I'm not going to beat around the bush. Guyi Hunan is renowned as the best Hunan restaurant in Shanghai. Of course, they don't take reservations, the service is terrible and the bathrooms stink but there are a couple of nice chandeliers!
The sun broke through the clouds at 7h30 on Saturday morning for the first time in a week. Perfect timing to cook us along the first 3km of the Nike Human 10k. Thanks!
I'm not going to say that a temple is a temple... but... we've been two one or two and I must say that since Kyoto, it's time for a break.
Lu Xun, founder of China's New Literary Movement has many places to his name around the Hongkou area, non more visited than the one-of-a-kind Lu Xun park - next to the Football Stadium.
Around the corner from the Shanghai railway station and across the creek from a compound that could house the entire population of Doncaster, down some forgotten industrial street sits M50; a collection of independent art houses.
I have never been so overwhelmed by clothes before. Oxford street, Bangkok Suann Lumm, TK Maxx and Belz all put together have nothing on Qipu Lu.
Thanks to some expert googlemok we've found an actual running club without a drinking problem(!). They're called YiQiPao - "Together Run". Today we ran at a leisurely 10km/h with a group of 30 along the path of next weekend's Nike 10k. The pace still had me sweating buckets - not sure when my body is going to adjust to running in 28°c.