And, just to round off the Shanghai stuff, some final photos of things that caught my eye.

Like this house, which looks like something fro..

One restaurant's name kept cropping up as the most authentic in Shanghai whenever I talked to locals, friends who had visited Shanghai, or..

This was what I really came to China for: the dirty, quick, terribly tasty stuff they eat on the street. I don't really know where to begi..

The photos speak for themselves, so for once no smart alec captions…

One of the best restaurants in Shanghai is Jason Atherton's Table No.1 at the too-cool-for-school Waterhouse Hotel. Atherton is apparently..

My hotel: the staggeringly good Langham Xintiandi:

Out wandering the streets on my first day, I kept being accosted by images of sea cucu..

I was fortunate enough to be invited to a cooking demonstration with Christian Puglisi of Copenhagen 's restaurant Relæ on Monday. Puglisi..