We will start the bike ride in the Former French Concession on streets shaded by beautiful trees.  Then we will make our way to the international settlement in Jing’an District and stop by at a small restaurant for a traditional Shanghai-style breakfast. We will try the famous Four Heavenly Kings (Chinese pancake, fried dough, steamed sticky rice balls, and soy milk).

We will then continue our tour to another local restaurant to sample their soup dumplings. Some say they have the best ones in Shanghai. After that, we will take the bike lane along the Suzhou Creek and have a sandwich on the Bund. On our way to the Huangpu River, we may try China’s most popular street food, jianbing.

As it will be close to Christmas and the hotels on the Bund will be beautifully decorated, we may walk into some of them and check out the holiday decorations.…