Review of the Fat Olive restaurant in Shanghai, China.
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Little Red Bike Cafe: Save the Cutest Thing Ever
Not too many years ago two adorable people decided to open a tiny cafe in North Portland. I’ve eaten there many times and befriended them at least a little bit–they’re some of the few people who comment on this here blog from time to time–and I was saddened to hear a few weeks ago that [...]
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 [...]
Pepsi maxx
Tastes like pepsi mixed with brominated vegetable oil. How do I recognize the oil? It’s the filmy, saccherine oil slick that coats your mouth just like Mt. Dew does.
Las Tapas: Rare moments of peace
In Shanghai, there are rare moments of peace. Rarer still are moments of peace that I manage to photograph well.
At Las Tapas, visiting for a late Lunch gets you a quiet, 1/3rd full restaurant and a tasty and reasonably priced set meal. The mackerel was excellent, but skip the potato salad in favor of the soup [...]
Tales of woe from the backseat
We are two of the few people who move into an unfurnished apartment in China. The housing system works such that every building is a condoplex, and slumlords buy up apartments and rent them, furnished, to the plebes, for massive profit. This system has it’s benefits–no one really loses money when the system demands [...]
Baby Bok Choi
Girlie went on a grand business adventure to Xi’an and Chon Qing, which she summed up in this adorable bit of an email:
Could I put in a special request for comfort food and perhaps even a beer? ”Comfort food” in this context would be anything home-cooked that does not involve any of the following, all of which [...]