Travel Inside China’s Prosperous, Innovative, and Futuristic Megacity FILLED With Hidden Gems.
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- In this episode, I will try to convince you that Shanghai is one of the MOST underrated places to travel, with LOTS of hidden gems that only savvy locals know.
For some context, I lived and worked in Shanghai 10 years ago. I was shocked to see how modern, vibrant, an comfortable the city has become.
We will not visit any typical tourist destinations, you are more than welcome to google those on your own. Instead, we go on adventures around the city that highlights modern lifestyle, and the evolving culture of today’s Chinese people.
This is important, because there’s a lot of misconceptions about China, its cities, and many of its wonderful citizens. We will not discuss political ideology and differences in this episode, but simply sit back and celebrate the amazing city and its people.
The clips were shown in the order in which it was filmed, but there are timestamps conveniently placed so you can skip to the parts you feel most relevant/interesting to you.
My main plant channel: Onlyplants
My Instagram: @seanwilliamsalim
Helpful Addresses:
My friend's Massage Place - 上海市-静安区-天潼路660号一层
Suhe Mix C - 上海市-静安区-福建北路100号
1,000 Trees - 大洋晶典天安千树
M50 Art Galleries - M50创意园
Henderson Cifi Tiandi - 恒基旭辉天地
TianZiFang - 上海市黄浦区泰康路210弄
Wukang Mansion - 武康大楼
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00:00 Introduction
00:55 Arrival - Okura Garden Hotel
02:18 Day 1 - Errands + Nostalgia + Massage
03:48 Suhe MixC - A Gorgeous Futuristic Mall!
05:24 Xintiandi - The Most Popular Mall
06:14 Day 2 - Shopping
07:51 1,000 Trees Mall
14:29 Nio Electric Vehicle Showroom
17:45 M50 Art Galleries
22:01 Jinxian Lu - A Vibrant Bar Street
24:05 Day 3 - Henderson Cifi Tiandi
25:34 Xintiandi Style - Innovative Contemporary Mall
29:15 A Creative Weekend Market
34:04 K11 Mall - Cool Shops and TONS of Good Eats
34:54 Gay Bar + Clubbing
35:41 Shanghai at 3A.M.
40:15 Xujiahui Sun Moon Light Center + Shopping
42:19 Tianzifang - Old Lane House Shopping District
52:26 Last Night in Shanghai
53:41 Wukang Mansion + Shanghai Summary/Departure
So clean and mordern ,no wonder US UK are jealous .
Love the ‘jealous’ chat. Clsssic CZcams geek comment.
I think you may be misjudging sentiment in US/UK. Not many people are jealous of China. Many are happy that China has dragged themselves out of abject poverty over the last 25 years, but are concerned for the well being of the Chinese people.
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Rather than concern about Chinese people, you should be concern about your own people, no? Look at your Philadelphia and many homeless in many of your community. Shouldn't this problem concerned you but the Chinese?? Hmm.. hmm.. hmm..
Do u think US looked like a 3rd world country compared to China? I was looking at some US hotels and thought they were stucked in the 80s.
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Some parts of the US yes 😅
You need to compare like to like. Don’t compare the worst of the US with the best of China, or vice versa. There are great hotels in the US, and shitty hotels in China, and the other way around as well
@@TravelwithMark i am comparing hotels at around 200usd. Like for like, USA is old n jaded. There may be some nice boutique hotels in nyc or California, other than that, US is a joke.
@@IA100KPDT $200 in the US is not the same as $200 in China due to the different cost of living. If I took that same $200 to Vietnam, for instance, the hotel would be nicer than in China. The average wage in the US is 7X that of China so to compare like to like, you would need to compare a $200 hotel in the US to a $28.50 hotel in China.
There’s something to see at every turn. I’m amazed that you can walk late at night by yourself with camera equipment and not get robbed. I live in the united states and it sucks.
Haha I just use my phone to film everything. I used to live in New York City and felt quite safe. I heard some cities like SF can be scary these days.
In 2018, I was drinking in a bar in Jiangmen, Guangdong until 3 a.m., drunk on a green belt on the street, woke up at 6 a.m. with my phone and wallet on me.
lol Chinese have the freedom of walking out late😂
sure true
China is a country worried about the safety of homeless people.
Canada news never shows this ,wonder why 😂
Its biased reporting, but also China has disconnected itself from social medias of the world so we dont really get an understanding of what is going in within China. 😀😀 this is why we have to travel there to see
Embarrassing for Canada😅
@wander, Canada has a potato head running the country. The Potato Head thinks he was born in Idaho USA and not in Canada!
@anglohan5428 Brainwashed
Most Canadians still think China is a evil, oppressive, communist dictatorship country. They look at me strange when I tell them I would like to travel to China.
Shanghai is the new legit pearl of the orient. Hong Kong seems sooooo yesterday. 😅
Yessss. Hong kong is too crammed and expensive to do anything. In China rennovations are cheap and manpower is plentiful. A lot of ideas can be realized.
Shanghai today is so frgging posh. Can’t wait to go back and spend an extended period there.
And its actually not expensive to visit 😀
It's TRUE nowadays，but later will be different i think. So welcome to shanghai right now .haha
@@bradysun7993what a damn comment. It will only be even more amazing later. 🙄
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Taipei will never become like Shanghai, believe me.. 😅
@anglohan5428 CIA bot sounds like it needs a good upgrade
Shanghai, or China does not look like collapsing any time soon. 😊
Despite what media like to report, it is not collapsing. Although chatting with the locals they say that life is harder now, as the economy significantly slowed down. But they are still more prosperous than most nationas
@@onlysean137654th most prosperous. Doing well.
@@JohnSmith-sm7ezYou made up the ranking yourself? It’s kinda hilarious 😂😂
Collapse has been 20 or 30 years already😂
Not even close 😅
Long... plants, i mean travel video. Actually it is really good! Enjoy every second of the video. Glad I'm not the only one who actually like China.
Haha thank you. Welcome to my non-plant content 😛
Love this video...showing different sides of Shanghai. Please do the same for other cities, say Beijing, Xian, Chongqing.
Im travelling to Chengdu in March! 😀
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Sean, you should meet your countrymen bobo di mobil who currently adventuring into Xinjiang with an EV car and make a video of it because i think it should be interesting.
@@onlysean1376Shenzhen please
Definitely different way to show Shanghai. You went inside stores and describe what's inside. Definitely a city i would like to visit! Thank you for your video!
Thank you for taking the time to write ❤️
The red shopping was designed by the french architect Jean Nouvel.
Yes it is 😀😀
🙏🏼What a beautiful and enlightening experience you provided us!🙏🏼
Thank you, what a cheerful comment!
I’m Chinese and I think ur video just changed my negative views on Shanghai ‼️thanks for opening my eyes 👀
Visit when you get the chance. Its even better in person.
i moved to China last year for school and although where i am in Tianjin isn't quite as crazy as Shanghai, it's been such a treat to experience this bustling futuristic country
I visited Shanghai a few times, but never found these interesting thing. Thank you Sir.
Oooh yes time to revisit 😀
Very unique way of introducing Shanghai, thank you
You’re most welcome
Too many similar contents about Shanghai(Yu Yuan, the Bund, Zhujiajiao) from recent travel vloggers, your video is much-needed to refresh it.
Thank you 😀
@anglohan5428 yes yes, you are announcing your lacking of critical thinking skill. Very brave of you.
Mind opening, had a bit different idea of how China may look, thank you for this video ☀️
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Great video, one of the most interesting Shanghai videos I’ve seen on CZcams with a unique perspective.
Thank you, it might help that I used to live there 😀
yea absolutely, refreshing to see some of the places my wife and I visit when we're in Shanghai instead of the usual spots tourists hit. Also appreciate the product and commercial design insights. @@onlysean1376
NIO✌🏻I love their design
Yeahhh one of the best car designs Ive seen
Thanks Sean. Favorite was the animals ❤❤ and random hellos from locals
Thank you. Theres so much to absorb in this city. Its very underrated in my opinion 😀
Downtown is a North American terminology for an empty place with big concentration of tall buildings with no ppl around after work hours. In China, every corner is a community square full of ppl & shopping places.
Yes 😀
You must have a great cameria. The video quality is superb, making Shanghai look better than other vlogs. Thank you.
Its just iPhone13 pro camera set on 4k setting 😀
@anglohan5428 pls study Chinese history first. You don't really care for Chinese people.
@anglohan5428 可怜的叻色
Nice to see all the small local businesses and that China isn't getting completely swallowed up by big mega corporations. Very impressive.
Oh yes its actually easy to start a business in China.
Shanghai is really a hidden gem
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Sean, much thanks for sharing contemporary Shanghai with us. Simply mindboggling!
The car is NIO - world's #1 top quality controlled car company of modern times, where Tesla is on #23rd! Fascinating indeed.
Haha interesting insight of Nio VS Tesla! Noted 😀
I've yet to visit many of the sights you introduced in the video. Thank you!
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White rabbit brought me back wayyyy back lol....loved this vlog...Shanghai is amazing.
Thank youu 😀
Thank you for showing me my hometown 35 years ago...
Wow! Come back to visit if you are able to. Its transformation is marvelous
I like the ways how you appreciate the fashion/modernity/daily life in Shanghai from a specific perspective. Your video is very enjoyable!👍
Thank you ❤️
love this!
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great shanghai vlog. finding some inspo already haha
Lots foreigners first time in Shanghai and they say same word like you. Futuristic city.❤ They also say electric cars 🚘 make no noise. Blue license plates mean electric vehicles.
Wowww, noted on the blue license plate. Will pay attention to it next time
35:00 bartender is cute 😍
Haha quite
Yes he is!
I think the food price there is still very reasonable. Developed countries lifestyle but with third world price - perfect combination if you want to live luxurious with minimum cost.
Yesss
Bingo you got that
A great video🎉
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This vlog shows the essence of Shanghai living! Better than those who only know the Bund😅
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NIO, the car brand, is quite a big deal actually
Yeahhh I have been living under a rock 🙈
@@onlysean1376 Their power swap thing is pretty dope esp. on long roadtrips. All other cars are stuck with their charging pile for at least 40 mins while NIO owners will be out the door in 5 mins.
Good job🎉
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Thank you for publishing this. I’m an ABC but I grew up with SH, having moved there in 93. It’s been 7 years since I have been back, but I lived there and visited fairly regularly for almost 25 years, and was privileged to watch the city grow up. I remember the Okura as well as the Jin Jiang across the street; we often went to 苏浙汇, as it was the best restaurant in town at the time. And 滴水洞was also a regularly visited spot. The Commune at 泰康路was one of the few good breakfast spots then; I can’t imagine it is still there. But there was a time when there were very few restaurants, Chinese not even foreign. 梅龙镇was one of those few. Then 台北小厨which would later become Bellagio. The ebb and flow of the city was what made it so utterly fascinating, and to see it progress year over year with every visit made an impression. SH was my second home, and it’s been too long. So thank you for this video which wasn’t just the Bund, and LJZ, or XLB and XTD. I hope to walk its streets and alleyways again soon; but not in July, I prefer Feb 😂
Oh YES! The Commune. I actually found the courtyard that used to be Commune. Its something else now. Thanks for sharing this. It warms my heart to know that spaces can connect us even as strangers.
@@onlysean1376 I just wanted to make an intro so I could make an excuse to hang with you if ever we are in SH at the same time cause you know and see ALL the cool spots haha. There definitely is a connection amongst all us heads who got to experience Shanghai.
The helmet guys are food delivery, not equivalent to DHL or FedEx, more like deliveroo or Uber eats, those insulated boxes clearly can’t carry too many parcels😂
Woo but they also do kuaidi right? Shunfeng etc…
@@onlysean1376 yellow helmets are meituan, blue helmets are elema, shunfeng are in black and red, they all have their uniforms, kuaidi usually drive cars instead of riding bikes.
Awesome video, hope you can travel to other cities in China for us.❤
There are 2 more episodes in China coming up soon 😀
Absolutely amazing tour of Shanghai. Wish to have seen this video earlier as I have just come back from Shanghai and realized how many and how much I have missed. Will visit Shanghai again for sure. Thank you for sharing. Subed, because I do not want to miss anything else. 😀
Oh yes I will always come back to Shanghai. Need to keep up with the transformations. It is inspiring and awesome
It should be a pet hotel or pet care center, people pay 15 to 30 $ a day for care when they are out travelling, "58 city" is an APP for people to look for pet hotel nearby their houses.
Whoaaa thats cool. So many modernb pet services there.
💖China Dream Here is💖China Is doing an Excellent Super Great Jobs 💖China is the Best Country in the World today👏👏👏
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The 1000 tree architecture concept is very interesting.
1000 trees mall is amazing. I remember one year I drove there to have Chinese New Year eve dinner with my parents and it was good.
Most shops are not open yet, it has even more potential than it does now! 😀
WOWed by the effect you made for this video, showing a inner sight of Shanghai. I search 植物草杖 in 1688 the minute I saw it in your video 嘻嘻～打开新世界～Thank you for your sharing!
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The view from your hotel looks like 陕西南路
I love all the fashion boutiques in your video. Whole new level avant-garde.
I think it was shanxinan lu 😀 its the metro station
China is beautiful 😂😂
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😭 Just came back from Shanghai & miss it already watching your vlog. Thanks for sharing all the places you visited & would definitely need this itinerary the next time i'm back at Shanghai.
Awesome vlog! Thanks for showing us the real China!
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Thanks Sean!! I’m so glad you made another CZcams account! Found you from onlyplants! Coincidently I’m also planning for a trip to Shanghai next year so this vides has been very helpful!
Haha thank youuu. Glad you found it! Do check out the typical tourist places too! Theres some good ones not mentioned here.
Also 1933 slaughter house is a wonderful repurposed space!
Good vlog. Keep on.
Thank you 😀
the is the video i didnt know i needed. but really glad i found it. definitely a bunch of hidden gems here :D
Wow. ❤😊 Thank you
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I am so glad that I found you here. Thank you so much for showing Shanghai, the vibrant and modern yet very traditional city at the same time. Love how you introducing all the hidden yet interesting places. Liked, subscribed and shared.
Thank you 😌
@anglohan5428 Get out of China's territory and do whatever freedom you want see how far you will go. Yea free Tibet, free HK, free Ugher, free Taiwan from thugs like you.
China is Cyberpunk
😀😀 the future is now
wonderful video, i especially liked the stairway 19:15. amazingly impressive. that said, i noticed at the end what appeared to be a brief view of park down below from a shot from your hotel. i would have appreciated a stroll thru a park of some scenes of nature. i loved the thousand trees. but all in all, life is more than shopping and consumerism, hence, i'd suggest showing more options aside from retail outlets. insides of homes, a drive thru residential areas. loved the architecture! thank you.
Ohh if you follow my main youtube account - onlyplants. I will have shanghai botanic garden episode up later this month! It will be an epic episode depicting Shanghai’s love for gardening and nature.
thank you! please let me know when it goes up and what is your "main youtube account"?@@onlysean1376
that would be wonderful @@onlysean1376
This is one of the best video that I have ever seen in YT about Shanghai. Thanks for sharing :)
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There is a lot of content captured, good videos.
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@anglohan5428 czcams.com/video/1L9bexoUkas/video.html
Great coverage of an increasingly great city, thank you so much!
I love seeing the old preserved into the new - incredible! So beautiful!
First time watching your video on travel and interestingly about Shanghai! You are definitely as good doing travel vids as plant videos. Lots of insights! Looking forward to seeing more travel vids from you Sean! 👍😊
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Very very very very very COOL video! You are multi-talented! I am very impressed with Shanghai and with your excellent video! I've never seen these parts of Shanghai even after having watched dozens of other CZcams videos on Shanghai. Shanghai seems to have changed so much since I last visited, over 6 years ago. Amazing work. Thank you!
Yes it has transformed so much over the years, at lightning speed. Worth visiting again now.
great video, really amazing!
Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽
This is amazing video 😀😀😀
thanks for the great vlog, is very helpful for me as I plan to solo trip & first time to shanghai soon!🎉
Every thing you showed us are so fancy💕
Yeahh Shanghai is really fancy these days. And its not even that expensive to visit!
Your Vlogs are awesome! You skipped all the touristic cliches and bigoted commentaries and went directly to the places I use to go. Shanghai is filled with Art and original spaces all over. I guess this was last year (because of the Cicadas), right?😉 I hope you can come back and make more content to show the truth about how we live in China in 2024. Cheers!
Love Shanghai❤
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Goes to work the might as well to farm
Goes to work, might as well farm
The car is NIO
Thank youu
Okura Garden sits on top of/behind the old Cercle Sportif Français (French sports club) built in the 1920s.
Oh yes there was a photo gallery that showed its original building.
wwwoow...
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10:30 I thought it was cat caffe 😊 I know Japan has these.
ufff great video; something similar from Shenzen?
Ive never been to Shenzhen 🥹 But ive heard good things. Hope I can visit soon.
Nice video! Can you share what camera you’re using to film?
I use my iPhone 13pro set on 4K setting 😀
Hi there l. Great clip! I'm heading to China in October and your clip has given me cool places to see. Can I ask- do you remember the name and location of the shop at time stamp 52:08? I want one of those cute dragons!!!
Hey there, I dont remember that shop as we were lost. But I believe its around the same block as the hotel as the taxi dropped us off at the wrong place. Sorry I couldnt be more helpful. 🥲 but there are actually tons of interesting shops that I did not film while I was there. Give yourself a few days to explore
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I thought you were a ABC. But it turned out you're an indonesian. wow, your Chinese is quite good.
btw, The electrical car you tried, you said the brand is Nio? Nio (Chinese name Weilai), LiXiang, XiaoPeng are 3 electrical car makers; not as famous as BYD but have much potentials.
I grew up in the states (and Singapore) 😀
Interesting! I kinda wanna check out BYD to see what the fuss is all about but we dont have a showroom in Indonesia.
Hello Sean. I loved your video! Thank you for sharing that Shanghai experience. I have a question, you mentioned closing your bank accounts in Shanghai after 10 years. I also have an account with Bank of China and haven't been back for 10 years; I know I still have some money in the account. Do you know what documents I need to bring to withdraw the remaining money from the account? Do I need to go to the same branch where I opened the bank account? Was closing the bank account quick? If I don't want to close the bank account, is it possible to keep it active? Thank you very much and success on your journey, Sean.
Hello, yes they keep records very well. Your funds should be safe. They will ask for old and new ID/Passport to verify but it really was a walk in the park! I went to a random branch to do it. Because Chinas online and mobile Banking is so powerful, I experienced no queue in the branches I visited. (I had more than 1 bank account). Bank people seemed curious or pleasantly surprised that I was back after all these years but were friendly and helpful!
Thank you for the response. I was glad to hear that the procedure is simple. I hope I can keep the bank account active; maybe I'll leave some money in the account to avoid closure. I hope the interest is corrected on the account balance. Anyway, thanks for the help, and I'll book at this Okura hotel thanks to your video as well.@@onlysean1376
Sean, you should meet your countrymen bobo di mobil who currently adventuring into Xinjiang and make a video of it because i think it should be interesting.
Oh wow what an interesting channel 😀
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Yeah, have been following her, your channel and another Indonesia who live in Beijing (rudy chen) for about a year now.
Wish you guys all always healthy and never stop show us every interesting places in China. Best Success to you... Terima kasih bro..
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Pity u didn’t visit the bund on the sunny day with the clear blue sky, would have been good to pay a quick visit.
上海def not underrated😂😂😂😂😂
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How is Shanghai under-rated? Cities like Ningbo and Wuxi are more under-rated.
I actually visited Suzhou in this trip too and it was amazing. Editing that episode now. Heading to chengdu next month! Hope to travel to more cities.
@@onlysean1376Suzhou and Chengdu are great cities to visit. Lots of history. It's easier to get around these cities since they are not megalopolises.
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Can you share the address for Bar Ego. Looks lovely.
If you have the baidu map app, type in bar Ego and it should come up 😀
@@onlysean1376 amazing! Found it. Thank you. Your video was amazing. Can’t wait to be back in Shanghai next month.
US Govt does not want you to see this!
just out of curiosity, why did you say that you are glad to have moved out of shanghai?
Shanghai was super cool 2007-2015 - Now it's not what it used to be. Too sad.
卧槽 乍一看还以为是姜文
For the algorithm.
Very kind! Thank you
总算有个视频不是外滩豫园了😅
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Really for almost all tourists, Shanghai is about the only place they know in China. I guess you are referring or targeting western oriented tourists maybe on their first visit to Asia, this would be applicable ie Shanghai is under-rated.
For a second, I confused you with the onlyfan😅
Haha my main channel is OnlyPlants (get it?) thats why my personal channel is OnlySean 😀
Some Shanghai Taxi has Note printed on their door " No Japanese and dogs allowed" . And few days back 8 April got case of an Uber driver chased 2 japanese passengers out from his car. Very friendly.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
No matter how flashy the city is, the malls, stores, public interest places will die over taken by e-commerce. This is happening all over the world, the most intense is probably China, it's just a fact. I feel bad for that plants invested pyramid sort of building, I think it will be DOA.
Oh yes China has really strong ecommerce sector. One of the reasons I ran out of business in china was my refusal to go online with my clothing line.
Don’t you worry, the Chinese malls have become places for reunion, dating, kids’ play ground, amusement park etc., wherever there’re people, there’re sales. E commerce can’t take away 100% of the shopping plus the stores are all backed up with their online sales too, the stores on streets and in the malls are just show rooms like the advertising expenses that you have to invest.
USA senator: have you ever applied to be a member of Chinese Communist Party ? :-)
you must like succkk whyte sausages :-) @anglohan5428
Shanghai... underrated? It's the 3rd most overrated city to visit, behind Shenzhen and Beijing.
Of course you are allowed to disagree 😀 everyone have different world views and expecations.
Are you gay？
THAT IS RUDE!
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