Tonight is my last night in Shanghai, Chris, a colleague from MS Shanghai offered to show me around a little.  We went over to Pudong, which is on the opposite side of the river to my hotel, and hosts many of the local financial institutions. 

We went up to the top of the financial center, which is the tallest building in Asia (I will post separately about that later). Afterwards we wondered down to the river and found a great place called Paulaner’s Beirgarden, which was right next to the river Yangtze river. 

It was a great spot! There was some dodgy Chinese band inside singing ‘Hotel California’ and classics from Shakira, but we were outside so only had the pleasure of hearing them during visits to the toilets. We ended up chatting for a few hours, drinking a few glasses of wine/beer and enjoying the night time heat whilst watching the boats sail by.  Good times

Here is a little video of the place we were sitting…