For more than six hundred years the City God has watched over old Shanghai from this Taoist temple, a few steps from Yu Garden. Through the gateway you'll find the halls of the deities, the incense smoke and people praying for health and good fortune. All around it grew the city's most famous bazaar: shops, teahouses and the sweets of old, from pear candy to snacks sold by weight. A local's tip: go in quietly, look carefully at the details above the doors, then lose yourself in the alleys of the market. It's the perfect finale to a day in old Shanghai.
