Melting Pot at 288,Tai Kang Lu (off Sinan lu or Maoming lu)
It has mainly Chinese bands playing every night. A friends band (western) plays blues on Sunday Nights and there is a jam night every Monday. Quote: "Bar 288, The Melting Pot is located on Tai Kang Lu, known as the Art-Street of Shanghai. Every night from 9:30 you can enjoy live-music from around the world and meet people from around the world. Bar 288 really lives up to its name The Melting Pot, it has an open stage and is the favorite place for musicians to jam."
Also 4 Live at 8 Jian Guo Zhong Lu near Chong Qing Nan Lu. It always has great local/western/mixed bands playing as well as a lot of dj/hip hop events (such as the very famous, best party in Shanghai, 'Bananas' parties). They usually post their upcoming events on Smart Shanghai.
You will NEVER find a Filipino covers band playing at these bars, they are not expensive to drink at (especially 4 live) and Melting Pot never has door charges (that I have come across).
― jergins, Thursday, 26 June 2008 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
some reviewer calls this the best vegetarian restaraunt in shanghai. i guess a lot of monks hang out there:
Vegetarian Lifestyle 枣子树, (1) 848 Huangjin Cheng Dao, near Shuicheng Nan Lu (6275 1798); (2) 77 Songshan Lu, near Huaihai Zhong Lu (6384 8000); (3) 258 Fengxian Lu, near Jiangning Lu (6215 7566). (1) 黄金城道848号,靠近水城南路; (2) 嵩山路77号,靠近淮海中路; (3) 奉贤路258号,靠近江宁路
― jergins, Thursday, 26 June 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
one hell of a list of vegetarian places, i've printed it: http://www.happycow.net/asia/china/shanghai/
― jergins, Thursday, 26 June 2008 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Shanghai Propaganda Poster Arts Center
― jergins, Thursday, 26 June 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
for a minute i thought we were going to get to see formula 1. but no. sad.
― lxy, Friday, 27 June 2008 03:41 (fifteen years ago) link
formula 8
― jergins, Friday, 27 June 2008 05:21 (fifteen years ago) link
now printing thread for reference
― lxy, Friday, 27 June 2008 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
thnk about avoiding: - BonBon (Forgive me, I was new here...spent 15 minutes there. Saw the porr schmuck get pasted) - Outside Bar Rouge - Park 97 - Outside Barbarossa - Judy's - Manhattan - and too many other bars on Lower TRL to mention...
― jergins, Saturday, 28 June 2008 07:03 (fifteen years ago) link
okay here i go
― lxy, Saturday, 28 June 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
hi crazy i am in u
― jergins, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
u guys just went to seattle chinatown district didn't u
― amon, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
if a local place served Babyshit Tofu, i'd sue
― jergins, Saturday, 5 July 2008 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
never has a city of so many needed so much wd-40
― jergins, Saturday, 5 July 2008 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i am not a man prone to grand statements (no, really), but that was the single worst cabride of my life last night.
i didn't think i was going to die but i was sure there'd be an accident and recriminations and somehow we'd be blamed, because we'd never have gone on that route had it not been for our destination. i could see the cabbie and cops yelling, the other driver irate because it was our driver's fault.
then we tipped him, 2 fucking dollars, just to get out of the car on the wrong side of the river.
― jergins, Saturday, 5 July 2008 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link
never have gone on that route
we'd never have gone on that route if i'd been driving. how can i know the city better, after a week, than this fool?
― jergins, Saturday, 5 July 2008 11:26 (fifteen years ago) link
babyshit tofu followed by ice cream of indeterminate fruit flavor. not durian but that would have at least had some once-in-a-lifetime cachet. this was just...ice cream you don't want to have.
― jergins, Saturday, 5 July 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
thankig u hangzhou hotel + heineken + "just" vs. "only" cute waitress conversation
― jergins, Saturday, 5 July 2008 11:29 (fifteen years ago) link
cute conversation. waitress was ok
― jergins, Saturday, 5 July 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
hello shanghai dear ones
― estela, Saturday, 5 July 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
plz explain babyshit tofu
― amon, Saturday, 5 July 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
no, really, you don't want to know
― lxy, Sunday, 6 July 2008 10:32 (fifteen years ago) link
ni hao, estela!
missin u guys, bored is lonely without u
― max max max max, Sunday, 6 July 2008 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
hi hi hi hi max max max max ! ! ! !
― lxy, Monday, 7 July 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i was thinking of posting a picture of a cicada (since we heard them every time we walked under a tree but never saw any) except GROSS they are disgusting and yes, we did see one: that is what crept into the hotel room in the middle of the night. YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK FOREVER AND EVER
― lxy, Monday, 7 July 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
well look where we found to eat http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/IMG_0210.jpg
― jergins, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
aw don bo fun!
― lxy, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 04:29 (fifteen years ago) link
some people eat cicadas here. i haven't heard them yet this summer
― amon, Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
how bad was customs?
― amon, Thursday, 10 July 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
china's was fine, it was canada that fucked me like usual. ever since i got strip-searched and rejected at the quebec border in 2000 i've been on their equivalent of a no-fly list or something. in vancouver i ended up in the secondary customs/immigration line. the place was some kind of sad 21st century ellis island. what a beleagured batch of humanity: the saudi trader under immediate suspicion, the mexicans who had never left mexico, happening to take a vacation in BC, arab families, overseas chinese with no english, their child speaking for them. i overheard some shit, security to security "Where you have him now?" "He's in the fishbowl" i mean wtf canada i hate u most when you seem like the usa. my wait in line was nearly two hours, just standing there, jetlagged, knowing i'd done nothing wrong. fuck you canada i won't go back you fucking dicks.
― jergins, Thursday, 10 July 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
jesus. is that the closest airport
― amon, Thursday, 10 July 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=7478
― amon, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
cicadas are banhammered
haha no we have our very own airport here. it's just how the tickets worked out that j. flew sea > b.c. > shanghai, whereas i flew sea > tokyo > shanghai. my experience w/ immigration was not so awful as his, proving that sometimes canada is more american than than america is.
― lxy, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i talked to serenity today. until a few weeks ago her parents lived on a golf course in a gated community in far pudong out to the east.
i guess their new building is all chinese, except for them, and close-in.
she actually said "when i get to the airport i'm so happy to see a white person." um ok. all the white people in line were totally fucking annoying except for the one cute canadian. i liked the chinese more!
― jergins, Friday, 11 July 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
that's pretty uhh. not only the white people in line but every where else too, pretty much. the blacks in china seemed okay, though.
― lxy, Saturday, 12 July 2008 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
love my chinese african people they are going for it and it is commendable in such a fucked place
― jergins, Saturday, 12 July 2008 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
less fucked than africa tho which is why it makes such sense (wrote 'suck sense' and realized how drukn i am)
― jergins, Saturday, 12 July 2008 03:10 (fifteen years ago) link
21st century emigration patterns are like the most interesting thing people IT IS TELLING US HOW IT IS NOW
i fear me throwing PEOPLE into every third post will become the equivalet of chaki's 'GOD'
― jergins, Saturday, 12 July 2008 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
'people' is perhaps too expansive on a board 5 people read
― jergins, Saturday, 12 July 2008 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
persons of interest
y bcuz u all r intrsting
CONFIDENTIAL TO THE BROTHER IN SHANGHAI KFC: lxy loved u
― jergins, Saturday, 12 July 2008 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
cctv's website is cracking me up http://english.cctv.com/index.shtml http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/beijingolympics.jpg
― jergins, Sunday, 13 July 2008 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
请准备从火车的左边下来
― lxy, Sunday, 27 July 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
"And finally, there’s the stinky tofu. Wafting down every alley and byway in Taipei is the unmistakable and often appalling odor of this unusual food. The grilled sausages and squid, with their smoke and flame, are the most visible street food in Taipei, but they are not the most aromatic.
The effect of stinky tofu on Westerners is a universal wrinkling of the nose, such as a Chinese person might feel after stumbling into a cheese factory. Summoning up some courage, I ate a piece of stinky tofu, albeit well-smothered in soy, vinegar, garlic and chili sauce. It has a sharp flavour, not at all similar to the smell. And how does it taste? You won’t know until you give it a try." so says travelintelligence.com
― lxy, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
and now we know. thanks! neatorama has some good pics of what probably is the world’s largest scale model of a city
― jergins, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
HEY HOW COME we didn't go to the street where they sell nothing but adhesive tape
― lxy, Friday, 8 August 2008 08:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j95/wsbadmf/random/emot-iiam.gif
― jergins, Friday, 8 August 2008 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link
just watched andrew zimmer get owned by stinky tofu in taiwan
― amon, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link