Went out to an interesting (and pretty tasty, but not spicy enough) communist themed Sichuan restaurant near Shanghai Stadium called 9车间 (“Workshop 9″). A big statue of Mao greets you at the entrance and the interior looks like a factory with tables set up all over the main factory floor and some cool private office type rooms you can reserve at the back.

There are several old communist era lathes and various other factory machines lining the exterior of the restaurant, and most walls are lined with party slogans or posters of farmers, scientists, factory workers and soldiers harmoniously looking towards the future together. The staff are dressed in communist worker clothes and even the cups and plates are styled of the era.

I’m not sure where the ‘minimum 400 RMB charge for table in private factory room’ falls into the workers paradise though…