I just returned from an eight-day work trip to Shanghai, China. Luckily I had some time to check out the sites in the largest city (by population) in the world (more than 24 million people as of 2013). Here are some of photos of some of the interesting things I saw. Hover for captions and click for a larger slideshow view.
Skyscrapers in the Lujiazui financial trade zone
Cab drivers keep tea handy
Braised abalone
Cheap advertising
A memorable URL, at least in one sense
Setting off firecrackers in the middle of the road
Public art
Sizzling eggplant
Butt toning ad
That’s quite a machine…
Celebrating the World Cup with football field pizzas
Fried eels
Home Boy Scarecrow
Fruit juice in IV drip bags labeled “Blood”
Lillian Bakery egg tarts
Huangpu River and The Bund
A view of the Lujiazui financial trade zone. The tall shadowy skyscraper, the Shanghai Tower, is still under construction and is set to open in 2015. It will have 121 floors at 2,073 feet tall.
Maintaining traditional details with growing modernity
In a city of 24 million, most people live in places like this
Employees participate in morning group exercise
More roads for more cars
Refreshing
A man walking backwards (a.k.a. “retrowalking”)
Monastery cat
Endless construction everywhere you look
Delicious fried fish, bones and all
The showers in western hotels have glass walls (so you can “watch tv” I guess?)
Wide load
A suggestion for visitors from the General Brigade of Security of Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Public Security: “Follow no strangers to the fun places”
Harbin beer
Baijiu, a sorghum-based liquor also known as “white lightning”
Typical Shanghai traffic
Marketing McDonalds with glamor
Matcha latte
Anthropologizing 