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 The Green Dragon
What every neighborhood needs is a good old-fashioned boozer, a place to park yourself with a pint after a long hard day. Nominally speaking, ¡°The Green Dragon¡± doesn¡¯t match up to its English counterparts, with names like ¡°The White Hart¡± or the ¡°The Ferret and Trouserleg¡±. But the hardwood interior, comfortable lighting, darts, pool table and big no ¨Cso ¨Cyoung ladies, all of whom seemed parched. And broke. Yes, this is yet another ¡°talking¡± bar. With just one draft beer on tap, Carlsberg(RMB40), and a single white male clientele most likely slumming from the nearby Crown Plaza hotel, this bar leaves a bad aftertaste.Which is a shame as it¡¯s a nice looking pub, though perhaps better named, ¡°The Fat Lady¡¯s Arms¡±.
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1221Owner Michelle Liu's impeccable sense of style has made this one of Shanghai's most popular, particularly with foreigners. Open 11am-2pm/4-11pm. Res. suggested. No credit cards. show details |
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1931It¡¯s said that the past is another country, and they do things differently there. But that hasn¡¯t sopped today¡¯s hospitality entrepreneurs from taking a trip to the ¡®Days of Yore¡¯ gift shop, filling their trolley with 1930s old world ambience and casting it about their new bar/club/restaurant project. The owners of 1931 might well have snatched up enough bric a brac at this olden-days store to earn themselves a VIP loyalty card. Their handful of dark wood tables and faded flowery wallpaper on the less stained end of Maoming Nan Lu , nestles into the notorious bar strip like a time-warp pocket of what Shanghai might once have been. When you browse in the past you can pick and choose your purchases carefully. You don¡¯t come home with cartons of nasty diseases or kneecappings. Top buys are the souls of opium-loving intellectuals and beautiful women draped over chaise-lounges exhaling swirls of witticisms and blue cigarette smoke. 1931 stirs these purchases together with all the weight of China¡¯s qipao-clad history and serves it up to modern city diners seeking urban escapism. We escaped for lunch and returned for dinner, thinking it was only fair to observe the atmosphere by day and night. But it remained the same:a perpetual teatime, with just a faint brook of conversation soaked up by the velvet drapes and mahogany trim. The service is slow-but that¡¯s how the past is perceived to have been-and the food cosy, traditional Shanghaiese for those who don¡¯t know any better.Bng of that breed, we devoured lamb with leek, fried beef with black pepper(RMB60) and duck pancakes (RMB58). The whole experience wa robust and unsophisticated, and relatively inexpensive at RMB 300 for a meal for three with drinks. Owner Rose concedes she has adapted her dishes to appeal to the foreign mouths who make up 80 per cent of her clientele. Booking is essential on any evening and so her coffers are obviously swelling alongside the bllies. 1931 may appear to be an anomaly on Maoming, but then like the bars it¡¯s simply giving foreigners what they want from Shanghai. With its beggars and binging, the boozy end of the street is probably closer to 1903s Shanghai, but thankfully nostalgia allows you to pick what you want from the past and 1931 hangs ready like a ripe autumn apple.
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