High-end supermarket from Hong Kong that sells a lot of premium goods, fresh fish and seafood, fresh meat, imported fruit and packaged foods. You'll pay through the nose, but you'll get exceptional produce in a large, stroll-around-and-graze environment. Read more
Yinxi has chains all over downtown Shanghai. All of them have low-key entrances like a speakeasy. You need to press the head of a monk toy to get in (the second one from the right) then cross a small pond on wooden stepping stones to get to the reception desk. The... Read more
Kechara Tea House offers vegetarian cuisine, focussing on healthy and dietary ingredients that is sustainable for our environment. Read more
Anfu Hui in Chinese, is an eclectic venue starting with a furniture and tea retail on the ground floor, restaurant and private dining on the second and third floor and rooftop garden on the 4th, catering to functions, wine tasting and afternoon tea. Read more
Anfu Hui in Chinese, is an eclectic venue starting with a furniture and tea retail on the ground floor, restaurant and private dining on the second and third floor and rooftop garden on the 4th, catering to functions, wine tasting and afternoon tea. Read more
TWG is an up-market tea shop/restaurant/patisserie that offers a staggering amount of artisan teas from around the world—India, China, Sri Lanka, etc. They also offer breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner. Food skews Continental—quiches, sandwiches,... Read more
Zen Lifestore is a boutique and cafe that specializes Chinese traditional artcrafts, self-owned brands, high-end hand painted porcelain, fragrant oil diffusers, jewelry, light fixtures candles and furniture and other gifts. They also offer gift packing and worldwide... Read more
A charming tea shop that sells tea from nearly every corner of China as well as a few from India, but specializes in Tie Guanyin. Owner Wanling also offers courses on tea and various tea accessories. They've moved into this new space from November 2017. They've... Read more
Tea House is a brightly lit shop with two locations in Tianzifang. The staff is very friendly and they sell everything from flower teas to fruit teas in colorful tins. You can't try the tea before you buy it, but you can open any tin and smell it to get an idea. Tins... Read more
Shabby chic Shanghainese restaurant in a quaint old villa hidden in the back of an old nongtang. Inside, it's a clutter of antiques, vitrines housing all manner of chinoiserie, shelves groaning under the weight of Buddhist philosophy tomes. It has atmosphere and... Read more
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