My Hometown Shanghai & (Re-ment Department Store)

Today let’s go shopping together. Let’s suppose that we have arrived at this big department store in Shanghai where my hometown is. Before we start I’d like to introduce a little bit about my hometown.

Shanghai is a huge city in China, and one of the global financial centers. The population there is more than 24 million now. It is a typical modern city (like New York) and it doesn't look like any ancient traditional Chinese-style town at all. It’s one of the richest cities with best educational and medical system, as well as most job opportunities. That's why the population there is overwhelming. If a global corporation has business to do with China, it must set up a branch office in Shanghai. It's a busy and competitive place, but it’s also very fun and beautiful. When I was asked about the downtown in Shanghai, I couldn't answer that question. It’s too big to have only one downtown. It is divided into 14(maybe 15 now) big districts and each district will have one or several ‘downtowns’. You rarely see people living in a single house. People live in apartment in high rise. It has about 16 subway lines that reach most golden lanes in Shanghai. My parents live there. It takes my dad 40 minutes'drive to work if there’s no traffic jam. And it’s considered "home near work" because some people spent 4 hours go to and back from work on the way every day. It’s not easy to move like people do in the States, the house price is very high, and so is the rent. Here are some photos of life in my hometown.

The Bund: The center of the city; one of the famous landscape in Shanghai; Shanghai International Settlement; face HuangPu River


Yu Garden: Another landscape in 'Old City' of Shanghai. 

2010 Shanghai World Expo: The Shanghai World Expo was also the largest World's Fair site ever at 5.28 square km. In the picture it's building of China Pavilion.


 DimSum: People often have them as breakfast or with afternoon tea.  

Hotpot: popular Chinese restaurant style - You dip everything into the soup in the middle and eat them with sauce (there are 50 different sauces to pick). I took this picture 2 years ago when I went back visiting my families and friends. You can see the soup has two styles: Spicy or Non-spicy.  

Grocery Shopping: Places like Walmart. In the picture it shows how Chinese people buy rice. lol. 

Boba Milk Tea: You will see the Boba-Tea vendors everywhere in Shanghai. It's popular. Imagine the Starbucks in Seattle, get it?

Traffic: That's why it needs so many subway lines. I took this picture on a platform bridge near my mom's office years ago. It wasn't the peak time.

Park: The parks in Shanghai are so different from what people know in the States. It's more than a piece of grass. They all look like exhibitions to me...It's well-designed and organized. Some of them have the same scale as Disneyland. They have different themes in different seasons. They are very beautiful. You need pay for tickets most of the time but it's not expensive. 

The Department Store: We have Outlets too but they are located in suburban district. Most shopping areas people go to look like those tall buildings in the picture. Actually the left building in the photo was one of my favorite shopping malls in my hometown.

IKEA: Well, I guess IKEA looks the same all over the world? Smile...


Do I love Shanghai? Of course. 
Do I miss it? Very much. I don't know why but it suddenly reminded me so much when I was playing with this Re-ment set. When I saw this I smelled a sense of city life. But I am definitely not a shopaholic. I do spend most of my pocket money on food and toy collection though.
Will I move back? No. If one day I move back China I’ll live in a small city along the coast. I enjoy a peaceful and quiet life style instead of making more money and being a city girl. Even Orlando is too big and crowd for me. I love those small towns in Oregon. But I still love Shanghai where I grew up and met my husband.

Ok. Now Re-ment Time! This Department Store has 8 floors and 1 basement. Let's walk from top to down. 

8F: Gift. 




7F: Western Kitchenware.



6F: Asian Kitchenware



5F: Men's Floor.




4F: Ladies' Floor.

3F: Ladies' Floor.



2F: Ladies' Floor. (3 floors for woman and only 1 floor for man...TeeHee!)

1F: Cosmetics.


B1: Gourmet.


I took this photo to show the details. It has 2 flavors, can open and the little fruit can take out. They are just toy smaller than my fingernail!!  


Happy Shopping Day!!

Dear readers, I really hope this post is not too verbose. And since English is not my first language, I really appreciate your pardon my grammar mistakes. Hope you have a great week. 

19 comments:

  1. Wow, the gardens/parks are beautiful! I love the flowers :-D
    The set is lovely, too - so detailed and with everything anyone could need. My favourite is the Western Kitchenware, and the cosmetics epsection is also lovely :-)

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    1. Hi Aranera! Thanks for your nice comment. My favorite is the Western Kitchenware too.

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  2. Shanghai looks beautiful!! I would love to go someday, it's so modern! The re-ment set looks amazing as well, the tea set looks so cute! :)

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    1. Hi Paige. Yes I highly recommend you to visit Shanghai if you ever have chance to have a trip in China. I'm also glad that you like my collection.

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  3. Thank you very much for sharing the pictures of Shanghai! It looks absolutly amazing! Like Paige said, I also would love to go there one day, I can imagine, that shopping there is gorgeous! Love the rice picture :D. I can imagine that the shopping malls are huge! When I was in Bangkok I was shocked by the size of shopping malls, Shanghai must be even bigger! And I adore your Re-ment sets!!! I can't decide which is the best, but I really like the men's floor things. :)

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    1. Thank you so much Kyra. I really recommend you visit Shanghai if you have a chance go to China in the future. I like the men's floor things too. It looks so elegant.

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  4. The garden in Shanghai looks so beautiful. I didn't know that it was not like parks over here! I can understand why you would want to stay in a small city. I think sometimes quality of life is more important than big money. The Re-ment set looks amazing. I am in love with the tea set. So beautiful!

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  5. 我從未去過上海,但總有一天,我要到外灘看夜景,吃上客真正地道小籠包.....上海,等著我....哈哈....
    這套百貨公司,在我剛開始玩RM時已經是抄價了,由於當年也要過百美金,相對其他RM,就無買,現在有的BLOG友不太多,有的當年有已不見再玩RM了,可惜....你要影多點相呀

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    1. ME TOO, 我都未去過上海, 但經moonrabbit介紹, 感覺唔錯. 再老點可能會去吓

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    2. 我都是這樣打算,中國有很多地方都未去過,老點又不能坐太遠機便是遊祖國的好時機

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    3. 谢谢你们对这个博客的支持!大家一起交流食玩真的很开心呢!我好喜欢看Krin和小屋的场景。也希望你们有机会一定要去玩一下上海,不过我香港的朋友说上海和香港差别不大,都是城市的感觉。Krin那句“游祖国的好时机”真是喜感又可爱呢!

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    4. CHLOE, 真的我有親人去了雲南,說美得不得了,我自已又想去BEJING走一走,故宫更加想走一轉....別說還有太多太多了,雖說香港跟上海都是大城市,但總各有不同,有時老外問起,自已連這等大城市也沒到過,真有點枉為中國人呢.....哈哈

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  6. Fun post! Your pictures of Shanghai are fantastic, and the Re-Ment sets are amazing! xo Jennifer

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    1. Thank you Jennifer. I'm glad you like this post!

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  7. 呢set百貨公司, 我只有3款, 好可惜當年無買, 現在已經是天價, 炒得好貴

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    1. 最近在eBay上查了一下,这套要280+美金,真是吓死人。。。

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  8. Shanghai looks like a very interesting city! Too big for me, to live in, but I wouldn't mind visiting some day =) I love the picture of rice in the big store, had no idea you could buy rise like that =) But it's like how we buy potatoes here in Sweden =) But rise comes in 1-2kg packages here =)
    The traffic seem terrifying! But the parks beautiful, but not so natural, more like made by humans =) And then, IKEA, finally something that looks like home ;) I'm so glad you shared this, I'm terrible at geography and stuff, but looking at cities like this in a blog and hear some one "tell" me about life there is very interesting, I would love to travel more and see the world, but I don't have the money and time, but my brother has travelled a lot and shows me pictures from his trips =)
    The Re-ment department store looks great!! I'm a bag and shoe lover myself, so I wouldn't mind this set ;)
    Hannah

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    1. Hi Hannah, thank you for your nice comment. I didn't travel very much either. I'd like to go to Sweden one day. I sew pictures of Sweden online and it looked so beautiful!

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