Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Wong Kar-wai’s new TV series draws Shanghai tourism" video.

  1. I remember Shanghai in the 90s. Yes, it was so dynamic, bursting with optimism and a desire to live life to the fullest. It was like every day presented new opportunities to reinvent yourself. But it was also much less developed than now. There were still slums in many parts of the city, two girls I knew literally grew up in a shack by the side of my street. They didn't even have running water. But it was also the beginning of Shanghai's wild nightlife, with a few pretty trendy clubs, mostly on South Maoming Rd. Nobody ate hotpot (火锅), or malatang (麻辣烫), or ganguo (干锅). There were no Starbuck's, no Burger King, no XinTianDi, no pedestrian street on Nanjing Rd. But it was a wild time!
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