Scenes and Tourist Sites
Food and Shopping
Shanghai is also known as a paradise for eating and shopping. There are more than 30,000 chain-store-style restaurants serving Chinese and Western-style food and delicacies from other Asian regions. The foreign-style restaurants feature food from more than 30 countries, including Italy, France, Japan, Portugal, and India while the Chinese ones feature food from more than 20 regions of China. The famous restaurant areas are at the City God Temple area, Wujiang Road, Yunnan Road, Huanghe Road, Zhapu Road and Xianxia Road. For shopping buffs, Nanjing Road and Huaihai Road, Super Brand Mall, the Grand Gateway, Plaza 66 and Maison Mode Department Store are the top choices.
City God Temple
The City God Temple area features antique shops, restaurants and teahouses in typical Shanghai style. The famous shopping venues in the area include Huabaolou antique market, Cangbaolou antique and boutique market, Zijincheng basement market, and Shanghai Old Street antique shops. The famous food sold here includes Shanghai’s signature Nanxiang steamed buns. The area is popular with tourists from home and abroad for its wide variety of commodities, special operation mode and good services.
Yunnan Road Food Market
The food street at the crossing of Yan’an and Xizang roads features restaurants serving typical food from Shanghai and Sichuan, Shandong, Jiangsu and other provinces. The choice food includes Beijing roast duck, salty duck, steak and glutinous rice cake, sauce-dipped chicken and hotpot. It is popular with tourist on first visit to Shanghai.
Nanjing Road Pedestrian Mall
The street is known as“China’s No.1 Commercial Street”. It began to boom in the 19th century and was the busiest shopping area in old Shanghai. After China’s liberation in 1949, time-honored shops moved back to the street while modern shopping centers like the No.1 Department Store, Oriental Shopping Center, Wing On Department Store and Landmark Plaza have also sprung up along the street.
Huaihai Road
The road matches the world’s famous shopping streets for its elegance and high-end commodities. It is lined with shops housed in buildings of Chinese, American and Euro- pean styles spanning old and modern eras. Brand-name products are never in short supply here. High-end shop- ping malls like Shanghai Times Square, Printemps-Shanghai, Isetan Department Store and Maison Mode Department Store are popular with shoppers of luxury brands.
Xujiahui
It is the largest shopping and entertainment zone in the city’s southwest. The shopping area is named after Xu Guangqi, a scientist in Ming Dynasty who lived in the area. Covering 1.2 square kilometers, Xujiahui is home to Grand Gateway shopping center, Orient Shopping Center, Pacific Department Store, Huijin Department Store, Metro City and Huilian Department Store. The shopping area also has the biggest number of underground shops in Shanghai.