Shaoxing Road

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The most bookish pace
Reasons for recommendation

Du Yuesheng’s mansion, the bookstore Leslie Cheung visited, literary-themed cafes, many publishing houses and bookstores
Shaoxing Road, a short length of 480 meters, combines the essence of a city. The Hanyuan Bookstore that my brother Leslie Cheung visited many years ago, the alleys that Fang Datong walked through when he was a child, the Shaoxing Park filled with old people playing chess, the quiet Luwan Library… Shaoxing Road brings us more than this.
This road, which is full of literature and art everywhere, must be reserved for literati. They take pictures while walking with their cameras to record the scholarly atmosphere under the beautiful scenery. There are also several famous publishing houses hidden here:
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Literature and Art Publishing House, People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, Audio and Video Publishing House… maintain the elegant and solemn style of the 1930s and 1940s, without losing the sense of the times of modern cultural enterprises.
Hanyuan Bookstore Leslie Cheung’s A Dream The famous Hanyuan Bookstore is also located on Shaoxing Road. It became famous because Leslie Cheung once visited it. After entering the door, you will feel as if you are in another world. The huge old-fashioned wooden bookcases, sofas, tables and chairs, old
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The mood is ready to come out. Although it is one of the Internet-famous bookstores in Shanghai, it is not noisy at all. Everyone basically sits and drinks tea and reads, which is very quiet.
Nine and Three Quarters Cafe
The place for Harry Potter fans is opposite to Vienna Cafe. This Harry Potter-themed cafe is a new neighbor on Shaoxing Road, but it has gathered a lot of popularity! Whether it’s the Gryffindor lion logo at the door, the Fat Lady’s portrait, the signatures of Harry Potter characters, or the naughty Sorting Hat, wand and Marauder’s Map, everything here seems to be restored to the real scene in the novel, which can satisfy many Harry Potter fans. All screamed with joy.
Hengshan Road
：The most stylish literary street
Reasons for recommendation:
Hengshan·Heji Lifestyle Bookstore
Hengshan Road was originally an elegant avenue of plane trees in the French Concession. Behind every small western-style building there is an endless legend. Compared with the surrounding small roads with the same petty bourgeoisie sentiments such as Gao’an Road and Yongjia Road, Hengshan Road has dense French plane trees on both sides, reddish-brown crosswalks imitating Taige Road, exotic European garden-style villas and various specialty shops, as well as Many art galleries and spotlight-stealing cats make this road unique.
Hengshan·Heji Lifestyle Bookstore
 
Located in Hengshan Square, Hengshan·Heji is a magazine museum that brings together various lifestyles. It can be regarded as an Eslite or Fangsuo store.
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version. It’s not as big as Eslite or Fangsuo, but it feels very cozy, especially warm in winter. If at the end of the day’s fragmented information intake, you will still be immersed in the long novel on your bedside; if you meet an acclaimed author on Kindle, you will also buy paper books and enshrine them on the bookshelf; if you are watching After watching a movie, if you can trace the story and characters behind it, then this is a good place to end up.
The small feelings, taste of life, and romantic atmosphere of big cities that literary youth like can be found in the Magic City
Urumqi Middle Road:
A new Internet celebrity street that is both popular and fashionable
Reasons for recommendation:
Non-staple food stores that foreigners love to patronize, many new gourmet shops, and a rich atmosphere of life
This short road of more than 300 meters has become the latest Internet celebrity street in the Magic City. It is both urban and western. On both sides of the road shaded by parasol trees, there are many small shops with good quality. Each shop is about 10-20 square meters. Since I was a child, every home is very stylish.
Hongfeng Non-staple Food Store The Western-style Avocado Auntie is walking on Urumqi Middle Road. You may not be interested in this shabby-looking small grocery store, but this small store is quite popular among foreigners! It was also given a fancy name: Avocado Lady. The reason why it has a foreign name is because the avocados sold in the store are cheap and fresh, so everyone nicknamed the proprietress “Avocado Auntie”. The small shop sells all imported ingredients, and you can see ingredient introductions in English everywhere. Many raw ingredients needed for Western food can be purchased here.
Tianai Road
Tianai Road

Walking hand in hand
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The most romantic street
Reasons for recommendation

Love wall, love mailbox
Tianai Road, this road has been popular for decades
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The “most romantic road” shared by all people still maintains its charming posture. There are “love walls” composed of 28 famous Chinese and foreign love poems on both sides of the road. Take a leisurely stroll here and enjoy the rare tranquility in the urban area.
Love Mailbox There is a special love mailbox at the intersection of Tianai Road. Every letter sent from this love mailbox will be stamped with a postmark of love in English, making the recipient feel full of love and love. romantic.
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Dongping Road-Yongkang Road

An old man who lives a different kind of market life
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Garden Villa Maybe you don’t like the tourist-filled Bund, nor the prosperity of Xintiandi, then this road belongs to the old
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The taste of life will surely win your heart. Dongping Road is not as public as Hengshan Road, with continuous European-style houses and open walled courtyards. Many restaurants themselves are old buildings.
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The garden villa is hidden in the courtyard, exuding a melancholy aristocratic temperament. Wandering on Dongping Road, you feel like you are in the old town of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Yongkang Road goes all the way east and turns to Yongkang Road, which is dotted with Shikumen lanes. Both sides are full of small bars, restaurants and cafes decorated with flowers, and local residents still live upstairs. When night falls, there is a different atmosphere here. You can squeeze into bars filled with mostly foreigners to drink, and drink with each other on the curb~
Trendy gourmet fashionistas visit popular internet celebrity stores
Eat, drink and have fun all hidden in alleys of all sizes
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University Road

The most atmospheric food street
Reasons for recommendation

Trendy cafe’s paradise for eating, drinking and entertainment, popular Malatang, craft beer supermarket
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Near the “Easter Egg” in the northeast corner of the city, Fudan University, Tongji University, Shanghai Finance University and other higher education institutions are located next to each other. The rich cultural heritage has created such a university road. Exquisite and bourgeois coffee shops, interesting and fun board game halls, and unique buyer shops…it has already been injected with a title that is both artistic and fun to visit. Various community activities are also held here from time to time, including Christmas markets, charity flea gatherings, graffiti, open-air movies, English corners, etc.~
Lesu Xiao La Tang is an atypical work by a cute girl from the Department of Architecture. It is a space with a sense of design in literature and art, and a sense of design that also exudes a frigid atmosphere. It is really a Mala Tang restaurant. As an atypical Capricorn architect in 1988, she collected the most authentic ingredients and applied the display aesthetics to the extreme. Rough walls + neat display + natural vegetables, everything is perfect!
All the lovers To sweet lovers, you will definitely be pleasantly surprised when you encounter this romantic cafe with a purple facade that looks like you are on the streets of Paris. Each of ALL THE LOVERS’s dessert cakes comes from the unique creative concept of Michelin chefs. Each one has a unique name and has just the right happy taste. During the day, it’s the sweet smell of coffee, and at night, it’s alcohol and music. The waiters are all handsome boys in uniforms.
Panyu Road

The collision of old historical imprints and modern fashion
Reasons for recommendation:
Fairy Tale Elf House, Xingfuli Business District, Sunke Villa, Xinjin Internet Celebrity Store
Panyu Road, which is about 2,000 meters long, gives people a sense of tranquility amidst the bustle. Many houses on the roadside are associated with famous architects, and there is even the former residence of the architect Hudec. There are also happy places here that are comparable to Wukangting, the new Internet celebrity bread FASCINO, the first furniture store in Shanghai that can be compared with MUJI, the Internet celebrity retro coffee shop iliili, as well as various free exhibitions, movie cafes, art galleries, bar……
iliili is like a forest cabin in a fairy tale. When I first saw iliili, I always felt like an elf cabin in a fairy tale forest story. The candy-colored exterior wall is particularly eye-catching. The door is filled with flowers and plants. When you open the small wooden door, you instantly feel like you have entered another world. world. The store is carefully decorated in a retro style, with crown-like chandeliers, hanging hot air balloons, and a harp in the corner. The owner raises cats, sells clothes, built a sunroom, and even built a fountain in the yard!
The first store in the Magic City & the work of design masters from 27 countries. The direction of this store is similar to MUJI and IKEA, but it has its own unique temperament. The home design comes from 82 design masters from 27 countries around the world, and the store’s design master is Italian design master Luca Nichetto, although it seems like such a high-end furniture store, the prices are very affordable! The product display is even more beautiful, with all kinds of metal lines crisscrossing it, making you mistakenly think you are watching an exhibition~
Encountering the Master of Architects at Hudec’s Former Residence Speaking of Hudec, even if you don’t know him, you must be familiar with the buildings he designed: Wukang Building, International Hotel, Grand Guangming Cinema… And at No. 129 Panyu Road is Hudec’s former residence, now the Hudec Memorial Hall . Hudec designed and built it himself. The red tiled roof and black wooden frame immediately make you feel like you have traveled to a “British country town”. Even today, among the high-rise buildings, Hudec’s former residence looks spectacular.
Julu Road
Julu Road
：The most artistic gathering place for eating, drinking and having fun
Reasons for recommendation:
An avant-garde and independent joint community, a design space hidden deep in residential buildings, and the most literary and artistic living area for eating, drinking, and having fun.
As a famous “rich and prosperous” area, Julu Road has a rich atmosphere of life. It also has a literary and artistic accent, but its temperament is different from Wong Kar-wai’s lost style. It is not as sophisticated as Fuxing West Road, but more charming than Wuyuan Road and Xinle Road. old
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The old-fashioned lanes have an unassuming exotic feel, and some people affectionately call them
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“Lan Kwai Fong”. Hudec’s architectural works
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Considered a landmark here, whether it is a classically charming garden house, an English-style villa, or a new Shanghai-style alley, the distinctive old buildings along the line are all old houses with stories!
The entire building of More Than Eat’s 3,000-square-meter large Food Mall is light gray and covered with a large row of bamboos. At first glance, it looks a bit like an art museum. Inside is a very atmospheric gathering place for global food. There are not only imported supermarkets and diversified restaurants, but also the new Internet celebrity bakery LostBakery, LIZZY’S particularly popular fruit energy bowl, and the Japanese proprietress’s small flower shop PRIMA at the entrance, etc. Wait~
have a good time Japanese brunch is a trendy gourmet restaurant with strong Tokyo causal style everywhere inside. If you don’t look carefully, you might think you have entered a trendy restaurant by mistake. You must try their curry chicken omelette rice. The egg skin is fragrant and tender, and it is topped with tomato sauce and milk sauce. Once you take a spoonful, you will find sauce, eggs and rice. It is so satisfying! In addition to catering, they also sell have a good time T-shirts, backpacks and other trendy items.
Encounter a century-old architectural style
The perfect blend of Western style and modern trends
Wukang Road

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A century of memories
Reasons for recommendation:
Wukang Building, former residences of celebrities, Internet celebrity ice cream, Internet celebrity bakery, trendy shops, Wukang Road landmark building - Wukang Building
Wukang Road Stroll along Wukang Road. If you look back casually, you will bump into rows of old bungalows under the sycamore trees. You will pass by a certain historical celebrity across time. In “Lust, Caution”, Wang Jiazhi finally left. The Fukaisen Road mentioned at that moment refers to this place. Only a short length of 1183 meters, this road with many old
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The place where political dignitaries, business elites and cultural celebrities have lived seems low-key and calm.
No. 390 was once the official residence of the Italian Consul General, and after the founding of New China, it was
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The home of the Automobile Group, China’s first Santana sedan was born here;
No. 393 is the former residence of Huang Xing, the revolutionary pioneer of the Republic of China. Sun Yat-sen stayed here many times to discuss the revolution; and the Hunan Villa at the intersection of Wukang Road and Hunan Road was first the private residence of Zhou Fohai, and later Chen Yi and Deng Xiaoping lived here temporarily, and He Zizhen lived here He has lived in seclusion for more than 20 years;
No. 113 is the former residence of Ba Jin, a generation of literary giants. Ba Jin completed “Random Thoughts” here; it is worth mentioning that it is located at Nos. 374 and 376 Wukang Road.
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The old bungalow is a typical representative of the modern life, and it is also
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An epitome of alley culture. The galleries here will hold small exhibitions from time to time, and there are also unique shops. Every corner is a new world…
Nowadays, the overlapping sense of nostalgia and modernity of these specialty shops that are popular in the circle of friends have made this street known as “condensed”
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The “celebrity road with a century-old history in modern times” is filled with new vitality
WIYF Ice Cream It is said that if you have not tried the ice cream here, you have not come to Wukang Road.
“What is your flavor” is the full name of this store. This internet celebrity shop has a long queue almost every day, creating a whirlwind of internet celebrity ice cream in Shanghai. There are not many ice cream flavors in the store. The flavors served every day are written on the small blackboard outside. You can smell the freshly baked milky aroma of the cone near the counter, and you can still feel the freshness of the heat when you hold it in your hand.
Farine Bakery This French bakery has been popular for several years. It is said that “all
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The “best croissant” is here. The croissant is the signature of the store, as well as the banana chocolate tart, the dripping raspberry tart and the delicious pink fruit cake, paired with a freshly ground coffee. Perfect match! There is no WIFI here. It is said that we hope that customers who do not know each other can chat with the people around them while enjoying the food.
Yuyuan Road:
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life aesthetics district
Reasons for recommendation:
Wutong, Xiaoyanglou, a teahouse hidden in the city, Times Art and Humanities Bookstore, and literary snack shop
Yuyuan Road Walking along Yuyuan Road, you often feel like time and space are intertwined. Stretching from the westernmost end in twists and turns, the number of alleys has been arranged to more than 1,600. Each alley has countless homes and parasol trees that have grown for more than half a century. Beautiful old-fashioned buildings of all kinds are lined up in rows, such as Wang Mansion, Yan Family Garden, Qishan Village… there are 25 listed outstanding historical buildings alone. This road, which seems to be stuck in history, is slowly being transformed into a cross-border lifestyle aesthetic neighborhood that integrates art, design, humanities, and entertainment~
Long Time No Read A new place for art and humanities bookstores
From Dukou Bookstore and Hanyuan Bookstore, which are familiar to young people in Shanghai, to Pubulan Picture Bookstore and Taofen Western Bookstore, which specialize in unique fields, as well as Hengshan Collection and Eslite Bookstore, which were newly opened last year. Long Time No Read is an urban era art and humanities bookstore. What is amazing is the curved bookshelf that is more than 40 meters long and filled with two walls of books. If you love art, you will surely find many exclusive limited editions here. Art albums, you may also meet long-admired painters, new and active artists, forward-thinking critics or popular directors and screenwriters.
Of course, these are not the only unique streets in the magical city. At only 800 meters
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You can find the former residence of Mr. Zhang Leping, the “Father of Sanmao”, the home of Zhu Hengqing who bought a lane for his daughter as a dowry, and the Gallery Cafe where Ruan Jingtian visited.
Houses lined up row upon row
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Capture the street scenes in lanes, stumble across all kinds of interesting hidden coffee shops, and see the unique
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trends and culture
In a very French style
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Local cuisine restaurant with alley flavor,
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FOUNT, a Japanese restaurant opened by image ambassador Hu Ge
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Dramatic Arts Center location
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On the way, you will encounter various mansions, as well as video art museums, various trendy shops, mixed-race restaurants and bars, and the famous Marienbad Café…
There are still endless cafes to visit. There are more than 3,000 cafes now. I think I am in love with them.
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