I doubt I have many readers left around here, but here’s a link to a piece in UrbanVelo Magazine about city riders. They got some fascinating people to contribute their stories, and somehow my boring ass got included.
If you’re in the states and don’t mind, pick me up a copy of Issue [...]
Posts under ‘shanghai’
Urban Velo
A rude awakening
It started at 630 am.
on a Sunday.
Yeshari Xinjiangese Restaurant
Review of Yeshari Xinjiang Restaurant in Shanghai, China.
The Fat Olive
Review of the Fat Olive restaurant in Shanghai, China.
Shanghai Phomission #1: Aniseed
A few weeks ago a brilliant plan was launched on twitter to search Shanghai high and low for the best Pho available. While it may seem silly for a guy like me, so fresh to the city, to search for a non-native food, but I was simply following around friends on an adventure. [...]
Moving mountains by bike
Snapped from a taxi near Jing’an temple. Not a rare sight here…well, this pile was bigger than usual. Much much bigger.
I think this trike’s loaded with fish crates. I’m guessing they’re empty now and she’s on her way to recycle them. Peggy Liu from JUCCCE told me that China has 1/4th the consumption per capita [...]
Whiling away a Saturday
Whiling away a breezy Saturday on our balcony with a cocktail, watching bad tennis and even worse driving decisions. It was had to not heckle the Tennis players, but even harder to leave the driver alone.
Kissho of Tokyo: how not to eat
We’ve managed to eat at every restaurant at the city shop complex on Tianyaqiao Lu and Xingeng Lu, except the Applebees, Babydoll–a restaurant apparently geared specifically for Girls’ Night Out–and Kissho of Tokyo.
Here are some tips, from me to you, to help you learn how to avoid the landmines of surprise and dissappointment you may [...]