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| Travel Shangai Like a Local |
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By Jiayang Fan
* Neighborhood to turn your nose up at: Xintiandi.
* Neighborhood to pretend to turn your nose up at while actually secretly loving: former French Concession.
* Neighborhood to proselytize about without ever actually visiting: Hongkou.
* Neighborhood to loudly denigrate without ever leaving: the Bund.
* Famous restaurant a true local wouldn't be caught dead in: The Shanghainese like to try everything at least once!
* Dish to pretend you love: Everything's so good, you don't need to pretend.
* Meal to pretend you love: ditto.
* Where to say you shop: Fuzhou Road, otherwise known as Cultural Street, for books, magazines, and old-timey records, and Shiliupu Material Shopping Market, on Dongmen Road, for bespoke clothing.
* What to complain about: the price of good Western coffee!
* What to cheer about: the soup dumplings at Jia Jia Tang Bao.
* Every bit as good as advertised: Chinese foot-massage parlors.
* Avoid at all costs: smoke-filled yellow cabs. |
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