Today, I want to write about a vibrant neighborhood, and I think it is a model of Shanghai's diverse life: the western section of Wuding Road in Jing'an District, with Changde Road at one end and Yanping Road at the end, a radius of one or two kilometers, known as Jing'an Schengen District, the Magic Capital United Nations - you walk randomly on the street, the proportion of foreigners is higher than that of locals, the probability of hearing foreign languages is greater than Chinese, in addition to English, there are Italian, Spanish and various small languages that cannot be understood.
Because there are many foreign customers, there are not only several imported supermarkets nearby, but even the local Lianhua supermarkets have sold craft brews.
All kinds of restaurants eat for a month without heavy samples, flops without coming to the café for a few days, and the happy hour of the bar is always long... Freshly finished men show their muscles in the open-air seats, the girls at the party kiss and hug each other, and the white-collar workers take off their commuter suits and lock the little electric donkey.
Malabar's small storefront is the meeting point of spaniards in Shanghai for many years, raw for South American barbecues, a Venezuelan chef when he opened, I also pinched sweat for him, and now it is a diamond of black pearls.
On the other side of the street, Le Bistrot de Racine's French food is getting more and more high-end, this end of the street, La Crèmerie is full of French cheese, buy home and drink the most affordable, oh yes, no matter where you are on the street, cut your hair to go to Bono in the middle.
Western food is booming, Chinese food is not to mention more, just a short Yanping Road old Shengxing soup bun restaurant actually opened two, Fumai in addition to the buns and the original Wuyuan cake family's signature crab shell yellow, close to xinzha Road, is the recent explosion of Sichuan cuisine do not ask the jianghu and hidden in the residential building of Wenzhou flour noodles.
At night, people pour in from all directions, familiar with the way into the restaurant, the aroma of food, the sound of toast, the noise of the streets, suddenly Soho in Hong Kong Sheung Wan, Tokyo Kagurazaka, Paris's Marais...
Mixed with the crowd that enjoyed life, we happily ate a few and shared them with everyone.
Eat and drink a cow
Fat Cow made enough articles with cattle, cattle are cows, cute to the extreme, watching the menu is amused! Chaikovs Cow, Galif Niuya, May the cow be with you...
The salad in the shop, the recipe is lively, small portion light food, fresh and cute, 98 yuan can choose four, eat not too healthy: cow ear he is green oily edamame broad bean avocado, cow style Caesar cheese to give foot, no inferior, beef about salad in the spinach pine nut roasted apple special cow!
The authentic American burger is no worse than Shake Shack in Jing'an Kerry outside the three crossroads...
Some people like their sweet sweet potato fries, some people say that the milkshake in the store is a must, in short, every Monday burger buy one get one free promotion is famous, late to grab the lack of space.
Fat Cow's craft beer, one thick and one light, each cup is less than thirty pieces.
Happy Hour starts in the afternoon, no need to rush to place an order before eight o'clock, and on Wednesdays and Margarita nights, there is a guarantee of plenty of drinks and happiness.
Italian nights
Fat Cow is next door to Central, and the neighborhood feels like The Friends' Central Perk, except that it's authentic Italian.
Ordered a plate of salad, how can the plate still have a gap?
The original porcelain tableware was the opening of the restaurant when the Italian boss specially customized from his hometown to bring China, because of the epidemic barrier, can not come in the new goods, broken had to continue to use, the boss insisted on importing ingredients from Italy, built an authentic Napoli pizza oven.
Pizza is freshly baked, the bottom of the cake is fragrant, the sides are covered with burnt holes, and the spicy salami and spicy meat sauce toppings are served with mozzarella cheese, which is an impeccable standard in Shanghai.
When I asked the waiter for extra ketchup, I knew she would bring Toto sauce instead of Ketchup... Ah, in the taste of pizza, you can always trust the Italians!
Risotto has chosen a vegetable flavor, asparagus, spinach, parmesan cheese a slice of green onion, risotto slightly sandwiched, is an uncompromising Italian delicacy.
Fat Cow's cocktails are sweeter, Central's bartenders are more sophisticated, Happy Hour is from 4pm to 8pm, and classic Italian cocktails may as well have a few more drinks!
We started with the basic Aperol Spritz, drank to the Venice sunset Select Spritz, turned to rosen Spritz with roses, advanced to Rosen Shiso made with perilla dipped vodka, looked at the cup of Italian Mojito, and finally ended with the eternal Negroni, called the paid bartender also sent two glasses of Lemoncello, a classic Italian night!
Suddenly in Japan
Crossing a T-shaped intersection, there is a restaurant called Kyushu Field that resembles a Heisei house, and the atmosphere is like a Fukuoka izakaya.
Two Japanese men can order a set of Suntory whiskey horn bottles for a night, foreigners enter the door to light a roasted bird is also familiar with the road, and old guests have stored whiskey, and the waiter sends ice cube cups.
We ordered two rounds of appetizers, and drank four rounds of wine... The variety played a slam.
Lobster salad sweet Mimi's, back to the pot meat, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, are a small plate, a faction of Japanese wind, a lot of cabbage bean sprouts yo, with ASAKI draft beer and yogurt ice clean opening.
Fried chicken dumplings, crispy chicken skin wrapped in chicken filling, Kit Kat, dipped in sour lemon juice and salad sauce, served with oolong tea shochu and cherry blossom sawa, the machine pre-mixed cocktail tastes refreshing.
Grilled sliced fish, cheap small fish, air-dried overnight, under the wine gift, too light to sprinkle their own seven flavor powder.
Ending with Kimbin Umeko Stick and Lemon Shochu, I unconsciously drank too much, while NHK was interviewing Kabuki in Gion, Kyoto, to introduce the new season of the show... Ah, the Kamogawa River strolls, as if in another world.
Seconds back to Yunnan
If you are willing to walk a block north to Kangding Road, you can taste the Yunnan cuisine recommended by Michelin for many years.
The menu of DianDao is simply customized for foreigners, with pigs, cattle, vegetables to classify, covering the cuisine of all parts of Yunnan, we specially inquired about it, the chef is from Lincang, skip the Kunming small pot rice noodles and Dali milk fans, choose the specialties of the southwest Yunnan area.
Hani tree flowers, lichen-like ferns, lime with millet peppers, sour and super spicy.
Dai grilled fish, simple tilapia, spices spread over a layer, good in lemongrass put more, but the city's electric grilling is not as good as the street carbon grilled ah, daily miss Yunnan.
Ham fried milk fungus, now only dry mushrooms, heavy oil fire fried out, while eating and spitting sand, ham used Xuanwei's, we just came back from there, eating very fragrant!
A Shangri-La barley beer, a local Lancang River beer, drink the mountains and rivers south of Caiyun.
Barbarian BBQ
The night's hilarity lasts until the early hours of the morning, followed by brunch and the queues begin...
Barbarian on the corner of Jiaozhou Road, the house and the outside of the house are emitting a wild aroma of barbecue, the restaurant is arranged like a primitive cave, it looks like an uncivilized atmosphere, in fact, it is a fashionable South American barbecue.
Right now is the decoration of Halloween
The lunch set couldn't be more affordable: ginger-flavored secret roast chicken, grilled aroma accompanied by refreshing salad;
Mexican sausage with pasta, South American cheese chili peppers and cuttlefish juice are also a good match.
The homemade berry juice in the shop, bright and sweet, others as a healthy drink, I use to decant...
I like the feel of this neighborhood: eating and drinking, comfortable and hedonistic, is what life should be!
To say that there are more small roads with marine air: Wukang Road, Anfu Road, Urumqi Road... Street photography everywhere and internet celebrities everywhere are familiar gestures, but in my opinion, foreign qi is not only in the bright and good-looking face, but also full of life texture, which together are the extraordinary charm of this international metropolis.