Shanghai again... the only city in China that I miss. Your photos are making me nostalgic.
In all my time in Shanghai I only made it to Old Town once, and I spent most of the day at Yuyuan. It's really as close to "traditional China" as you get in Shanghai. I always laugh though, at the photos of these long lined buildings with pagoda roofs on everything and a skyscraper or two in the background, because I think a part of me was expecting every city block in China to look like that back when I first arrived. Then reality kicks in and we all start asking ourselves "what was I thinking, coming here?"
Gotta love your Chinglish photos though. I wish I had the album I collected during my time in Beijing. Restaurant menus are the best. I saw a menu once in a restaurant at Changying Mall where there was a dish whose Chinese name translated as "spicy twin-river fish." The English translation they put on the page was "two rivers and a spicy fish."
In unrelated news, how do you get this twin-column format in an article?