We finally made it out to this house of fun out in Hongqiao. We found… A bunch of mental tweakers. It was surprisingly fun.
Post from the past; letters to the future. Sending out missives to our future selves at some of Shanghai's quirky postcard cafes.
Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts and make sure your seat back and folding trays are in their full upright position...
World Joyland. Now how much fun does that sound? A world full of lands of joy, all themed around World of Warcraft and Starcraft..
Sniffing around Shanghai's huge, foreboding Tilanqiao Prison, which sits in a surprisingly pleasant, historical area.
I met a traveler from an antique land, who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them on the sand...
Ah, a bright, spring day spent picking strawberries out in lovely Qingpu. Just us, some old ladies and a steaming tent full of bees...
From the ashes like a phoenix -- birdfishflower market # 555 rages against the dying light (read: moves a bit around the block, squats).
Grape expectations -- tripping out to the Malu Grape Theme Park in Jiading District, Shanghai's fount of grape knowledge and research.
Shanghai braces for 100 days of euphoric nausea. The Shanghai Carnival at the Shanghai Expo grounds -- who, what, where, why, and all that.
Yeah, nice park but does it have a VIP BBQ zone? Oh, it does. That's lovely... firing up the grill at Gucun Park. The rich eat.
AKA, flying too close to the sun on wings made of... 3-D dongs -- a journey to the next dimension of depravity in Hong Kong.
The trip back south to self-annihilation and reprogramming. Andy Best revisits the derelict Chiao Tai Golf Club. Nature takes it's course...
A trip around the Xuhui Riverside Public Space -- expectations low, soft focus on max. Climbing walls, skate parks, and ghost trains...
The promised land for antiques, curios, furniture, and crap, crap, crap. Shopping at the Mu Lan antique warehouse in Outer Pudong-land...
The long and twisted road to redemption is strewn with vodka, rum, brandy, Bailey’s, Kahlua, amaretto, Champagne, curacao, Jagermeister.
Forget the French Concession or the Forest Park -- the southern stretch of Shangnan is, by some distance, the most heavily wooded spot in the city.
We are on the eve of a great and wondrous time here in Shanghai -- a new renaissance, a cataclysmic rebirth, a period of unparalleled...
There's a clothing market with a refreshingly retrograde take on contemporary fashion. To most it's known as the "Anxi Clothing Market".
The first time I went to New York I stayed at the YMCA. I didn't know anyone in the city, I'd heard that Americans didn't really do backpacking,...
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yeah want to check this out. i like that venue too.