Monday, November 23, 2009

Atmosphere Shanghai 1920

Art deco interior with an oriental touch to decorate Warong Shanghai Blue 1920.

Lion dance, dragon, lantern, cake baskets, and decorated all in red is a common decoration before the Lunar New Year celebration. Almost all shopping center is adorned with decorations. Similarly, many restaurants and hotels that offer Lunar New Year dish.

But the euphoria is not applicable in the restaurant Warong Shanghai Blue 1920 is located on Jalan Kebon Sirih, Central Jakarta. Restaurants serving Peranakan China and Batavia atmosphere was more offers themed interior art deco without special Lunar New Year decorations in general. Here, you can celebrate the new year in the atmosphere the interior with an elegant touch of China.

Nuances of strong art deco jumped at the foot of our time in Shanghai Blue interior. Solid color mix of red and blue with decorative elements used tempo style nostalgia brings us to the era of 1920s Shanghai.

Old photographs, paintings, and posters art deco style of the city of Shanghai became nuanced decorative element in the corner of this restaurant. Furniture, too, is characterized by a combination of wood furniture in Indonesia and China art deco style.

According to the General Relation Officer Warong Shanghai Blue Handle Saladin in 1920, this restaurant was established to commemorate the Sunda Kelapa Warong Shanghai, founded by women from Betawi Mpok Siti with her husband Djaenab Peranakan China blooded male or Babah named Chan Mo Sang. Both opened a grocery shop which provides tea.

Then it developed into a small shop diner Peranakan cuisine of China and Betawi. Not only to eat alone, this shop is also a center of entertainment for the sailors who stop at Sunda Kelapa port in those days. In this small shop is a bar, where sucking opium or opium at that time was still legal, where sew clothes, shaving, and also to dance in the middle of a jazz accompaniment.

Now, the remaining memories of Shanghai Public Sunda Kelapa is still framed in the restaurant Shanghai Blue. Not only in the atmosphere the interior alone. But also in the food menu. Maybe it could be your inspiration and your family celebrate the Lunar New Year.

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