BLOWING SHANGHAI

However , there is no strange food in Shanghai we decided to visit the fastest developing metropolis in the world. The urban and social revolution is the most significant feature of modern Shanghai. The citizens of the city seem to be proud of it. English is widely spoken comparing to other chinese cities. The colonial history is well preserved and cultivated. International and chinese companies are building higher and higher skyscrapers. The Pudong area has the most of that steel and glass monsters but in truth the whole city is under construction. Sometimes I have an impression that it is not an architectural revolution but the war. Hundreds of squared meters of the old town are being crushed down by the heavy bulldozers. From the death fileds full of debris the new, 200 meters high towers are rising up. It is the same like in every big city in China but nowhere is so brutal like there. The small part of the old town is all that remains of a large, exotic and dodgy city of Shanghai. In the shade of glass towers old Chinese people are playing chess in dark small shops, vendors are selling fresh seafood, fruits and vegetables on the street. Above their heads the colorfull clothes are drying in the sun hanging on the half rotten parts of the buildings. No strange food there but that space makes strange even cut fish in half.