To cap any great meal, get a taste of local beer at a microbrewery: belly up to the Khan Brau, next to the State Central Library, or the Chinggis Khan Brewery, just left of the Children's Palace.
They financed some of Shanghai's finest colonial architecture, including the magnificent Children's Palace (formerly the Kadoorie estate, Marble Hall), the art deco Peace Hotel (then the Cathay Hotel) and Shanghai Mansions, a Sassoon building that was used to process, and illegally house at times, hundreds of refugees.