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Slither and Burp: Beer Plus Adds SNAKE MENU to Yunnan Lu Shop

While I've been over here pondering exactly how much styrofoam is safe for my cats to eat, the...

Famous Suzhou Noodles Land in Shanghai: Yu Xing Ji

Last year, I wrote about how you should go to Suzhou to eat noodles. But I forgot, in Shanghai,...

F&B Crumbs: The "What's Been Taking Them So Long" Edition

Sometimes the city just has these little bits and pieces of news from the F&B world that you want...

Dumplings Index Redux: Man Long Chun Goes Classy on Yongkang Lu

I promised and I swore and I promised a second time I’d never write about soup dumplings again....

The Shanghai Shengjian Bao Informative Graph

Author of "The Shanghai Soup Dumpling Index" is back with more science and a guide to the four...

The Yang Jing Bang Pop-Up Returns This Weekend, Sounds Like It's Going to Taste Good

After well-received and mostly sold out seatings at a slew of restaurants in 2016 -- Egg, Pirata,...

[On The Radar]: Ban Ban, OH.MY.BURGER, Ruin, Crafted

A supersized version of "On The Radar" this week. Here's everything new out there in the city to...

The Food and Philosophy of Dragon Well Manor

Chris St. Cavish has a meal with Dai Jianjun, owner of world famous Dragon Well Manor in...

The Great Cross-Cultural Zong Zi Taste Test

A meeting of the minds as two of SmartShanghai's professional Chinese food critics taste test 7...

Cotton Club Closing, Milkshake Bar Coming Soon, Farine's in Hot Water

Hey, Shanghai. Can you space the news out a bit better? It's on-off-on-off with you, all the...

[The List]: Shanghai's Centuries-Old Restaurants

Ten places that have been dishing local favorites since the Qing Dynasty. Here's our guide into...

Exeunt Ruijin Cajun; Enter Palmetto, the Latest from Paul Gray

After their quick and surprising closure at the start of this year, the back corner space next to...

[Back of the Queue] : Guangdong's Cheese-Topped HEYTEA

I tried HeyTea, the self-proclaimed creators of the cheese-topped style tea, that requires you to...

[A Bunch of F&BS] Things You Didn’t Know About Are Opening in Hubin Dao and AB InBev Wants Your Soul

Hold onto your butts, diners and drinkers, we’ve got a million things to tell you and less...

Friday Newness: Foreplay, Pret, The Chop Chop Club, and Pawsome

Hey, drinkers and diners. It’s that time again. A bunch of fancy new places open, old...

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