What a messy city! Polluted. Well... After spending time in Shanghai, this city does not appeal to me at all with the heavy pollution, cramp streets, traffic rules pretty much non-existent at times. Maybe I have not spent enough time outside yet. But....
My impression is such: city overgrown very quickly because of economic growth. Streets cannot handle that many cars and people and bicycles and motorcycles. You either see very old buildings or very new buildings side by side.
Shangri-la hotel, opened this May, provided the best oasis in Chengdu. It has everything. You really don't want to get out once you are in there. The hotel was very grandeur and very service oriented. Cafe Z offered the best dinner buffet I had ever seen! 7 or so large food stations: Japanese, southern Chinese, northern Chinese, Mediterranean, Brazilian, Indian, bakery station, dessert station. If that's not enough, skewers of meat were brought out to your tables. The total cost: $138RMB or about $20CAD.
One thing though, food is cheap in this city even in hotels. Here's the thing, I don't think I could eat any food at street level. Too much pollutions!
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