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Now is the season for chomping down on delicious crayfish, and CNNGo has highlighted some of the best places to get some already (so we won't update ours )... but - not to spoil your xiaolongxia outings or anything - some places may not be very sanitary. One of the places you're most likely to...
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Photo taken by Jackson Lowen On Thursday, thanks to the organizational capabilities of a certain Atlantic/Foreign Policy writer + Shanghai blogger , we had a grand old time at the Shanghai Expo drinking ourselves silly. For those of you who prefer pubs over pavilions, the Expo grounds actually offers...
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Evolution happening faster than we previously thought could be the reason for a scourge on half of East Asia: The Asian Flush. Apparently, this super annoying, cancer causing , alcohol inhibiting gene may have arisen from our inability to control ourselves when we first discovered alcohol. From an interesting...
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Despite a genetic curse that renders half the population unable to drink the stuff without turning beet red, Chinese people have been downing beer for tens of thousands of years. And now you can drink their 9000-year-old beer recipes as well. Dogfish Head Brewery's Chateau Jiahu was concocted from...
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Following the embarassment of finding out that melamine was still in the milk , years after the first scandal rocked China and the world , China has decided to change rules... relating to protein levels. By lowering the new minimum protein level of raw milk to 2.8% from 2.95%, officials are hoping to...
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Ever wanted to know about the people behind Shanghai's (nay China's!) only burlesque club? Gosney and Kallman's Chinatown almost never came about thanks to problems with the license and possible "vulgarity," but it has now opened for almost a year now and has been featured in magazines...
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You’ve seen the One with the Shark Porn and the bit when Rachel and Ross finally kiss - but how about the one where the chengguan hassle Gunther about his windows? No? Maybe you should check out Central Perk in Beijing’s Central Business District then, where local resident Du Xin (aka “Gunther”...
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At least, according to Baskin Robbins. Their "Happy Expo" flavor is: "A field of chocolate and mint ice creams tossed with chocolate mint cookies and littered with red and yellow chocolate chunks." It's pretty obvious what the red and yellow stand for, but the Mint? Maybe it represents...
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Congratulations to the Sherpas Slurpas! While it looked quite harrowing at times, these crazy chuggers managed to out drink their competition with aplomb. They won 2000RMB in our chugging competition, which they've decided to give to Roots & Shoots ! That's a couple more trees in Mongolia...
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Last year, Shanghai's already established chains won the bulk of the awards at That's Shanghai 's annual Food & Drink awards. But with the Shanghai market growing ever more accustomed to one-off fine dining projects (here's looking at you Dongping & Yueyang Lu), maybe this year...
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Photo of Jean Georges from Flickr user Silly Jilly Dining City, who hosted Shanghai's "first ever" Restaurant Week back in late April-early May, will be brining the dining event back again in the fall. In a press release, they announced that Shanghai's "second ever" Restaurant...
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Are you ready? We are and we're hoping the weather is too! Even if there are sprinkles though, we have three floors of the Boxing Cat to run rampant around! Anyhow, if you're looking for any info for the party, it's all here ! Starts at 11pm, ends at 4pm and all the food, revelry and contests...
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Two tidbits of nightlife news from SmartShanghai: Sin Lounge , which City Weekend readers named to be one of their favorite places (go figure!), is in a dispute with their landlord and will be closed indefinitely. On the other hand, Shelter had their first week back from the weekday ban. For the last...
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Shanghaiist and Boxing Cat Brewery present THE DUKES OF HAZZARD DO SHANGHAI! 4th of July, 2010 11 am to 4 pm Boxing Cat Brewery 82 Fuxing Xi Lu, near Yongfu Lu ALL YOU CAN EAT AND DRINK Beer, wine, house pours, burgers, dogs, wings & sides galore! LIVE MUSIC Boss Hogg, featuring Jeff Davis (guitar...
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Artwork by Pop Zhao At least that seems to be what restaurants think, according to the blog DeluxZilla . Apparently, annoyed that the company's coke vending machines are taking away from drink sales and sapping electricity, Expo restaurants have now been just unplugging them. Says DeluxZilla: Unless...