SHANGHAI: Model vs Reality (Day 7)

After Friday's morning class, we went over to the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall. It was essentially government propaganda promoting redevelopment of the metropolis.

A gigantic display model of Shanghai to-be

View of reality outside the exhibition hall

What better thing can we do on a Friday afternoon than to go to a 7-storey bookstore after visiting an urban planning museum (especially for a geography arts student like myself)? Okay, I admit that we have no life and we were there for a few hours before we went to eat a Japanese dinner nearby (cheap but fairly expensive by Shanghai commoners' standards).

Japanese ramen (noodles) and gyoza (friend dumplings)