This Reddit thread might be of interest: https://www.reddit.com/r/shanghai/comments/bhk4gc/shanghai_night_markets_or_other_cool_stuff_at/ https://www.reddit.com

This Reddit thread might be of interest: https://www.reddit.com/r/shanghai/comments/bhk4gc/shanghai_night_markets_or_other_cool_stuff_at/ https://www.reddit.com/r/shanghai/comments/bhk4gc/shanghai_n... > [...] welcome to Shanghai 2019. It’s not totally dead though but it has been sanitized. > Shanghai in the last 4 years has really made a push to be the city where you "come for business, stay at a nice hotel, eat at a few nice restaurants, then go back to wherever [...] you came from". > Welcome to Shanghai! It’s like the Dallas of China. Honestly, I think that to a westerner, Shanghai is one of the most disappointing cities a person can visit. I live in Shanghai for 4+ years now, and I agree with the Reddit sub. It's not the "capital of the future" by any standard besides the length of the subway.