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".
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The real fun in going to Fuxing Island is in diverting as you go; willfully looking to get lost. But merely reaching the island becomes something of a...
A haunted house! Shanghai's, and ostensibly, mainland China's, first haunted house. Shanghai Nightmare has taken over a crumbling 1902 warehouse on the...
One of the very first things you learn in Mandarin class is that "Shang Hai" means 'above the ocean'. But no one teaches you how to find the damn thing.
The sea-route to Japan is one you can take yourself any and every Tuesday morning. The journey starts just a short walk north of the Bund.
There are some odd people out there, and even odder fetishes; nothing reveals this more than a trip to Shanghai's Sex Mall
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