Shanghai - Old is Gold

In our season finale of the series Shanghai, we feature the best of Shanghai. The old.

No no no (we know what you're thinking). We're not making fun of old people. Maybe we are of Shanghai.
Shanghai is a state-of-the-art city. And as with all cities, it's been so quickly developed that it seemed to have lost something. We don't see much of Shanghai in Shanghai.

Think of Shanghai and you'll picture the Bund, the Oriental Pearl tower (you know the one that looks like a phallus-looking space shuttle from Austin Powers?).

Dig deeper and you might think of the Expo and the Peace Hotel.

Further deeper, you'll get the Bund (again). Muse2 maybe. Gong Li. John Cusack.

Shanghai of now lacks depth in character. It doesn't have a strong 风味.

It's too cosmopolitan. Just like our island.

And as Yakki went searching for photo moments, only the old caught his eye.

So here we are, paying tribute to the old of Shanghai. The characters that built Shanghai.