Little known fact, SmartShanghai gave The Avocado Lady her name (and she still won't do an interview). Then we gave Zhang Ayi -- a.k.a. "The Beer Lady" -- her nickname earlier this year, when Chris St Cavish wrote an article about her shop just off Fahuazhen Lu. Jin's translation of that on our 时髦上海 WeChat account got 115,296 reads in the first seven days, and basically changed Zhang Ayi's life.
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