My girlfriend’s Mum has been visiting for the last few days, so as well as not being allowed to sit around in my underpants watching “Thundercats“, I’ve also been to a few tourist spots and restaurants with the honored guest.

Xiao long bao
Xiao Long Bao; Shanghai’s fish ‘n’ chips

Over the past year of having visitors, I’ve built up a few tips for anyone wanting to entertain visitors to Shanghai:

  1. Instead of going up the Pearl Tower, have a drink on the 37th floor of the Shanghri-La hotel next door. It’s open later, you’re at roughly the same height, have the bonus of actually being able to see the Pearl Tower as well as everything else, and the money you would have spent on admission buys you a drink
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