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Pencil This In: November 9-13
- A "cancer village" 220 km from Shanghai.
- Illegal abortions performed by at least three Shanghai hospitals.
- A little food poisoning never killed anyone. (Not true.)
- Oh, great. A new Tiffany store minutes from our apartment.
- Bokee signs agreement to distribute Movable Type blogging software in China.
- It was inevitable. The Beijing Olympic mascots have their own TV show.
- The majority of Chinese internet users are "male, unmarried, under 30, with educational levels below Bachelor's degree and monthly income less than 2,000 Yuan."
- A Shanghai blogger mentions two interesting rumors about the Bund (but unfortunately, he doesn't link to any of his sources).
Photo by 2 dogs. Yep, Shanghaiist's favorite little cafe has added a new location: Boonna 2, 57 Fuxing Lu (opposite JZ).
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The Bund rumor was in the Metro Express paper this morning, with government officials promising to investigate and tap public opinion.
Boonna 2? egads, the hipsters are overrunning Shanghai. Why do these clueless expats have to go around messing up a good thing? I was into Boonna before Boonna hit the big time, and now everyone's jumping on the bandwagon. Well, that's OK, because since all the rents are inflated and crazy in most of the city, i'm going to start my own low rent hipster enclave somewhere in Qing pu.
The climax of cafe restaurant is up Fuxing lu, past Gaoyou lu: Ginger.
Hmmm...mess up? It is still the same feeling/price level as for 2 years ago. At least according to my memory. I do not mind the "spread" of BOONNA at all, but maybe I am one of the clueless expats? I am no hipster for sure though...ha ha ha
I will be the first hipster to "un-cool" peijin's new place.
i was being facetious, which is my usual m.o.--i have a love/hate relationship with boonna. it was near my former place and it itself is a good place for food, coffee, cigarettes, wireless--all the good stuff--but the fact that there were so many hipsters (or whatever you want to call em), esp. those in related fields (media, photography) that i found myself eavesdropping on too many conversations, trying to find out how people make money (an eternal mystery me), or if they have all the cool jobs and career that i wish i had in order to catapult myself out of my bottom-dweller status into the world of expat bourgeois dignity.
unfortunately, my hearing is not so good.
2dogs, if you're interested though, boonna puts up photography, and the boss is willing to put up new stuff...i think i will do it in the near future.
@peijin:
I am low (profile) rider...looking forward to check ur pics uthough. Wouldnt mind have a cigarett and beer/coffe with u as well.
The rumor have u placed in US at the moment though, but them birds are singing the song of ur soon return. Hope to catch up with ya at some point!