Shanghai No 1 Food Store

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Brave the crowds to check out the amazing variety of dried meats, mushrooms, ginseng, chicken feet and sea cucumber, as well as more tempting snacks including sunflower seeds, nuts, dried fruit, moon cakes and tea. Built in 1925 and redone in 2012, this used to be Sun Sun, one of Shanghai’s big department stores.

There are restaurants on the 3rd floor.


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