Evening - Night food streets (start 18:00)
Shanghai eats late. Begin on a night food street where the grills and woks run until well after midnight: crayfish in chilli and garlic when they are in season through the summer, skewers, griddled oysters, stir-fried rice cakes and bowls of rice wine. Your guide orders for the table and explains the difference between Shanghainese cooking and the Sichuan and Xinjiang stalls that share the same street.
Seasonal note
From late September to November the city turns to hairy crab, steamed and eaten with ginger vinegar; in winter the stalls shift to hotpot and braised dishes.
Late evening - Huangpu River cruise
Board a river boat and cross the harbour at its narrowest point. On the west bank the Bund runs a mile of banks, consulates and trading houses built between the 1890s and the 1930s; on the east bank Lujiazui's towers - the Oriental Pearl, Jin Mao, the Shanghai World Financial Center and Shanghai Tower - stand where farmland was in 1990. The whole skyline is floodlit until around ten.
Nightcap
Return to the Bund for a short walk, or finish at a rooftop bar with a view of the river. Your guide sees you back to your hotel.
Meals
Dinner
Accommodation
Evening tour - no hotel night included.
