Pops' China Travel Guide, Shanghai April 2014

The last two nights Pops explored the Shanghai Nightlife. Xintiandi (New Heaven and Earth) is an affluent car-free shopping, eating and entertainment district. The district is composed of an area of reconstituted traditional mid-19th century shikumen ("stone gate") houses on narrow alleys, and some adjoining houses which now serve as book stores, cafes and restaurants, and shopping malls. Most of the cafes and restaurants feature both indoor and outdoor seating. Xintiandi has an active nightlife on weekdays as well as weekends, though it is a more quite setting than loud music and dance places. It is considered one of the first lifestyle centers in China.

Xintiandi is the locatoin of the first congress of the Communist Party of China and is now preserved at the Museum of the First National congress of the Communist Party. Also nearby are the Shikumen Open House Museum an the site of the Provisional Government of the Republic or Korea when Korea was a Japanese colony. 

Now it is a place full of restaurants, bars and places to shop. We ate dinner at the Paulaner Brauhaus from Munich and had some traditional German food. After that we walked around checking out the shops before ending up at TMSK to have a few drinks and listen to the music. We sat outside which most bars and restaurants have outdoor seating. 

Last night we wanted to watch the Liverpool/Manchester City match and found out where the local Liverpool fan club hangs out. We went to the Shanghai Brewery in the French Concession are of Shanghai. Shanghai is a very large city made up of distinct sections. It's amazing to see how many expats you see and to also see how much fun they are having living in shanghai. I want to talk more about that in another post.