Jiading
嘉定
The garden-and-water-town tier of Shanghai's northwest: Nanxiang's classical Guyi Garden, its soup-dumpling old street, and the district seat's own old town — all on Metro Line 11.
Jiading is Shanghai's northwest tier — the district of classical gardens and old towns that predate the modern city's sprawl, about 30–40 minutes from the centre on Metro Line 11. The area's anchor is Nanxiang (南翔): the town that claims the birthplace of xiaolongbao, the soup dumplings, with the Ming-dynasty Guyi Garden (古猗园) — one of the city's five great classical gardens, reported — at its edge and a free pedestrian old street of snack lanes, temples and Five-Dynasties pagodas at its heart. The district seat, Jiading town (州桥), holds its own old town and the Qiuxia Garden. The walking is flat, the metro reaches everything, and the food is the reason to linger: soup dumplings in Nanxiang, the district's rice-wine and local dishes along the way.
