China 16: East Nanjing Street, Shanghai
27 January 2009
BAM! Welcome to Shanghai. Right across from the large park at the center of the City is Nanjing Xi Lu (East Nanjing Street), that reaches east to the Bund on the river front. It’s kind of like the shopping strip on St-Catherine St. in Montreal, only much longer, denser, pedestrian-only [and full of Chinese]. Felt a lot like Times Square at times, with high-end boutiques, a few hotels, a Häagen Dazs restaurant (the love ice cream here, even at 0°C) and countless Nike stores.
Thanks for all your daily posts! My latest faves are your comments on health for all, and the coziness of high rises from inside. Looking at your pic for China 16 reminds me of walking along Nanjing Street in 1988. My friends and I stopped in at the arena of the Chinese circus. I’d seen Chinese circuses at the Théâtre St-Denis earlier in the 1980s, but I gasped even louder when I saw the death-defying feats in the Motherland itself.