Morning reading | the fireworks of the alleys on the North Bund

The "City Bazaar" recreates the life of the old Shanghai alley into modern buildings, and the thick smoke and fire are pouring in.

Listen to young friends said, Raffles City North Bund is fun, the second basement floor is the city market, the memory of the Shanghai lane scene in the 1980s and 1990s, the small street interest is presented one by one in front of the eyes, let us cross, return, experience the city pyrotechnics of that year, the modern commercial building into the nostalgic installation, the scenery into the old Shanghai snack street of the new creativity, the main retro trend of the food court has become a new idea of the shopping mall catering scene, but also become the highlight of Shanghai and tourists gathered, but also triggered the Shanghai Internet celebrity punch card frenzy, It is said that on the first day of the opening of Raffles City, the passenger flow reached 300,000.

Enter the entrance of the "City Bazaar", see the signboard "City Mart City Market", "North Bund Tilan Bridge", "Food Theme Block", and several interesting sentences: "Where there are foodies, there is a city market", "Super City Bazaar Sideline Food Company", "There is no food market in the triangle", "The first restaurant of the City Market in Hongkou District"... I smelled the aroma of lard from the shallot cake, which was the familiar taste of old Shanghai. Here is the historical style of the Tilanqiao neighborhood, the road next to the old house in the small street lane is curved, and when you look up, all the equipment, pipes, wires, and lamps on top of the large space are clearly decorated, a kind of "retro" decoration style of the industrial revolution era that is now popular. Raffles City Market uses old objects that have been demolished and demolished, not whitewashed, not painted, and the gray and dark red main colors of the original masonry, wood and cement components just reflect the natural beauty elements of Shanghai in that era.

On the side of the road, there are several simulated people selling white orchids, gardenias, selling tea eggs, selling newspapers and magazines, so that the elderly can resonate, all the way, Shen Dacheng dim sum shop, Hongkou Second Grain Store, Fresh Ribs, Barber Shop, Small Restaurant, Qibao Pipe Old Lady Stinky Tofu, Qibao Old Street Tangyuan, Tilanqiao Old Stall Head Onion Oil Cake, Wu Maoxing Benbang Noodle Restaurant, Triangle Vegetable Farm, Qibao Old Street Square Cake, Xiao Shaoxing Chicken, Little Jinling Duck, Gang Xi Tea Stall, Taikang Fresh Meat Mooncake, Lane Tang Food Stall, Jade Buddha Temple Vegetarian Food, Big Pot Spring, Tourists want to eat everything they want, such as popsicles, ice cream, braised meat noodles, raw fried steamed buns, wontons, tangyuan, fried noodles, pastries, Yangchun noodles, chicken claws, fried chicken, eight treasure rice, sugar porridge, crisp twist flowers, salted dates, spiced beans, salted olives, peanut rice...

The form of "city market" reproduces the life of the shanghai lanes in the past into modern buildings, and a large number of old objects used by old residents include street signs, house numbers, cement thresholds, and old advertisements are placed in the "market of the old lanes" in an original way, as if shooting scenes of old Shanghai movies, some of the details of old life are restored to the exquisite portrait, so that the elderly citizens feel that they have returned to the small street lanes where they lived when they were young, there is a feeling of time traveling back to the 1980s and 1990s, and after 7080, they find their childhood memories here. More young people are seeing life in Shanghai lanes that they have not experienced.

There is a cement ping-pong table in the market, and several elderly people play table tennis and take photos, and everyone finds a sense of youth in the Raffles City market. An aunt said: "I used to work at the public telephone booth at the entrance of the alley, and I almost forgot that I had to call the door before, and I saw it again today, and I feel very kind." "Many old people in Shanghai meditate on old objects for a long time, radios, hot water bottles, milk cartons, letter boxes, bicycles, baby carriages, electricity meters, rattan beats, cricket basins, stone mills, water tanks, tarpaulin umbrellas, sewing machines, water buckets, wooden ladders, foot barrels, original, full of memories. An old TV set wall also plays Yao Mushuang and Zhou Baichun's Shanghai one-legged play, which is gimmicky. A "street-facing" color mottled paint wood-paneled room, the curtains reveal the yellow light of old-fashioned electric lights, making people full of associations, is it three generations of grandchildren crowded in a room of more than ten square meters, is it a small study in the attic, parents sleep on the floor?

I bought a shallot cake and sat down to eat, look at the passing tourists, diners eating "nostalgic meals" around the table, as if a mass actor was in the middle of a movie, and could not help but think of the old-fashioned ruffle street lampshade and recreation ball stall when I was a child... A girl lying in a stroller looks at the world in the bazaar with her eyes wide open, I don't know what she is thinking, but one thing is for sure, children living in the new era are really happy... (Yang Zhongming)