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No 1 Food Store
This
store
( 720 E Nanjing Rd; 10am-10pm)
is bedlam, but this is how the Shanghainese
shop and it's lots of fun. Trawl the ground floor for dried mushrooms, sea cucum-
bers, moon cakes and dried fruit. Built in 1926 and renovated in 2012, this used to be
Sun Sun, one of Shanghai's big department stores.
Shanghai No 1 Department Store
Opened in 1936, this
department store
( 800 E Nanjing Rd; 9.30am-10pm)
was formerly
known as the Sun Company and was one of E Nanjing Rd's big department stores
(with Wing On, Sun Sun and Sincere) and the first equipped with an escalator. Today,
it averages 150,000 shoppers a day.
Moore Memorial Church
This Methodist
church
(316 Middle Xizang Rd)
was designed by legendary Shanghai ar-
chitect Ladislaus Hudec in 1929. Hudec also designed the nearby
Park Hotel
(170 W
Nanjing Rd)
, once Shanghai's tallest building.
