Sick and very quick. Factory Five wheel out their first batch of custom-built fixed-gear frames. Local bike shop with home-grown gear.
It's Chinese New Year, which means evil spirits are on their way to curse you with a year's bad luck. Scare them away with a new pair of red pants.

The promised land for antiques, curios, furniture, and crap, crap, crap. Shopping at the Mu Lan antique warehouse in Outer Pudong-land...
Finding the right fit in Shanghai -- options for larger sizes in ladies shoes around town: expensive, cheap, custom, and beyond...
This past July, Take 5, opened their first shop in the Mainland China. They stock a wide range of brands and styles of superfine Japanese denim -- the...

A friend invited me down to the new lavish Gibson Flagship store to see probably the most expensive guitar available in China: a 59 Les Paul Custom VOS.

OMG, it's like soooo nice outside! The weather's is sooo *warm*, I can't even handle it! The long winter is like, totally finally behind us!
There's these guys, the Cen brothers. They make woks, by hand. They are the only ones in Shanghai doing so, and they sell their handmade woks...
I didn’t want a ferret when a friend of mine tipped me off to this shop’s existence, but now that I’ve been down there, oh man now I do. Totally.

For us computer-type people some genius invented the USB-powered footwarmer, thereby offering to the world what I consider to be the absolute hight of...
The appearance of taste, sophistication, and a rich inner life through the ownership of authentic Shanghainese antique furniture.
"Covet" is a celebration of the mass accumulation of commodities. Basically, it's just seeing purchase-worthy stuff around Shanghai and...

Not really too much explanation needs to be done for this one. I want the biggest TV available to me in Shanghai. Price is no object.
A lethal arsenal of swords, butterfly knives, daggers, throwing stars, numchucks, and metal spike gauntlets.
Loomoo is a vintage toy store on Shaanxi Bei Lu, about a block and a bit north of Nanjing Lu. They specialize in recreations of tin wind-up toys circa...
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