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
Memory Lane
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. […]
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Giant Bicycles in Shanghai
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. […]
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Apartments in Shanghai
“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
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Best Shanghai Restaurants
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 […]
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Emerald Directions
! 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 […]
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Perfect Day in Shanghai
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
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Bicycle Shops
Shanghai actually has a reasonable number of high end shops. There is the Trek store near Thumb Plaza and there is also “Bicycleshop.cn”:http://bicycleshop.cn. The prices are the same as the U.S. it looks like at least from the site. They have two locations one is in Pudong. The new shop is on Zhang Yang Lu […]
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W.W. Chan Tailor
On the other hand, suits are much cheaper in China than in Hong Kong. “W.W. Chan”:http://www.wwchan.com/ is in the “Jin Mao Shopping Mall”:http://www.jinmao88.com/en/shopping/item/2004_02/793.shtml. They actually have three locations in Shanghai. You can get the finest Italian material and get it made essentially anyway that you want. A really high end suit with two pairs of […]
