{"id":13174,"date":"2013-09-02T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T18:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/?p=13174"},"modified":"2019-11-11T19:20:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T03:20:42","slug":"oodles-of-noodles-in-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/oodles-of-noodles-in-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Oodles of Noodles in Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"
Join me on a food tour in Shanghai where we’ll visit small authentic noodle houses where, with a knowledgeable, Mandarin-speaking guide to inform and order, you can be confident you won’t get lost and will suffer no ill-effects later.<\/p>\n
One steamy July afternoon in Shanghai and four noodle houses, one Shanghai deco coffee house, a single one-stop shopping wet market later, I feel like I have a good handle on the best locals’ favorite noodle houses in this crazy hot city of modern mile-high skyscrapers on one side and historic districts reminiscent of Paris on the other.<\/p>\n
In the French Concession area (Luwan) you catch glimpses of daily life as it has been for decades. This historic district was the domain of the French colonial community up until 1949. The French left their mark on the residential architecture, which boasts such tourist sights as Fuxing Park, the historic Jin Jiang Hotel, the shops along Huaihai Zhong Lu, the Xintiandi development, and the former residences of Sun Yat-sen and Zhou Enlai. {Source: Frommers<\/a>}<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n