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Shanghai in December, Breweries to Above the Clouds

·Shanghai, China·#winter#cityscape#architecture#travel-photography#china#shanghai
Two smiling men pose in front of a rust-colored building with a metal gargoyle logo and the words 'Stone Brew'.

First stop in Shanghai was Stone Brewing's outpost — the gargoyle over the door, same as home, felt strange to see on the other side of the Pacific. Inside was an old warehouse space with menus in two languages and an Enjoy By 01.01.19 poster on the wall, so we ordered a flight and worked through it, comparing notes on what survived the trip east.

That night we walked the Bund. The Oriental Pearl Tower sat directly across the Huangpu, lit purple and blue, all eleven spheres of it — 467.9 meters, built in 1994, and still the thing your eye goes to first out of that whole wall of Pudong towers. Barges kept sliding past on the river below.

The room was high enough over Pudong to look sideways at the Jin Mao Tower. In the morning the fog came in below us and swallowed everything except Jin Mao's spire and the top sphere of the Pearl, which poked up out of the cloud like a buoy. Somewhere down there, an entire city was starting its day in the gray.

Two smiling men pose at a table with four beers, one holding a glass, inside a busy restaurant.Two smiling men sit at a table with beer glasses, one holding a glass, in a casual restaurant.A night view of a city skyline with many illuminated skyscrapers, a colorful tower, and a river with boats.A brightly lit city skyline at night with a prominent purple and pink tower and numerous skyscrapers reflecting in water.Nighttime view of a city skyline with a colorful tower and illuminated skyscrapers, reflecting on a river with boats.A night skyline of Shanghai featuring the Oriental Pearl Tower, multiple lit skyscrapers, and a golden building.Nighttime city skyline with a dark skyscraper and a distinct pink-and-blue illuminated tower.A tall, tiered skyscraper rises from dense fog, with another distant tower against a twilight sky.

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