Shanghai, touristing with Yi

Today was finally all about Yi & I, it’s been too long since we last saw each other, and it’s always been stolen time that we could spend together, these two weekends are truly special not because of Shanghai, but because of us. 🥹😻 Okay, because of Shanghai too! 😀 We started of with the Jing’an Temple which was my first ever buddhist temple to visit with the twist that it’s in the middle of a 30 million city surrounded by skyscrapers haha. Then we explored the French Concession which is a leftover from the time when Shanghai was a french colony, famous for the skinny building resembling the one in New York. We had some matcha and another tea called Hojicha, both are from Japan, but the food and cuisine in Shanghai is so extremely international that you can basically get any kind of food from any part of the world in top quality and affordable (except if you want to go crazy and spend thousands of euros, you can do that too 😀). We checked out the propaganda museum with posters promoting the Chinese party and its beliefs and we had a little chatGPT session to fully understand why Chinese communism works and resulted in this crazy economical boom while Russia… well, let me stop right there. 😅 At night we went to The Stage, an observatory deck that they just opened and lucky me it the sky was pretty clear for the stunning view. We finished the night with a cocktail in Lieben, a german-inspired cocktail bar. Oh, and I didn’t document the food we had today, but trust me: good stuff. 🤓 I’m genuienly blown away by Shanghai, full of cute neighbourhoods, cafes, bars, it’s massive, but walkable, everyone is riding a scooter or bikes, most cars are electric, so the city is super quite, people are generally happy and content with life, and it’s SO safe, not for a moment you have to worry or watch your back. I didn’t know what to expect, but Shanghai truly surprised me in the most positive way!!! 🥹Read more