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Our friends in New York told us that Matt Lauer of Today (that's an American morning television "news" show for those of you who don't have an illegal satellite television hook-up from the Philippines) was broadcasting live from somewhere on the Bund earlier this week. It was part of a special series called "Where in the world is Matt Lauer?," which he has been doing every year since like forever, it seems. We realize that many of our non-American readers may be asking "Who in the hell is Matt Lauer?" right now, so we will stop here. (Here's another video clip.)
Shouldn't it have been called Tomorrow?
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The whole segment was pretty funny. For the nightlife segment, they went to Xintiandi, which was an interesting choice, although they at least talked a little about the club scene. They also had a Western advertising expert who was pretty entertaining, but told Matt that there was no pizza delivery in Shanghai. I hope no one tells the Papa John's by my house, because it would suck to have to start going there to get my pizza ...
actually there are lotsa pizza deliveries in shanghai, most of which are free within 5 km. During my last stay this past summer i ordered like 4 days a week to avoid the heat, and let the bike riding delivery boy suffer instead. Just look at 8days magazine (called something else now) & at the back should be the takeout section.
At the advice of my Today show watching mother, I went down to the Bund on Thursday night while the show was being filmed. Lucky laowai that I am, I got a few minutes to the talk to the man. And he was astonishingly short. I think the camera adds a couple hundred pounds.
Yeah the guy is Tom Doctoroff, CEO of J. Walter Thompson Shanghai.
It was a funny to hear him say there are no pizza deliveries in Shanghai. There are quite a few restaurants you can get pizza delivered from!
Pizza Now
Melrose
Papa Johns
Una's Pizza
Yellow Submarine
Baci
Pasta Fresca
Prego's
Valley Gourmet
Maybe the CEO has never heard of Sherpas. Or maybe it is true that in Shanghai, only laowais eat pizza?
Yellow Submarine has abusive delivery drivers. Threw a handful of change very hard into my girfriend's face cuz I asked a stupid question, I wanted some basic service is shanghai. Never use them again.