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Originally Posted by Badhobz
theres a hermes and a chanel in XTD, you gotta walk around a bit, but its within 2 blocks of the hipster mall you probably went to. arrgh you should have just PM'd me.
Either way, i hope you had fun. its a decent place to visit, but i woudlnt wanna live there. Did you like the food? its pretty similar to tawainese food since so many ex shanghainese fled to taiwain to escape crazy old mao.
i dont find my home town all that enjoyable... too snobby and rich for my taste. cant walk around anywhere without running into these social media cunts taking selifes and vlogs. drives me nuts. And worst of all, i cant do anything anti social like swear at people (love doing this in HK), try to trip old ladies, or basically just push idiots out of the way because of the constant surveillance and the social score, which im sure im in the negatives.
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Haha. Joking aside, Shanghai is quite expensive. For high-end brands like Chanel and Hermes, it's better to just buy them in HK/JP. I was in JP during transit as I wanted to do ANA's The Room again when picking my flights so I got that covered.
All in all, Shanghai is just like any other major cities. You'd have a blast if you have money to blow.
As far as food is concerned, the true Shanghainese cuisine isn't for me. It's too sweet overall where even a dish as simple as stir-fried veggie is sweet. Coming from a TWes perspective, I usually don't mind my food being a tad sweeter as most of the southern TW street foods tend to be on the sweeter side, but Shanghai is on a whole other level of sweetness.