Originally Posted by
gapilot
Since this is our first trip to Shanghai, and didn't know FT'ers prefer Puxi, I'm glad we chose that area--Courtyard Marriott, to be exact.
It's not that we prefer it so much that it is the true Shanghai. By the way, lots of people hate the term Puxi because it puts such a large area under one blanket. I'm not sure it even existed as a word before 1990 or so (there was no point back when nobody crossed the river).