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Eat Your Way Through Shanghai
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espite nearly 178,000 restaurants to choose from in Shanghai, sometimes it’s just nice to cook and eat at home. Whether you want to go to the grocery store and find some familiar imported food or order in from your favorite pizza place, these shortcuts to eating and drinking at home in Shanghai will certainly make your life a bit easier.
Supermarkets
with a Western Familiarity Ole’
One of the largest international supermarkets in Shanghai, Ole’ offers over 70 percent imported products from overseas and an extensive range of domestic goods. Seafood is prepared fresh daily by Japanese chefs, and Ole' features a cool concept kitchen that hosts wine tastings and cooking classes. Also available is a huge array of fresh produce, exotic fruits and vegetables, salad, meats, fish, dairy, an extensive cheese selection and an abundant array of dried and canned goods. There is also a decent wine and liquor selection, and a range of baking and household appliances. > Various locations, www.crvole.com.cn/ole/
City Super
This upscale supermarket chain, originally from Hong Kong, offers a premium selection of imports with locations in Lujiazui, Jing’an Temple, Huangpu and Hongqiao. Each location serves as a one-stop shop for a wide selection of groceries, prepared foods, produce, homeware and lifestyle products from around the world — albeit a bit on the pricier end. They’ve also got a diverse array of fresh food counters. > Various locations, www.citysuper.com.cn/
City Shop
Stocked with all our favorite foreign and local brands, this is a good option for both instore and online shopping. Delivery is free if you order online and spend over RMB200 (and who are we kidding, trying to spend less than RMB200 on groceries, especially your imported necessities, is nearly impossible). All orders before 3pm will be delivered within 24 hours, except in the Chongming area where orders are only delivered on Saturdays. > Various locations. 400 811 1797, www.cityshop.com.cn
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Carrefour
With around a dozen locations across Shanghai, the French supermarket chain offers a wide selection of local products, fresh produce, home goods, electronics, appliances and more. Carrefour’s selection of imported foods and wine is a bit limited, but what you’ll find find is cheaper than at some of Shanghai’s other import grocery stores. > Various locations, www.carrefour.com.cn
FreshMart (Jiu Guang Mall)
A behemoth Japanese-owned supermarket hidden beneath Jing'an Temple, here you'll find an impressive selection of imported sundries and fresh produce. In addition to a staggering selection of condiments, cook's ingredients and general household items from the Land of the Rising Sun, they also have imports from Europe too, including diapers, children's sunblock and much more at the back of the store. On the upper levels of this mall is an excellent household department store, stocking bed linen, small kitchen and bathroom appliances, children's toys and clothes of verifiable and traceable quality. > B/F, Jiu Guang Mall, 1618 Nanjing Xi Lu, by Huashan Lu 久光美食广场,�南京西路1618号,�近华山路. Open daily, 10am-10pm.