite snacks, fresh meat mooncakes, on site from morning to night, and there is always a long queue in front of the store to buy them.