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We Made It Out To This Smurf Park. So How Weird Is It?

Something borrowed, something new, something Smurfy, something blue.

Sex Toys and Traditional Medicine: Revisiting the Health Products Mall

Your immune system needs daily boosting.

We Visited The Beer Lady's Giant Beer Kingdom In Songjiang

Onwards, to ever bigger fridges.

Shanghai Grows China’s Best Peach. This is Its Fascinating History.

Shanghai's honey nectar peach has an illustrious past.

Can We Finish Shanghai's Biggest Bowl of Noodles?

Hand-pulling our love for Lanzhou La Mian to the absolute breaking point.

The SmSh Guide to Eating in Shanghai's Koreatown

Screen golf to street market to banchan shops and Korean-Chinese comfort food! Make a day of it...

Hey, The Botanical Gardens Are Open! And In Full Bloom!

A day trip out to the Shanghai Botanical Gardens for grandparent selfies, flower porn and lots...

The New Natural History Museum is Five Years Old. It's Still Fantastic.

A LONG trip through the dinosaurs, the Origins of Life, and questionable taxidermy. Meng!

The Complicated Story of the Cat Man of Xujiahui

Michael Shirazi feeds a lot of cats. At least that much is true.

[Offbeat]: The Tao of Ear Cleaning

Getting up in the crease with an ancient Chinese ear care technique.  

[Offbeat]: Birding in the Nanhui Wetlands

Birding? In Shanghai? A trip out to the marshes and wetlands of coastal Shanghai with one of the...

The Sleep No More Superfan, Explained

As the immersive play hits 500 shows, we talk to its most loyal and biggest fanatics.

[Offbeat]: The New Guangfulin Relics Park in Songjiang

We visit the massive museum park dedicated to a time when Songjiang was Shanghai, instead...

Protected Pork: An Afternoon at the Meishan Pig Species Protection Farm

Spending the day with Shanghai’s most ugly / adorable pigs

Gone Fishin' (Under Some Scary Power Lines in Pudong)

SmartShanghai goes to the Luyuan Fishing Leisure Center in search of real big fish. Oh, you...

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