SHANGHAI

ok two weeks from like right now

we'll check this next week http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/events/

ahh crap the shanghai international wine and spirits fair is this week and we're missing it

muji
2/F Wing's Dept. Store, 863 Nanjing Xi Road, Shanghai

Subway Line 2>Shimen No.1 Road Station> Exit No.2

h&m
Lu Wan shopping heartland.
Shanghai Cloud Nine,suite 1200
No. 1018
Shanghai -

uniqlo

Grand Gateway Plaza

* Address: F4 Grand Gateway Plaza, #1 Hongqiao Road
* Metro: Line 1, Xu Jia Hui

Raffles City

* Address: F3 Raffles City, #268 Middle Xi Zang Road
* Metro: Line 1 and Line 2, People Square

zARA
Shanghai Times Square on Huaihai Road

windows underground thursday weekly dance night

oh baby

http://www.urbanrail.net/as/shan/shanghai-map.gif

reading the thorn tree and getting some advice, worth a repost for future reference:

strikingsunset just listed a nice big list of bars I'd put a "avoid avoid avoid" list - especially anything near Tongren Lu and Big Bamboo (although admittedly Blue Frog has an excellent burger, but I'd just as soon avoid the entire Tongren Lu scene and go to the one on Maoming or Lujiazhui)

If you want to hang out at the nicest bars in Shanghai (which, conversely attract the biggest wankers in town) - any of the bars on the Bund - Attica, Glamour Bar, Bar Rouge, De La Coast. If you have the money to spare, I at least recommend going to one of those places at least once. They ARE the nicest bars in town, despite being populated by wankers. The views make it worthwhile.

As for me? I like laid back, chill places. outdoors at Face. Cotton's. Mao. Yongfoo Elite. The Spot is okay, even though it's near Malone's. Mint. Volar.

If you need a sobering moment, you can continue your sightseeing by taking the subway's Line 3.
It's elevated for most of the way, a great way to get a city overview come rain, hail or shine, and will even return you to your drinking hole in time for the next shout.

http://shanghai.urbanatomy.com/thatssh/
http://www.shmag.cn/nightlife
http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/Channels-nightlife.phtml

The area around Julu Lu and Fumin Lu has come up again recently - used to be trashy bars but it's imprved of late. It also tends to avoid the slighly toursity/businessman feel of the Bund bars (though i must admit to a liking for Glamour Bar).

I also love Velvet Lounge, Tara, People 7, JZ Club, Cotton Club.....

glamour bar, bar rouge, fenestre, maybe some of those places up at the New Factories. Face is good too - but it's not quite as current. Guandii and bonbon for clubbing.

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).

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

one hell of a list of vegetarian places, i've printed it:
http://www.happycow.net/asia/china/shanghai/

Shanghai Propaganda Poster Arts Center

for a minute i thought we were going to get to see formula 1. but no. sad.

formula 8

now printing thread for reference

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...

okay here i go

hi crazy i am in u

u guys just went to seattle chinatown district didn't u

if a local place served Babyshit Tofu, i'd sue

never has a city of so many needed so much wd-40

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.

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?

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.

thankig u hangzhou hotel + heineken + "just" vs. "only" cute waitress conversation

cute conversation. waitress was ok

hello shanghai dear ones

plz explain babyshit tofu

no, really, you don't want to know

ni hao, estela!

missin u guys, bored is lonely without u

hi hi hi hi max max max max ! ! ! !

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

well look where we found to eat
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/IMG_0210.jpg

aw don bo fun!

some people eat cicadas here. i haven't heard them yet this summer

how bad was customs?

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.

jesus. is that the closest airport

http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=7478

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.

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!

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.

love my chinese african people they are going for it and it is commendable in such a fucked place

less fucked than africa tho which is why it makes such sense (wrote 'suck sense' and realized how drukn i am)

21st century emigration patterns are like the most interesting thing people IT IS TELLING US HOW IT IS NOW

while in shanghai jergins and i wondered how cold it would have to be at home before we wished for shanghai heat. friends, today at the bus stop i tried to manifest shanghai heat.

i expect i will try again tomorrow.

http://www.netgoose.co.uk/pages/Huangpu.html

pretty good series called "both sides of the huangpu"

yup, looks like the place

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/shanghai_prepares_for_expo_201.html

http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2010/04/15/shanghais-metro-now-worlds-longest-continues-to-grow-quickly-as-china-invests-in-rapid-transit/

re: pajamas in public
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/opinion/17gao.html