{"id":165,"date":"2008-10-29T10:54:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2008-11-09T23:55:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T04:55:58","slug":"shanghai-blurbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/2008\/10\/shanghai-blurbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Blurbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bund <\/strong>(Zhongshan Lu) is a famous area of Shanghai where there are many, old foreign banks and financial buildings, symbols of the western commercial power that thrived\u00a0 in the heart of colonial Shanghai.\u00a0 The view, as seen from our night cruise on the Huangpu River, was spectacular.<\/p>\n

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The Shanghai Museum<\/strong>, with over 120,000 cultural relics from 5,000 years of China’s history, was an interesting 3 hour stop on a very rainy afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Old Shanghai <\/strong> is where Rui taught me the fine art of haggling.\u00a0 She helped get me a gorgeous black pearl necklace and matching earrings for about $15.<\/p>\n

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Nanjing Lu <\/strong>is Shanghai’s foremost shopping street — six miles of shopper’s paradise.\u00a0 Note how the scooters and bikes are parked on the sidewalks.\u00a0 There are thousands of them everywhere.<\/p>\n

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Wujiang Lu <\/strong>(Snack Street) \u2013 the people in Shanghai snack constantly all times of the day.\u00a0 Everyone walks and eats.\u00a0 There are fast food kiosks with tantalizing smells and store fronts with\u00a0 bags of preserved treats: sweet, sour, salty, and savory.\u00a0 Rui and I stopped at a very popular stall and watched them make \u201cxio long bao\u201d, broth and meat-filled steam dumplings (also called baozi or in English “buns”).\u00a0\u00a0 We ate two each and then stood back in line and each got two more!\u00a0 To wash them down we bought large cups of Pearl Tea, or bubble tea as it is sometimes called. Large, black chewy ,translucent balls of pearl tapioca <\/span>sit at the bottom of the cup and you sip the fruity, milk tea with a wide straw.<\/p>\n

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View of our hotel, The Shanghai Oriental Riverside Hotel, as seen from our <\/strong>night Huangpu River cruise.
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Donghtai Lu<\/strong> \u2013 the antique market, where I soloed in negotiating for a souvenir.<\/p>\n

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The Oriental Pearl TV Tower<\/strong> is a Shanghai icon and it was a homing beacon for us to find our hotel.<\/p>\n

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Hutongs<\/strong> – are back alleyways within the city where residents have lived for hundreds of years.\u00a0 Much revitalization is taking place in the city and these areas are fast disappearing.\u00a0 Because I love history, I was absolutely fascinated by these areas although many just see them as slums and avoid them altogether.<\/p>\n

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The Bund (Zhongshan Lu) is a famous area of Shanghai where there are many, old foreign banks and financial buildings, symbols of the western commercial power that thrived\u00a0 in the heart of colonial Shanghai.\u00a0 The view, as seen from our night cruise on the Huangpu River, was spectacular. The Shanghai Museum, with over 120,000 cultural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}