If you want to party like it is 1999 then in xintiandi the imaginatively named Good Hot Pot place is pretty cool. You don’t even need to swish your meat. A server does it for you. They hand slice the beef at your table. And the shrimp and fish are as fresh a you can…
Tag: Shanghai
What a trip down memory lane. Walked a few kilometers down Huai Hai Zhong Lu (淮海ä¸è·¯). It is funny how you can remember specific events when you pass certain places… Huang Pi Nan Lu。Sweating in a suit looking for the City Supermarket so I could make spaghetti dinner. Picking the groceries and dragging them home….
Hurray at last, you don’t have to go down to San Francisco and then fly by Seattle. The best routings now to Shanghai are: # United to ANA. This leaves 1PM and arrives in Shanghai via Narita at 9PM. There is a long layover in Narita # Air Canada. Go up to Vancouver and then…
American Airlines is also offering lots of things like double miles and bonus for Chicago/Shanghai. You need to register, so go to http://www.aa.com/apps/netSAAver/ViewAAdvantageAirlineSpecials.jhtml and register away! And as a reminder United’s list is at http://www.united.com/page/middlepage/0,,1249,00.html and remember they have a double miles and most importantly, all flights on United Star Alliance now count towards getting…
Someone was asking me where the Giant Bike shop is. This from Ken: There is a Giant shop near Carrefour in Jinqiao. Stella, who speaks English, has procured bikes for a lot of us. Her email and a map are below. She has good Giant bikes on the premises, but you can also obtain others….
“Lakeville Regency”:http://www.metropolis-sh.com/plink/as-Lakeville%20Regency.htm. This is supposed to be one of the nicest complexes in Shanghai. The second section has just been completed. Powered by ScribeFire. The Lakeville Regency
Even six months ago, it was hard to get many English language reviews of Shanghai restaurants, but thanks to blogging, that’s rapidly changing. Here are some sources based on a query of google:”Best Shanghai Restaurants”: “Frommer’s:http://www.frommers.com/destinations/shanghai/0717010028.html. Not surprising that this traditional print book has a top listing. Their “best bets”:http://www.frommers.com/destinations/shanghai/0717020003.html are some traditional ones including…
! Jin Xiu Road –> Hua Mu Road –> Yang Gao Road –> Century Avenue –> Lujiazui Pudong Airport 20 minutes Hu Nan Road –> Outer Ring Road –> Pudong Airport Hongqiao Airport 30 minutes Hu Nan Road –> Outer Ring Road –> Xu Pu Bridge –> Outer Ring Road –> Hongqiao Airport Bund (Wai…
I had the great fortune of hanging out with my buddy Steve for a day in Shanghai. He had never been to China so the challenge was how to show him something so complicated to explain in a day. I’ll call this my