The French Concession

I pass the Normandie Apartments or Wukang Mansion as it’s called now from my day to work everyday,
they redid the outside recently and now also gave the interior a facelift.
Being one of my favorite old french concession buildings, I just thought this requires a post.
And I took some pictures on my day home yesterday for y’all to  see.

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Okay, admitting it, every once in a while, or more often than that I sin and have Pizza’s.
I guess here I tried them all, Da Marco’s, obviously Pizza Hut, Papa’s and those but none of them can keep it up with
Casbah’s crazy thin crust pepperonis, casbah’s house and hawaii’s.
They also have wonderful home made muffins, [...]

Truly a well kept secret in the French Concession is Yan Ye Hand Made Shoes on 893 Huashan Road between Fuxing and Wukang Road.
Mr. Zhao and Mr Liu (Yan Ye) offer all kinds of shoes, high heels, low heels, designer, italian style, boots, if you can imagine it, they can do it.
On top of their [...]

Oh, I’ve been longing for a new breakfast spot for sometime now.
Tried BiFengTang, S something Coffe on Xingguo Road, and well, Starbucks.
Bi Feng Tang, the Hongkong style Tea House on Changshu Road is fine, good stuff, oriental and not to pricey, but it opens at 10 am, which is way to late, the others, not [...]

The Shanghai Library is definitely one of my top spots in Shanghai if you’re here long term.
The Library has a huge selection of english books on it’s fourth floor, ranging from novels, to magazines to business books.
And it’s surprisingly cheap, only 35 Rmb for a year long membership card.
This one only lets you enter the [...]

Hey, we commited ourselves to mapping the french concession, every notable location and business.
If you have any place to add, please, feel free to tell us, either by commenting on the post below or mail. 

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László Hudec who was also known as Ladislav Hudec (his hungarian name is spelled Hugyecz) is probably “the” person who shaped Shanghai the way we know it today.
And along with Hardoon was another significant young man that made his fortune in the city.
The young architects life is a story of ambition, will, hardships and success that is truly [...]

The French Concession had 33 theatres making Shanghai one of the most cultured and international cities in the country even long before it’s rise as a modern metropolis.
The Cathay Theatre is one of the City’s most valued and easily recognised buildings from the past.
The Cinema was designed by the hungarian architect C. H. Gonda (who [...]