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Thread: what do u think about shanghai girls?
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[quote=XIAOBAIHE,391976]JIMMYB, you guys's statements have out away from the theme of this thread. Here is the one excerpted from NewYorkTimes that says something true about the most beautiful oriental pearl- Shanghai, a great city with the most diligent folks nutured by unique culture. Tokyo vs. Shanghai: A style standoff By Kaori Shoji Published: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 SHANGHAI — At the fashionable 1920 Café in central Shanghai, young women decked out in Dolce & Gabbana converse over elegant cups of jasmine tea while at the next table a group of men in impeccable black turtlenecks ogle them from behind horn-rimmed glasses. The atmosphere is hip and subdued with just a whiff of sleaze - a ghostly remnant, perhaps, of the days (around 1920) when the city was popularly dubbed "Whore of East Asia" and "Pearl of the Orient." The big difference: Back then, the average Shanghainese wouldn't have been able to frequent a café like this one, where a cup of coffee is $2.50.This place would have been a hangout for colonialists and Western merchants. Now it's where Shanghainese models and their boyfriends come for a quiet talk before joining their friends for dinner. It's where designers show work samples to prospective clients before heading off to, say, the famed V.I.P.nightclub financed by the pop diva Faye Wong. There's no doubt about it, Shanghai is nowthe most exciting city in East Asia, usurping Tokyo's position as No. 1. [/quote]
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