Trip Moments Recommendations
1886 German Restaurant by The Bund
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Location: 1886德国汽车餐厅(外滩13号店)
The 1886 German 🇩🇪bar and restaurant 👩🍳is a popular spot located opposite the bund sightseeing area. It’s just a 2 minutes walk away from the place . The restaurant has some unique features such as the seatings which are designed like car seats . Prices for drinks on average is about 70 RMB whiles for main courses 120 RMB on average. #shanghai #shanghaidelicacies #instatravel #trip #goodfoods
Popular ice cream place in Shanghai
Address - 中国上海市浦东新区东育路500弄1-9号前滩太古里木区L1层
Ambiance/Facilities - The place is very cool and has a nice surrounding. A popular destination for desert lovers . It is part of the ice cream museum. Usually closes at 7:45
Highlights - Delicious ice cream , Drinks
Avg. Price per Person - 35 RMB
Rating - 8/10
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The old streets of Shanghai
There are so many beautiful, old streets in Shanghai with authentic, ancient buildings. On every street you can try amazing Chinese food and of course buy souvenirs. Everything is of course also worth seeing at night with all the lights around the buildings and rich night life that Shanghai offers. Many streets don't open shops very early in the morning so it's worth coming at lunch time and not earlier or just at dinner time. Definitely worth discovering.
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Lingang quest: Dishuihu’s sculpture park
Lingang new city is located in southeastern Shanghai, rapidly developing into a gorgeous and beautiful city surrounded by green areas, Dishui lake, canals, wetlands and Nanhuixincheng beach.
If you are going around the Dishui lake you might find very areas of shadow (desperately, in a very hot summer morning) and rest. This scenic spot is the best in all Dishui Lake China Masters Theme Sculpture Park.
This spot gives you the whole view of the lake and a nice view of Dishuihu West Island (although is under construction and we were not able to enjoy it that much). It has a public bathroom, extremely important if you’re walking around this area.
We found lots of people taking pictures, eating ice creams and children playing freely. This is the major shadow spot, so most people stays around here. This morning was a little too hot.
📍 Nanhui Xinchengzhu Urban District Dishuihu, Pudong
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Lingang quest: A kiwi rest by the lake
Lingang new city is located in southeastern Shanghai, rapidly developing into a gorgeous and beautiful city surrounded by green areas, Dishui lake, canals, wetlands and Nanhuixincheng beach.
If you are going around the Dishui lake you might find very areas of shadow (desperately, in a very hot summer morning) and rest. Kiwiana restaurant it’s not only located within the Lingang New City Main Urban Area City Park (for some reason, this area has a very long name and it’s divided in units), but has this amazing view of the lake.
This New Zealand style restaurant is an amazing option to explore, restaurant architecture and ambience is beautiful. Also, it’s located among the area of sculptures, so you can go for a walk after
your meal. We didn’t eat here because of time, and My companion’s reluctance to try foreign food. However, I’ll definitely will be coming back soon. Food looks delicious.
📍 Nanhui Xinchengzhu Urban District Dishuihu, Pudong
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Songjiang quest: Super spicy
Wangxiang Yuan is a Hunan cuisine restaurant located in Wanda Plaza, Songjiang district. There are six Xiangxiaodi Hunan flavor Yirenshi restaurants in Shanghai, seems like this franchise initiated in 2002.
One of the most popular things about this restaurant is the lady in traditional Hunan dress inviting you in. This Hunan food 🥘 restaurant has a nice calm ambience to visit with family or groups, you have many fresh vegetables outside for presentation.
Although Sichuan food is known to be spicy 🌶, Hunan food may be even spicier 🌶 🌶 , with a bit of sour from the vinager. This restaurant aims to bring the experience of Hunan into Shanghai. Definitely try the fish dishes, they are very popular and delicious.
If you can’t manage spice, be very careful about what you order.
📍 Guangfulin Road 658 Longwanda Square 3F (Jinguangxing Road), Songjiang
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Fancy Asian food in Shanghai Centre
Portman’s Boteman in West Nanjing Road is a fancy restaurant located in East building of the Shanghai Centre, next to the waterfall wall garden.
This restaurant mostly focuses on seafood 🦞, bringing together dishes from Japan, China, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore in an explosion of flavors. As amazing as it sounds, it’s quite expensive too. Be prepared to expend a few hundreds in a small meal. The meat 🥩 dishes look amazingly good. Drinks and cocktails have a nice presentation.
There are few good dessert options, too. However, as delicious as they look I’m not willing to pay around 100RMB just in a small dessert dish.
📍 Shanghai Centre, No.1376, Nanjing West Road The Portman Ritz-Carlton Shanghai Building 1, Jing'an
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Share a gelato with a fluffy polar bear
In Shanghai Centre, there’s a particular spot that projects cuteness. Stephanie’s gelato 🍧 and coffee spot is perfect for a hot summer day. And you get to sit down and share your ice cream with a huge stuffed polar bear 🐻❄️.
There are two stations, both connected by a door. Here you can chose the type of ice cream 🍨 🍦, gelato 🍧or popsicle you want, and toppings. All of them looking quite delicious.
Just try to eat it fast, these summer days are melting everything very fast, and being outdoors doesn’t help. Nevertheless, this spot is quite calm, so you can enjoy your sweet delight and take your time enjoying the beauty of each day.
📍 Shanghai Centre, No.1376, Nanjing West Road Floor 1 (Nearby Xikang Road), Jing'an
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Baguettes & donuts in a busy day
Baker & Spice is a bakery and coffee shop franchise I Shanghai. This particular one is Shanghai Centre branch. Ambience is nice and relaxing, perfect for remote working. If not, just come to read a book by yourself, enjoying your afternoon coffee in the terrace.
This bakery has many bread and pastry options, also full meal dishes like pasta and noodles. Many different sweet and spicy bread to chose from. Cakes are cute but seemed too sweet for my taste. I did bought a baguette 🥖 to go, always perfect with cheese cream.
My raspberry filled donut was delicious. Too much sugar in the outside, sticking everywhere (which I clearly didn’t like it), but the sour filling made me ignore this detail and enjoy my afternoon delight. Coffee was ok, another blend like many others in Shanghai.
📍 Shanghai Centre, No.1376, Nanjing West Road Floor 1 (Nearby Xikang Road), Jing'an
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Charcoal drinks?
A Charcoal is a gorgeous (and expensive) Japanese restaurant located in Shanghai Centre. This restaurant has a simple but elegant ambience, perfect for a romantic date or a meeting that requires privacy.
Menus are in English, Japanese and Chinese. So many seafood 🦞 and meat 🥩 options to chose is hard to decide. Also, you will spend minimum 350 RMB in a dinner, of two dishes and no drinks. Drinks are mostly sold in bottle, so add a couple more hundreds. Presentation of the dishes is gorgeous, mostly focused on wangyu barbecue.
Although everything looked delicious, I went for a simple beer and a daifuku (also called daifukumochi, popular Japanese cakes made from a chewy glutinous rice). Very simple but also very good. Not sure if I’ll come back again, too expensive for me.
📍 Shanghai Centre, No.1376, Nanjing West Road Dongfeng Floor 1 Unit 122, Jing'an
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Curry & pho for a summer evening
If you want to try an authentic Vietnamese restaurant (as they claim) in Shanghai, Saigon Mama is a delicious option you should try. Ambience is charming, staff is nice and seem to be happy in their work.
My order was a chicken yellow curry 🍛. Very tasty and right amount of spicy (be sure you tell the cook how much/little spice you can manage). Bowls are huge, yet my plate looked a bit empty (or maybe I just wanted more). Pho 🍜 dishes are the most popular among the other clients, and delivery orders.
A detail the surprised me, was the coconut 🥥 over my rice. Give the meal a nice taste with the curry, not sure if this is just presentation or it’s common in Vietnamese food. In general, My experience here was quite nice.
📍 Shanghai Centre, No.1376, Nanjing West Road Floor 1 (Garage Entrance, Nearby Xikang Road), Jing'an
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Columbia O: Cute cakes by the pool
Columbia Circle is a heritage building complex located in Yan’an area. You can find here many cafés and restaurants.
In swimming pool building, you can find a cute coffee shop. Inside or outside, Deux Amour (Two Love) coffee shop has a nice ambience and adorable decoration. Stuffed animal faces in the window actually match some of the cakes 🧁 they offer.
Coffee is ok, but nothing beats to enjoy an outdoor coffee next to a wonderful view, specially during a warm and rainy summer sunset. This place is very popular among couples visiting Columbia Circle.
📍 Yan'an West Road 1262 Haonan 90 Meters, Changning
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Hidden architectural gem: Columbia O
Columbia Circle is a heritage building complex located in Yan’an area. This was the remodeled old mansion compound of Sun Ke, designed by architect 🇭🇺 Laszlo Hudec in 1930. Swim pool building was designed in 1920’s (American Club House). In 2016, this complex became what is now: a gorgeous hidden gem 💎 in Shanghai.
You can find here many cafés and restaurants. Some of them require reservation before visiting. Definitely a gorgeous place to visit any weekend.
📍 Yan'an West Road 1262 Haonan 90 Meters, Changning
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Columbia O: Spain taste
We went exploring a new area of Shanghai we heard so much about: Columbia Circle. This is a heritage building complex located in Yan’an area. Near the pool area, you can find several cafés, restaurants and beautiful spots to get pictures.
Pirata 🏴☠️ is a Mediterranean style restaurant where, if you are lucky to grab a spot, you can enjoy a nice glass of wine or a beer in romantic dinner by the pool. Food is very good, although the tostadas/toast are expensive for small serve. Ambience is nice, music is mostly Spanish (trova).
If you want to eat paella or any cazuela 🥘 dish, you need to wait 45 minutes while it gets done. Therefore, this is not a place to visit if you are hungry. Iberian ham is delicious. Beer 🍺 it’s a bit bitter than you may expect in China. My recommendation is to try the paella with red wine 🍷.
📍 Yan'an West Road 1262 Haonan 90 Meters, Changning
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Columbia O: Japanese Food
We went exploring a new area of Shanghai we heard so much about: Columbia Circle. Columbia Circle is located in Yan’an area.
Heiseiya is a Chinese version of a typical izakaya. Perfect for a meal or spare your time drinking in Japanese styled restaurant. Decoration resembles any izakaya, food tries to be authentic (not completely, according to my Japanese friend) and music are old Japanese songs from the 70’s-80’s.
During our visit the restaurant was super crowded, we had to wait a few minutes while a table became available. Food was quite nice, specially the fish and the rolls. There’s no sushi 🍣 or many traditional dishes available, either. Nevertheless, their liquor many is quite complete. A bottle of any umeshu (wine plum) is 300RMB, and it’s quite big.
Dishes are affordable, some are small but others are big. Better to come in company, to share a few dishes. In case you decide to come alone, you can sit in entrance bar to enjoy your food and drinks 🍺 on a very Japanese style.
📍 Yan'an West Road 1262 Haonan 90 Meters, Changning
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Songjiang quest: Brunch
A beautiful place to have brunch in Songjiang area is A++ Bistro. Located next to Fuyue hotel is an easy place to spot, although some renovations outside may not make it so interesting at first glance, just wait to go inside and taste the food! This restaurant is supposed to be 3 floors, but I guess our timing was bad.
Either for a coffee ☕️ , spaghetti 🍝 or some ribs, brunch options get better and better if you decide to go with company. More people implies more dishes you get to try. Not a big fan of drinking my coffee while eating ribs (that’s for digestion after a meal), but you can change the coffee for juice or go with water.
Some of the salads 🥗 look quite tasty. Meat 🥩 cuts are big, perfect for meat lovers. Pasta and roasted chicken is also delicious. They have some nice dessert options too but we didn’t try it.
📍 Rongyue Road No.178 Floor 1-3, Songjiang
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Songjiang quest: Saizeriya
As many knows, Saizeriya is a common Italian-like restaurant franchise in Beijing and Shanghai. Originally from Japan (this is new information for me 😯), Saizeriya can be found in many countries now, including China and Singapore.
This Saizeriya branch in Wanda Plaza was beautiful. You can find almost same food in any Saizeriya restaurants, however this branch was out of the ordinary. Inner decoration was fancy, even had a romantic ambience. Perfect for sharing a glass of wine with your seafood 🦞 pasta, to visit with your family or your group of friends.
Saizeriya seeks to provide “good food at affordable prices”, reason why it’s the favorite location for many (specially students). Although, I was surprised to see how my Chinese friends are not such of big fan of this franchise mostly tagged for them as “foreign food”. Well, foreigners love the open drink bar 🥤. 😂
📍 Wanda Plaza, No.658, Guangfulin Road, Songjiang
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Songjiang quest:Never’s enough ice cream
DQ Ice Cream shop is located in third floor of Wanda Plaza. So many delicious options for coffee, cold drinks, ice cream 🍨 and cakes 🍰. And way more affordable than other ice cream/cake shops around.
Cakes are gorgeous, extremely sweet (for my taste). Chocolate cake and vainilla ice cream is an amazing blend. Some tropical fruit options look very refreshing for this summer hot days, specially mangoes 🥭 and coconuts🥥 . Just try to eat fast so your ice cream won’t melt 🍦.
This particular shop has one of the nicest decoration I have seen for a DQ shop. The Shanghai sign using paper ice cream cups was very creative.
📍 Guangfulin Road 658 Long No.668 Wanda Shopping Mall Floor 3 3027 Store No., Songjiang
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Songjiang quest: Shop & Tech
During my week in Songjiang, had the pleasure to visit Wanda Plaza branch. This shopping 🛍 mall complex is located in Gold Street, and gives you a fancy and high tech look you might be missing in your summer.
Day or night, Wanda Plaza is a must visit location in Songjiang. Probably, the biggest shopping center in the area. So many fancy clothing stores, jewelry, children areas to play and have fun as family. Most restaurants are located in third floor, and you have so many great options to chose from Korean, Thai and food from different areas of China.
The big screens in the roof are captivating, the cars expo in F1 and even some area where young people just show their skills in urban dance. There are some amusement games or stands either inside or outside Wanda Plaza, depends of the day you can see it at it’s best expression.
I can assure you, not a place where you can get bored.
📍 No.658, Guangfulin Road, Songjiang
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Songjiang quest: Thai-Vietnam cuisine
During my week in Songjiang, had the pleasure to visit Wanda Plaza. So many stores and shops to enjoy!! This shopping 🛍 mall gives you a fancy and high tech look you might be missing in your summer.
Tai Cook is an amazing restaurant in 3F, food is nice, and comes in cuter presentation than most Thai restaurants. Ambience is calm, perfect for a romantic date or groups (bigger tables have traditional looking decoration that seems to be more comfortable than any other table).
Food is great. I liked the big offer of dishes available in the menu, allows you to try new things. Plates are big, so careful if you order too much food. Curries and Thai rice is always the best option. Once you arrive, you get courtesy shrimp 🦐 crisps, that are better quality than the ones you get I other restaurants.
As for me, I always like to try the rolls. This particular dish had a great combination of mushroom and shrimp, with a very nice presentation. Definitely will come back soon.
📍 Wanda Plaza, No.658, Guangfulin Road, Songjiang
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Songjiang quest: Ice cream drinks
During my week in Songjiang, had the pleasure to visit Wanda Plaza. So many stores and shops to enjoy!! This shopping 🛍 mall gives you a fancy and high tech look you might be missing in your summer.
Haagen-Dazs shop in 1F was extremely nice, with a fancy ambience and delicious options for this summer. You can chose between a Mojito cocktail 🍹/bubble tea with liquor, an ice coffee (also resembled bubble tea), several cold cakes 🎂 🍰 or many ice cream options you can chose from (and select your own style).
My “Mojito” was quite tasty and refreshing. Cakes are absolutely gorgeous, look like art you don’t want to eat. Ice cream cones are also beautiful, but feel like they are going to melt before you’re able to eat them. Specially during a hot July day.
📍 Wanda Plaza, No.658, Guangfulin Road F F1 1038, Songjiang
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Songjiang quest: Craving for pizza?
Closer to Songjiang downtown you find Shihuite Chengyuan Commercial Plaza. Papa John’s Pizza is located in 1F (do not confuse with B1), although is easy to spot from the street due to its “Pizza” sign. Even if you are not thinking in pizza, you can’t stop thinking about it once you see it.
Papa John’s is a popular franchise worldwide, nevertheless many people think food is same in every restaurant or country. Well, is not. This particular restaurant in bigger than others you can find in Shanghai, probably the only pizza restaurant in the area. Songjiang branch offers different pizzas 🍕, fried chicken 🍗 , spaghetti 🍝, BQQ options, some pizza quesadillas (pic) and most meals are a Chinese adaptation of Italian food.
Despite the popular name, like will happen with many restaurants in China, try to think in this restaurants like a gastronomic fusion. If you open your mind, you will realize food different, and quite good. This place had little people inside, but many order by delivery. Also, this particular restaurant has a small section for children.
📍Rongmei Road No.518, Songjiang
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Songjiang quest: JF Hotel
Songjiang district is a bit so know and yet such beautiful district in Shanghai. Local government has invested a lot in city embellishments and this area is not the exception. This area is supposed to be the historical origin of Shanghai, land of rice and fish. If you want to stay here and explore, there are a few nice hotel options for you (and prices range can be very different). Additionally, not all hotels receive foreigners and you are required to be very careful where you make your booking.
Jinfeng International Hotel is definitely a great choice. Spacious, calm environment and palace-like decoration makes you feel like a queen/king 👑. My room was VIP (4th pic), with a deluxe bed. Super comfortable, nevertheless I will complain a bit about cleaning. Room and bathroom are big, with lot of space in closets.
You can chose to work from bed, the elegant sofa or the desk. Additionally, there is a nice resting space in lobby area. Wifi is open, and fast (big plus). Breakfast is included, buffet are is located in B1. They have salad, eggs, noodle soup, fried noodles or porridge available. Not many options, but better than other hotels I had visited. No coffee, either.
📍 No.237, Rongmei Road, Songjiang
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Songjiang quest: Iced drinks in summer
Songjiang district is a bit so know and yet such beautiful district in Shanghai. Local government has invested a lot in city embellishments and this area is not the exception. This area is supposed to be the historical origin of Shanghai, land of rice and fish (and you definitely can find many seafood 🦞 restaurants here).
This summer ☀️ mornings have proven to be hotter than any other day of the year. My visit to Coffee & Milk after a bike ride was extremely refreshing (although they could hurry a bit more in preparing the drink 🥤 before I passed out of insolation). Staff doesn’t speak English at all.
This drinks-only shop offers a variety of coffee drinks, milk teas and bubble teas, hot or cold. Coffee & Milk is located besides the Fuyue Hotel, in same building complex area so it’s easy to spot from the distance (but hard to find in maps). Drinks are quite nice, my option went for a passion fruit lemonade drink that made wonders with my thirst.
📍 Rongyue Road 208 Long, Songjiang
Shanghai China
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Night stroll in Xintiandi area
Cor! is a super cute coffee shop ☕️ in Fuxing Middle Rd. Location seems quite small, but it’s actually spacious inside. You can either sit in a small terrace enjoying the hot summer night, or inside to keep the heat away (or run from the rain). Location is a bit difficult to find, as entrance is just a door along the street. However, door is tiny so the magic stays inside.
Ambience is quite relaxing, gotta love the bird houses hanging outside with the plants 🪴 . Decoration inside is also cute. Better to go during afternoon or evening, outside decoration can’t be fully appreciated during the night.
Must say, this is not an ordinary coffee shop, as you can also get wine, many dessert 🧁 and savory snacks, and cold drinks (coffee based drinks and cocktails 🍹 too). Decoration of drinks and desserts is super cute. Seems like a very good option for a quick brunch.
📍 Fuxing Middle Road No.559, Huangpu
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Foodie Diaries: Ice cream & cocktails
RIO is a Shanghai’s produced cocktail drinks, known as alcopop wine. Alcopop are drinks have 1-7% of alcohol amount and resemblance soft drinks. RIO cocktails 🍹 cost around 8 to 15 RMB, and are made with vodka, gin, white rum or whiskey, and a fruity flavored drink. These drinks are very popular among the Chinese youth, specially girls.
RIO Lab is located in Xintiandi area, has a big variety of soft drinks, bubble teas (with and without alcohol), flavored cocktails (additional to those you can find in the stores), smoothies and ice cream 🍨!! Additionally, cakes 🧁 look absolutely gorgeous.
RIO Lab is supposed to be all about innovation. The new popular drinks prolly become new mass produced, with odd flavors like yogurt drink+vodka cocktail you can find in stores. If you haven’t try it, it’s actually very yummy 🍦 🍹 .
Personally, I had tried in the past the mix of vainilla ice cream, red wine and frozen fruits. Therefore, I am very open to try as many ideas as they show, because there’s a high possibility it’s going to be delicious 🤤.
📍 Fuxing Middle Road 507 Long No.3 Floor 1 Unit 102, Huangpu
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Sunday night BBQ in Xintiandi
As you know, I’m a big fan of bbq restaurants. Chuxiaoge in Fuxing Plaza (Soho) in Xintiandi is a nice finding. Relatively cheap, tasty and open.
Something funny about Shanghai is the difficulty to find restaurants open at night, despite the fact this city never sleeps. There are not many restaurants open after 9pm, specially on a rainy weekend. Therefore, if you are in the area you shoul definitely grab a bite here!
Staff are quite nice, ambience is inviting. Not sure how crowded will be during the day. Beer drinks are good, specially with bbq. Meat and seafood 🦞 sticks are very tasty. Chuxiaoge additionally have rice 🍚 and noodles 🍜 options, if you feel bbq sticks are not enough.
They have a pear soup 🥣 that may not look so good, but it’s very recommended. Same with the duck.
📍 Madang Road SOHO Fuxing Square No.388 Room E101-E102, Huangpu
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Craving for donuts? Come to DD!
There are few Dunkin Donuts restaurants in Shanghai, my favorite is DD branch in Wujiaochang (Pacific Forest City). It’s a small store and barely have couple of chairs to sit down, but it’s my ‘must go’ every time I’m in the area.
They have an offer of 6 donuts (your choice) per 56RMB. Mostly, I just take my favorite (blueberry filled) donut to go, with a coffee to sit down in whatever place I feel like. It’s about posibilities, and exploring a huge city like Shanghai.
All Dunkin’s donuts are delicious. Normally, they add seasonal specialties. For spring, a strawberry 🍓 donut, and for summer a banana 🍌 peach 🍑 donut. Some of them are a bit too sweet for my taste, but the strawberry sourness or the banana filled with cream star ⭐️ are worthy for those days of sugar craving. Chocolate 🍫 ones are too sweet for me, but also recommended by many.
On the other hand, coffee is quite regular. General blend you can find anywhere in Shanghai. However, some of the ice drinks are quite nice. Try the coconut 🥥 options, always refreshing for summer days.
📍 Songhu Road No.199 B1 Pacific Forest City No. B-12-2, Yangpu
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Rainbow of candies, nuts & dry food
Mishimiao is a deliciously colorful candy shop from Taiwan. There are few branches in different areas of Shanghai. This small shop is located inside FOR shopping mall in Nanyangjing Road.
Mishimiao sells you whatever you want with price per 50g. Colorful hard candy 🍭 🍬 and gummies, sweet and sour. Dry nuts 🌰, mushrooms 🍄, durian, bananas 🍌 and other mixed vegetables/fruits. Also, package candy and marshmallows.
On the other side of the store, you find different types of dry meat, processed fruit and conserved meat/fruits. Very popular in China as snacks or added to some dishes. Personally, not very fond of these products. Some are tasty, but others leave a taste in my mouth that’s hard to wash away.
My favorite for many years are the shark gummies, and some of the worm gummies. These have the perfect contrast between sweet and sour. Try not to buy many each time as takes me a while to eat them. For others, with no self control over candies, beware! 😂
📍 No.2108, Yanggao Middle Road, Pudong
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Aromas that capture your senses
Wedome Bakery is a small bakery shop in Yanggao Middle Rd, easy to ignore but its aroma will make you come back on your steps to get a bite (even as take out if you’re already full). Hard not to do so, for baguette 🥖 lovers like my friend and I.
In this bakery, you can find cakes 🎂, sandwiches 🥪 , croissants 🥐, any type of bread 🥯, desserts 🧁 , biscuits and cookies 🍪. Although, in this visit most of the products available where salty (even better for me). Wraps looked so good! You can see how good is a particular product when you see how empty is the plate they were in (full of crumbs) ➡️ check the chocolate cake (pic 1) and the tarts (pic 3).
Apparently, you can order (request) them to make you a cake from their selection, and they will deliver it to you. I found appealing to see how their kitchen is under glass, so you can see the bakers preparing the sandwiches or baking in front of you.
📍 No.2108, Yanggao Middle Road Tianwu Space Building A F1 No. A110, Pudong
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