Back in business: Rediscovering Shanghai after the pandemic

The white pigeons of People's Park, which is known as Shanghai's green lung. ST PHOTO: LOUISA LIM
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SHANGHAI – Chocolate is not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of China.

Imagine my surprise, then, when I spontaneously enter Chocolate World, a two-storey boutique in the east of Nanjing Road, Shanghai’s famous shopping street, drawn in by the neon-lit signs.

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