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thebigO
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Oct 23, 2006 - 01:01 PM |
 
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Overpriced, filled with uppity yuppies, does not reflect the REAL Shanghai.
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Magnolia
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Oct 23, 2006 - 02:18 PM |
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no, it doesn't.
however, it is a marketing success. filled to the brim with tourists each day and showcases the upwardly mobile side to the city.
rarely do people who live in shanghai go to xtd, much like new yorkers don't make weekly stops at the statue of liberty.
a good place to have around for those business dinners where the guests don't care to experience "shanghai". clean, maintained, some (once) decent places to eat.
not somewhere i frequented more than eight months after it launched, but all in all, somewhere that i wouldn't want to see close... if only because it is a no-brainer destination for business guests who crave cookie-cutter entertainment with a slight chinese twist. plus, it has been written about in their local newspaper so they are excited to see it. |
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thebigO
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Oct 25, 2006 - 02:07 PM |
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I agree with the phrase "cookie-cutter with a twist." Its like biting into a spicy Burger King Whooper sandwhich... familiar, with a twist...  |
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MrBeijingles
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Oct 25, 2006 - 02:13 PM |
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I used to live in Jinqiao and there were uppity yuppies everywhere. On weekend mornings, all of the foreign children were outside playing in some kind of soccer league. Is there such a thing as a Shanghai soccer mom? It was like I was back in New Jersey again. |
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TheDudeAbides
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Oct 25, 2006 - 08:42 PM |
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I don't like it either, for all the aforementioned reasons. Not as much of a tourist trap as say the Yu Garden, but I prefer more of a casual scene, and all the suits and yuppie-ness and just the general pretentiousness of the place makes it totally not my scene. |
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thebigO
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Oct 26, 2006 - 10:20 AM |
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"I hate every inch of you"
Johnny Cash's ode to San Quentin prison, and mine to Xintiandi...  |
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Ouling
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Oct 27, 2006 - 11:41 AM |
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Theme restaurants with bad food and the prices to answer... I would only go to take pictures of perverted western sex tourists and the comical shanghai fashionable wannabes for research purposes. Not a good stop for visitors unless you want to see the consequence of Globalization. Good job Vincent Lo! |
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Kiwi
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Oct 27, 2006 - 10:02 PM |
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Much as I like to diss Shanghai I don't think Xintiandi is all that bad. I don't go there very often, but there is plenty to enjoy. . .
It has a couple of decent restaurants. Dingtaifeng is excellent and KAAB is reasonable.
It is one of the only decent sized and pedestrian friendly spaces in the city.
It makes an attempt to retain some traditional architectural flavor.
. . . and what does Ouling mean that Xintiandi is full of "perverted western sex tourists"? Your average sex tourist would be horrified to find themselves in the Xintiandi Paulaner. The place is as tame as a Sunday school outing to a bible factory and ruinously expensive.
I just can't see an afternoon at Xintiandi leading Herman to storm angrily out of his picturesque Bavarian cottage, shouting "No! We are finished! I have concluded that I am in love with the twins!", as Freida sobs into a freshly baked apple strudel. |
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Ouling
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Oct 29, 2006 - 02:40 PM |
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Well, I guess the crowd and scene varies with the position of the sun. I went into Rendezvous one night and stumbled upon half a dozen girls, with very liberal assessments concerning clothing along with makeup, entangled with this 50+ American resembling more of a raisin, each competing for him to buy a drink and take them home... And I personally managed to pick up a girl across to another bar, only to kick her out the car when she assumed I was also a paying shopper. |
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twinpointe
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Nov 04, 2006 - 12:21 PM |
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Gez what a harsh crowd. Xintiandi is what it is ... it is great on a Sunday afternoon to sit and watch people. Yes many foreigners but also many Chinese tourists & locals as well. I will admit to being there often usually to stroll through and then around the artifical lake where many tradtional china life-style activities are taking place. And Huaihai park is my favorite in the city. |
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