I went to Shanghai a decade ago, so not sure about 1/2. 3, get your hotel to write down where you want to go in Chinese for the day. Most restaurants had at le

I went to Shanghai a decade ago, so not sure about 1/2. 3, get your hotel to write down where you want to go in Chinese for the day. Most restaurants had at least one English menu even back then. 4, In Shanghai they used to have these districts where you could buy knock-off gear. You go to an area, pick up a 'guide' and they take you to all these hidden shops. Then price quoted is 10 times higher than what they'll accept, haggling was half the point/fun. You can also smirk at the Americans who fail to do so. It was pretty cool seeing these backroom entrepreneurs there doing their thing. Also on the island there was all this building work and massive buildings with seemingly no-one working in them. Seemed very odd at the time, but it's definitely worth checking out that area to see if it's still all paper tigers or if they actually do anything with them. The underwater tunnel ride to get there was pretty good too. 5, While I was in Shanghai we ended up in an expat bar and got to know some people in there that took us to Chinese nightclubs. Was a much better way of going out than trying to figure it out ourselves. This was like 10 years ago and I can't remember the name, but I really would recommend it as a way of seeing the night life outside of circuses, etc. It was on the river near the south end of where all the old colonial buildings are, all I can remember. We had a lot more fun after we did that. Basically finding some English speaking friends asap makes it a lot more fun, you can do tourism during the day, then have fun out at night