Location: Old Town
Top Things to do in Old Town
Top Restaurants in Shanghai
- 1. Epicure on 45
- 2. Scena (The Ritz-Carlton Shanghai Pudong)
- 3. Flair Rooftop
- 4. Shanghai Haidilao Hot Pot (Zhangyang Road)
- 5. Jin Xuan Chinese Restaurant (The Ritz-Carlton Shanghai, Pudong)
- 6. Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet
- 7. Efes Restaurant Turkish & Mediterranean Cuisine
- 8. Tock's - A Montreal Deli
- 9. Goodfellas
- 10. The 1515 West, Chophouse & Bar
What to do and see in Old Town, Shanghai Region: The Best Shopping
The largest city in China is also its most cosmopolitan, offering visitors a chance to experience the past, present, and future all at once. The Huangpu River splits Shanghai into two districts: Pudong and Puxi. The Pudong skyline looks like it was ripped from the Jetsons, with the bulbous Oriental Pearl TV and Radio Tower looking a bit like a two headed lollipop. On the Puxi side, you can walk the Bund riverside district to get a taste of old Shanghai.
Restaurants in Shanghai
1. Fenghui Pearl
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 25 reviews
Different than Pearl Jade Exhibition, but it is very close. You have to pass this pearl shop to get to the Pearl Jade Exhibition Shop
2. Yuyuan Bazar
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 804 reviews
Yuyuan is a bustling marketplace set in an old Chinese neighborhood with traditional architecture and shops selling everything from dumplings to kitsch. A great place for people-watching and picking up Chinese souvenirs, and close to the nearby Yuyuan Gardens.
Reviewed By sunitak196 - Bengaluru, India
It takes you back 100 years! Bustling with the vibrancy of a souk. This place is a photographers delight. Tht buildings are beautiful and the alleyways lead to more quaint areas. The shopping is bonafide. Good stuff. The experience is fabulous. There's an amazing koi pond with the largest I've ever seen.
3. Fuyoumen Commercial Building
4. Yuyuan Old Street
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 1,329 reviews
Reviewed By LoveTravelling1116 - Singapore, Singapore
Yuyuan old street has successfully preserved its architecture in distinctly Chinese style while constantly pulled in endless streams of tourists to visit. Its vast space and countless number of stores prove irresistible for souvenirs-hunting shopaholics, given its wide variety of fanciful memento to possibly acquire. This is also one of the most vibrant old streets where shopping mingles with eating, thereby creating the perfect experience to unwind. Bargaining skills are highly sought after if one desires to purchase gifts at the most reasonable price. It is not uncommon for most shop keepers to sell at extravagant rate, but only to reduce it to more than 50%. Non-Chinese speaking visitors might be at a disadvantage as most sellers are Chinese and probably have little to no command of English language. My personal experience at a liuli shop where I bought two liuli glass mini Buddha (pink and blue) confirmed that without haggle, I would be literally “cheated”. They finally offered me discount of up to 80%, to my disbelief. I was clearly elated with both the deserved price and the desired possession. This probably revealed how desperate shop keepers are to quickly sell off their products when there is a customer who truly wants it. As a vegetarian, I was relief that Yuyuan has a mouth-watering and famous restaurant called Songyue Lou that dedicates to only Chinese vegetarian cuisine. This saves us from hunger in the midst of our shopping mission. All in all, it is highly recommended to visit Yuyuan old street even with a hectic travel schedule as it could prove a big miss if one skips it entirely. Half a day might be too rush to cover every corner of the street, and beware that it is easy to get lost in these intertwined walkways. The easiest way to travel here is to alight at Yuyuan Garden train station and to walk for around 10-15 minutes to reach the main street.
5. Yuyuan Baihuo Tianyu Building
6. Yuyuan Fashion Street
7. H&M Fangbang Middle Road Shop
8. Cangbaolou
9. Jiang Yin Road flower Market
Overall Ratings
3.0 based on 1 reviews
10. Hong Kong names Mall
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2 reviews
