Category Archives: Shopping

The South Xizang (Tibet) Rd Pet Market

Posted on November 4, 2016 by The Pearl

There are flower-cum-pet markets all over Shanghai, but the most fascinating is perhaps the one in South Xizang Road which runs north to south just to the west of the Old City of Shanghai.  The nearest metro station is Laoximen, … Continue reading →

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Our Daughter Hits Shanghai

Posted on October 22, 2016 by The Pearl

It was over a year before our daughter Rosalind made it out to see us in Shanghai.  For the first half of our first year that we had been living as expats in China Rozy had been doing her final … Continue reading →

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Normally It Would Go Straight Up

Posted on December 28, 2015 by The Pearl

In the New World Dawan Department Store on the corner of Nanjing East Road and Henan Middle Road, next to Exit 7 of East Nanjing Road Metro station is this vast atrium with its array of exposed copper coloured lifts, which travel up … Continue reading →

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Looking for Christmas

Posted on December 23, 2015 by The Pearl

Naturally Christmas is not a big thing here in Shanghai, although the big hotels, the shopping malls and the western restaurants all put Christmas decorations up during the first couple of weeks of December.  But there is not the western … Continue reading →

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Two Japanese Department Stores

Posted on August 3, 2015 by The Pearl

As we live in an area of Shanghai that is home to an number of Japanese (and Koreans) it is not surprising that there is a Chinese branch of a famous Japanese Department store close by.  This is Takashimaya. Takashimaya … Continue reading →

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Silk King

Posted on May 27, 2015 by The Pearl

A couple of weekends before we left for the UK I went in search of some Chinese silk to be made into blouses.  I had brought a couple of one-sized silk blouses out with me to Shanghai as a general cover-up … Continue reading →

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