[2024 Shanghai Stay] Travel Guide for Xijiao State Guest Hotel (Updated Oct)
Seafood Freedom - Taste of Ou River.
Wenzhou - a city with over 2,200 years of culture
Facing the sea, with a thousand-year-old granary
The hidden seafood lover in southern Zhejiang...
From now until November 30
Xijiao State Guest Hotel "Taste of Ou River" Autumn Seafood Festival
Let's eat all the "seafood" by the East China Sea
Realize seafood freedom
Ou River, this fertile land has bred rich products and unique flavors. Seafood is the protagonist on the local table. Fresh and plump East China Sea seafood is neatly placed in the freezer for you to choose. After the careful cooking of the chefs, it turns into a delicious dish with color, fragrance and taste, which is drooling.
Salt and pepper nine-belly fish
A plate of golden salt and pepper nine-belly fish, take a light bite, the skin is crispy, the meat is white and greasy like snow, smooth and refreshing like tender tofu, and it melts in the mouth. Be careful when you clip it, it will disperse with force.
Home-cooked sea sword shrimp
Home cooking can fully reflect the fresh and sweet taste of sea sword shrimp. Its shell is thin and soft, transparent in color, tender and delicious, and is a childhood memory of many Shanghainese.
Braised white pomfret
Braised pomfret is particularly particular about the heat and the combination of seasonings, presenting an attractive color, sweet and salty, salty and fresh, memorable. The fish is plump and plump, and the rich and delicate sauce wraps the fish body, immersing people in the wonderful taste of classic taste.
Chicken oil steamed yellow croaker
The white and tender yellow croaker, the meat is still shining. Take a light sip, the fish meat blooms gently on the tip of the tongue, and then paired with the soup head made of chicken oil, the simple cooking method is fresh and refreshing.
Avoid the wind pond green crab
The golden and crispy shell is filled with fresh and juicy green crab meat. On a cold autumn night, sitting around the table, the hot wind pond fried crab is served, that fragrance is intoxicating
Inverted stew Yan Ting crab
Wash the crab and put it in the pot, pour in a sufficient amount of yellow wine until it covers the crab body. Add a lot of ginger and green onions, boil over fire and then simmer over low heat. The delicacy of crab meat and the richness of wine are perfectly combined, as if a gorgeous taste feast is blooming in the mouth.
Home-cooked big white shrimp
Thin shell and tender meat, thin and transparent shrimp shell, white and tender shrimp meat, Q-bomb taste, home-cooked method brings a full rich sweet taste, releasing a intoxicating pleasure.
Taro baked mandarin fish belly
Full of taro aroma, the mandarin fish belly is clear in color, the fish belly is soft, salty and delicious, it melts in the mouth, bypasses the chewing process, and only leaves a soft and fat taste.
A large number of seafood on the market in autumn
Covered crabs, plump shells, all kinds of fish and shrimp...
The plump East China Sea seafood is drooling
Taste the "fresh" good season
Come to Xijiao State Guest Hotel for a big meal
TravelEnthusiast
Shanghai's Royal Secret: Unveiling the Xijiao State Guest Hotel!
This free park, located in the city center, is hidden within Shanghai's most mysterious old state guesthouse—the Xijiao State Guest Hotel. As the largest five-star garden villa-style state guesthouse in Shanghai, it boasts a history of over 60 years. The '414 Reception House,' which was once accessible only to celebrities and dignitaries, is now finally open to the public, which is truly exciting! Imagine this place as an ancient royal retreat, with a zoo nearby, reminiscent of a royal hunting ground. Although there are many state guesthouses in Shanghai, the Xijiao State Guest Hotel holds a unique and unparalleled status!
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Shanghai Xijiao Hotel has its own (moving) flower (animal) garden
✨This mysterious state guesthouse was built in 1960, covering an area of about 1200 acres. As soon as you step in, you will find winding rivers, famous ancient trees, pavilions, and small bridges complementing each other, as if you are in a beautiful painting.😍
🌳This place is really huge; it takes about 2 hours to walk around. It is definitely a rare urban forest oxygen bar. On scorching days, coming here to feel the coolness and tranquility of nature is simply too pleasant.💦
☔Rainy days are also very suitable for taking emotional photos. The key is that there are not many people, so you can easily take great shots. Whether you like photography or want to relax, this is definitely a great place to visit.📷
📍Address: No. 1921 Hongqiao Road, Changning District, Shanghai. Non-residents can enter directly from the Hongqiao Road gate, but some parts of the water pavilion garden and zoo require guests to enter.😉
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🌟 Shanghai's Secret Dino Oasis 🦖🌴
Ready for a prehistoric adventure in Shanghai? 🕵️♂️ Dive into a lush, Jurassic escape at Xijiao State Guest Hotel! Imagine walking into a tropical rainforest, greeted by a towering T-Rex and a velociraptor trying to escape its cage. 🦕
This place isn't just a stay; it's an experience! The hotel's 'Natural West Lead' Secret Rainforest Exhibition is a hit with families, offering up-close encounters with dinosaur parades and stage performances that'll electrify your stay. 🎭
Beyond the dino delights, Xijiao Hotel oozes luxury with its grand decor and plush conference center. Step into the back garden and you're in a serene oasis, with mirror-like lakes, playful ducks, and swans. 🦢 Every corner is a photo op in this tranquil haven!
And guess what? This magical spot, once exclusive, is now open for all to enjoy. 🎉 Cruise down a tree-lined path to a forest oxygen bar that's a stone's throw from city attractions. So, whether you're here for the dinos, the luxury, or the peace, Xijiao State Guest Hotel has it all.
📍1921 Hongqiao Road, Changning District, Shanghai
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The 'Natural West Lead' Secret Rainforest Exhibition, an enchanting journey
As soon as you reach the entrance,
you'll see a super imposing T-Rex 🦖,
as if welcoming everyone into this mysterious world.
Inside, the greenery is incredibly rich,
with coconut trees 🌴, palm trees, and agave,
making you feel like you're in a tropical rainforest. There's also a velociraptor struggling to break free from an iron cage,
so realistic!
The passageway also features dinosaur fossil display cabinets,
allowing us to learn a lot about dinosaurs 📖.
The suburban plaza has a special plant area, with plants like pitcher plants, mosses, air plants, staghorn ferns, begonias, and more, each one is super unique,
making you want to take a closer look 👀.
The activities during the event are even more exciting,
with occasional stage performances that make the atmosphere electrifying,
and at the Yuehuo East Court on the first floor,
there will be occasional dinosaur parades,
making it feel like dinosaurs are walking around you,
so much fun!
This 'Natural West Lead' Secret Rainforest Exhibition is really worth a visit,
don't miss it 😜
AudreyLopez_94
A garden-like hotel
Xijiao Hotel, as an established state guesthouse, boasts a grand and luxurious decor style, with every detail exuding extraordinary quality. The conference center is even more luxurious and imposing, fully equipped with all necessary facilities. Whether for business meetings or high-end events, this is the perfect venue.
Swipe your card to enter the hotel's back garden, and it feels like stepping into a world of lush greenery. The lake surface is like a mirror, with wild ducks and white swans leisurely swimming, adding a touch of liveliness and harmony to the serene scene. Here, every frame is a stunning landscape, making people stop and capture this rare tranquility and beauty with their cameras.
📍Address: 1921 Hongqiao Road, Changning District
RestlessWanderlust
This deeply hidden secret garden is now open to the public
It was all over social media recently, being hailed as the 'Altai of Magic City'. Previously, it was only accessible to hotel guests or those with a consumption order, but now it's 🆓 open to everyone!
🚗 Drive into the winding path, with towering ancient trees on both sides. About 1 kilometer in, you'll reach the conference center (where the parking lot is located). Nearby, there are lawns and rivers, small bridges over flowing water, a veritable forest oxygen bar. What's more, it's not crowded, and you can sit or take photos on the riverside lawn at will!
🧭 Xijiao Guest House
🚇 Exit 3 of Shuicheng Road Subway Station, 🉑️ you can ride a 🚴 into
🅿️ If driving, enter through the Hongqiao Road entrance. There's a parking lot near the conference center, 8 yuan/hour
Surrounding attractions 🐾:
➡️ Shanghai Zoo 🚗 10mins
➡️ Jinting Manor 🚗 15mins
➡️ New Hongqiao Central Garden 🚗 10mins
MichaelMacIntyre291
Luxury hotels wouldn't even dare to dream of such guest room amenities
Yes! There is a pair of national birds, the red-crowned cranes, which are protected species, in the garden of the guest room area!
Always believe in the old cadre's pursuit of excellence! The true definition of luxury! All those Aman, Six Senses, and Ritz-Carlton hotels have to step aside!
The design, dominated by the fiery red and golden sun, is a taste that you wouldn't understand without having experienced the tumultuous years of military life! This type of design encapsulates the great achievements of the older generation of Chinese designers who combined Soviet aesthetics with Eastern aesthetics—understated, self-disciplined, serene, and dignified. It also shaped the main tone of Chinese home decoration at the end of the 20th century.
Additionally, one cannot help but admire the details
The service is as refreshing as a spring breeze:
Firstly, the owner is of impeccable revolutionary lineage, and the clients are mostly government agencies. The waitstaff have seen a world far beyond that of luxury hotels—high in both appearance and emotional intelligence! What left the deepest impression was during the trade war period when China-US negotiations were held in the hotel, and it was still open for normal business!
Location:
It can be considered Shanghai's backyard, with the airport nearby, convenient for foreign affairs meetings
In summary, I personally think that for real luxury in China, you have to look at the various state guesthouses frequented by old cadres. In the lobby, there are only the most distinguished scholars, no commoners. Whether a luxury hotel project gets approved might just depend on asking someone staying at an old cadre's guesthouse, right?
Recommendation index: Highly recommended
Dining: Recommended
Service: Top-notch luxury
Location: Shanghai's backyard
Complaint: No need for a card to access the guest room area, but I guess no outsiders would dare to enter anyway
deeanna.vasquez.australia
Garden of the Xijiao Hotel
The Xijiao Hotel in Shanghai is the largest five-star garden villa-style state guesthouse in Shanghai, covering an area of 1160 acres. The garden is planted with famous trees and ancient trees, exotic flowers and plants, and pavilions, terraces, and waterside pavilions embellish the 80,000 square meters of lake surface. In the past, the Xijiao Hotel was rather mysterious, but now it has been opened to the public. Currently, the Xijiao Hotel is divided into an external garden and an internal garden. If you are visiting the hotel for an event or meal without staying, you can only walk in the external garden. However, if you stay at the hotel, you can swipe your card to enter and tour the internal garden. At present, the hotel offers a tour of the internal garden for 158 yuan per person, free for staying guests, which needs to be booked one day in advance, and the tour lasts about an hour.
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The Mysterious Xijiao Guest House
Before the reform and opening up, many guest houses in Shanghai were not open to the public, especially the Xijiao Guest House at No. 1921 Hongqiao Road, which is a state guest house in Shanghai with a large green area and beautiful scenery. For more than half a century, it has been carrying the important task of receiving the highest national leaders and top world dignitaries. Everything here is extraordinary, and everything is full of mystery. Therefore, it is known as the 'Diaoyutai of Shanghai' or the 'Imperial Garden of Shanghai'. Before the liberation, it was originally the villa of Mr. Yao Xizhou, a famous builder, and his eldest son Yao Naichi; after the liberation, as the owner went abroad, the house was requisitioned by the state to build a guest house. Later, Building 4 of the Xijiao Guest House (originally Yao Naichi's residence) became an important part of the Xijiao Guest House complex and was listed as one of the first batch of outstanding historical buildings in Shanghai.
The Xijiao Guest House was established in 1960, covering an area of about 1200 mu, with winding rivers and ancient trees planted throughout, and its unique pavilions, towers, and bridges blend naturally with the flowing water. The guest house has various types of presidential suites, suites, executive rooms, deluxe rooms, and villas with different styles, as well as a grand and well-equipped conference center, making it a place for high-end meetings, conferences, and large business banquets.
After the Xijiao Guest House was used as a state guest house, it was not open to the public for a long time and was only known by a mysterious numerical code—414. This was because during the 1960s, when Shanghai was heavily engaged in war preparedness construction, many guest houses were digging air-raid shelters, and the Xijiao Guest House, which was then the second guest house of the municipal committee, did the same. Not only were tunnels dug, but a war command post was also prepared for the leaders at the time, with all kinds of facilities, codenamed 414. Not far from 414, there was also the former 415 guest house, now known as the Hongqiao Guest House.
Now for tourists, the Xijiao Guest House can be divided into the inner garden and the outer garden. The inner garden is a large area on the southwest side of the guest house, named 'Garden Tour', which can only be entered by guests with a room card. The outer garden is around the main road from the southeast gate to the northwest gate of the guest house, and visitors can tour as soon as they enter the guest house. Stepping into the garden, you can see the winding stone paths, undulating lawns and camphor forests, crisscrossing rivers, lakes as wide as mirrors, and exquisitely elegant bridges and pavilions... The sound of birds and cicadas in your ears, and little squirrels jumping around in the branches. It's hard to imagine that there is such a 'Peach Blossom Land' in the bustling area of Shanghai.
Today, the now-open Building 7, 'Mutual Residence', was once the specific accommodation for heads of state and dignitaries from many countries in the world. On the first floor, there is a coffee and rest area, and on the second floor, the Peony Hall is a buffet place.
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Overnight, a thousand cherry trees burst into bloom, offering a spectacular view at Shanghai's Nanfeng City
In the early morning, as the first ray of sunlight pierces through the clouds and sprinkles over this sea of cherry blossoms, I feel as though I can hear the sound of the flowers blooming. Each tree is draped in a light veil of pink and white, like clouds gently descending to earth. A gentle breeze stirs, and petals dance in the wind, falling like a soft pink rain, slowly drifting down to create a path leading to a dreamy realm.
I wander through this dreamlike sea of flowers, overwhelmed and moved by the cherry blossoms. Each blossom seems like a masterpiece of nature, fleeting yet splendid, reminding us of those beautiful moments in life that, although they pass quickly, leave a lasting impression.
🗺city walk route: Near Hongqiao Nanfeng City
🌸The area is bustling with shopping districts, close to the Shanghai Zoo, Shanghai International Dance Center Theater, and Liu Haisu Art Museum.
🏷There are many business buildings nearby. If you're visiting Shanghai and want to avoid large crowds, consider staying in the Tianshan Hongqiao area for a different experience.
➡️Hotel recommendations: Shanghai Xijiao Hotel, Shanghai Tianshan Plaza Grand Hyatt Hotel, Shanghai Hongqiao Guest House, Shanghai Hongqiao Hotel, Shanghai Hongqiao Jin Jiang Hotel, Shanghai Yangtze River Lihsing Select Hotel, Shanghai Gubei Xi Yue Hotel, Shanghai Changning Xianxia Road Atour Hotel
EpicJourneys
The wonderful memories of Shanghai Xijiao Hotel
The wonderful memories of Shanghai Xijiao Hotel
I went to Shanghai Xijiao Hotel, stayed in Building 7, tasted afternoon tea, ate buffet, walked in the garden, and admired Swan Lake~ Everything was so beautiful that I often have wonderful memories after leaving Shanghai Xijiao Hotel.
Shanghai Xijiao Hotel was established in 1960, located at 1921 Hongqiao Road, Changning District, Shanghai, is a five-star garden villa style state guesthouse.
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Shanghai West Suburb Hotel
Shanghai West Suburb Hotel
Friends meet at the Shanghai West Suburb Hotel, and once again understand and appreciate this once mysterious hotel. The Shanghai West Suburb Hotel is located at No. 1921, Hongqiao Road, Changning District, Shanghai. It was established in 1960 and is a five-star garden villa-style state guesthouse, covering an area of about 1200 acres. The hotel is full of famous trees and ancient trees, strange flowers and weeds, and pavilions and waterside pavilions embellish the 80,000 square meter lake surface.
Since the establishment of the Shanghai West Suburb Hotel, it has received more than a hundred batches of domestic and foreign political figures. The APEC Summit, the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the fifth anniversary celebration were all held here.