blog-2021/_posts/2010-02-13-just-off-the-main-drag.md

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post	publish	true	Just Off the Main Drag	2010-02-13 00:00:04 -0500	Personal

Well, the fabric market was closed today in honor of New Years Eve, so I took a walk down Nanjing Lu.

For the uninitiated, Nanjing Lu is one of the fancy shopping streets in Shanghai, closed to cars and always packed with people. Wild children, window shoppers, buskers, pick pockets, it's got it all.

What's interesting to me, and what seems to hold true anywhere I go in China, is that it is all a thin veneer. Just past the Omega dealer and the LaCoste store, you get right back into the run-down streets of the rest of Shanghai.

This door caught my attention today and drew me off the main drag and back into the alleys and side streets, where there always seems to be more to see.