Overview of articles about 'Shanghai Life' Category

Changing Behavior in Shanghai
It is raining day today and it was also raining a couple of nights before, when I went out to get some cigarettes at the Kedi supermarket on the corner.
Armed with my umbrella I saw another foreigner approaching me, and we friendly nodded to each other. Passing each other our […]

There we were, waiting to do some banking business. Due to the Bank of China policy of too few available employees on their busiest day of the week, being Saturday (the guard told us this fact, the busy part to be specific), we spent many minutes staring at other people getting money from the […]

Shanghai Consists of two Parts if you generalize it a bit.
There is Puxi and there is Pudong. West (Xi) from the river and East (Dong) from the river Huangpu. Puxi has been there for ages and has all the old buildings. Pudong is relatively new, built on swamp land and home to futuristic architecture.
Pudong […]

I am sure I will never make it as a copy editor:) but these were the words that came to mind reading a classified in the SH magazine.
A pawn shop or individual offering its services to poor foreigners. A niche I never thought of before.

The only time I wandered into a pawn shop […]

Last Saturday we went to Shanghai Circus World. As it is quite a nice thing to do on an afternoon I have made a special circus page. Enjoy.

It’s Friday so this picture may be appropriate. The photo was sent to me by a friend and I have no idea whether it’s recent, old etc. I don’t feel like taking a taxi to Hengshan Lu, Shanghai to check this. It is funny though.
Update: Marc writes that the sign was first put up […]

My warranty of my dell laptop is running out and Dell China reminded me of this already a couple of times. Now I do know that they know that I am a foreigner. For those simpletons living in China they actually have an English interface.
The emails they send out have, how convenient, an […]

Hello, I am an English teacher, How are you?
It’s 15:00 and I just finished my hamburger in Rendez Vous. It’s freaking hot and we’re waiting for a taxi on Nanjing Xi Lu/Tongren Lu.
I am fine, thank you, while keeping my eyes focuses on available taxis.
Where are you from?
Slovakia (I intended to say Mars but […]

Steel is still in short supply in Shanghai. Manhole covers disappear, phone booths, traffic lights and now steel bean art.

Did the metal scrap dealer think one steel bean less doesn’t make much of difference for the real art lover? Did someone just not appreaciate the art?
There are 2 beans left for at least […]

It was dark outside when we entered and almost darker when we were inside the Shuffle bar, a new place in Shanghai.
Luckily the waiter had a flashlight which was useful for ordering.
We went there to hear The Georgia Sam Blues Band (plus pretending to be still young and into the scene, at […]