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The Neon Owl

“Your photos all start at 10pm. You have never seen a Chinese city in the morning and you're not going to start now.”

The city you know switches on after dark: neon, rooftop bars, KTV rooms at 2am, the last skewer stall still open. It is a real version of the place — just not the one on the postcards.

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Where Shanghai Locals Actually Eat Benbang CuisineShanghai's own cuisine (本帮菜, benbang) is sweet-leaning, homey and easy to miss between the tourist traps. These are the restaurants locals actually named when a foreigner asked — plus the street-level classics.

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