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The New York Times has published a new travel piece to our little town titled “36 Hours in Shanghai.” While we'd normally roll our eyes and scoff at these kind of articles and their incredibly milquetoast recommendations (Oh really? We should try the Jean Georges? Thanks! Taste of China indeed!), we think this guide would actually represent a fun day-and-a-half out for Shanghai newbies. We'd probably skip Crystal Jade and 100 Century Avenue (unless you like expensive, mediocre food in uncomfortable chairs), but we applaud the inclusion of Lost Heaven and Yang's. Next time our friends come into town, it's nice to know we have something to forward to them if we're too lazy to come up with a travel plan ourselves.
New York Times: 36 Hours in Shanghai
The New York Times has published a new travel piece to our little town titled “36 Hours in Shanghai.” While we'd normally roll our eyes and scoff at these kind of articles and their incredibly milquetoast recommendations (Oh really? We should try the Jean Georges? Thanks! Taste of China indeed!), we think this guide would actually represent a fun day-and-a-half out for Shanghai newbies. We'd probably skip Crystal Jade and 100 Century Avenue (unless you like expensive, mediocre food in uncomfortable chairs), but we applaud the inclusion of Lost Heaven and Yang's. Next time our friends come into town, it's nice to know we have something to forward to them if we're too lazy to come up with a travel plan ourselves.
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I don't think Crystal Jade is expensive. . . nor mediocre. I would, however, not recommend it for visitors (dim sum in Shanghai? Why not Shanghainese food? Xin Jishi - or Jishi - if you can get in)
Oops, I was talking about 100 Century Avenue with the expensive/mediocre statement.
I like Crystal Jade, but yeah - if you only have 36 hours in Shanghai, why would you go for Cantonese dim sum (that's not even one of the best in town really).
I disagree. I wouldn't recommend a trip to Xintiandi to anyone who is only here for a few days, and I'm still rolling my eyes.
I'm rolling my eyes with Plusein. The only non food/bar/clubbing recommendations are Bund tunnel, foot massage, a couple museums, and shopping. *eyeroll*
Quoting:
http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/asianamericanbios.html
Aric Chen
Aric Chen is a freelance architecture/design, decorative arts, art, and fashion writer in New York. He is currently a contributing editor for Surface, I.D., and Interior Design magazines, US correspondent for Interni (Italy), and was formerly a contributing editor for Dutch (Holland), as well as a reporter for the Intelligencer column of New York magazine. He has also contributed to: The New York Times, Art & Auction, GQ, Paper, Elle Décor, Azure, Dwell, ArtNews, House & Garden, Art on Paper, Black Book, Departures, Graphis, Jalouse, Metropolis, MIXT(E) (France), Print and others. He guest-edited the March/April 2003 issue of I.D. magazine and writes a monthly art column on the widely-read fashion website hintmag.com as well as a biweekly column for the recently-launched Architect's Newspaper. He is currently writing a book on the history of the Campbell's Soup Kids (Abrams) and is contributing to a book on the work of designer Vladimir Kagan (Pointed Leaf). In addition, he wrote an essay for the book American Dream: Houses at Sagaponac (Rizzoli), and is now working on essays for a contemporary drawing and photography exhibition catalog (ANP) and a book on T-shirts (Abrams). In 2003, he was the consulting design director for Sublime American Design, a store in New York's Tribeca neighborhood exclusively selling the work of American designers.
He is originally from Chicago, received a BA in architecture and BA in cultural anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MA in the history of decorative arts and design offered jointly by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Parsons School of Design. He has interned at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt, The Art Institute of Chicago, and Butterfields auction house. In addition, he has been a guest speaker at Parsons, the Cooper-Hewitt, University of the Arts (Philadelphia), Carnegie Mellon University, and Konstfack (Stockholm).
I remember when Dan Washburn wrote one of these things a few years ago for another publication. That was worth reading...
Maybe my expectations for these are so low that when I actually see something a number of things I WOULD do on the list, I'm shocked and awed.
And c'mon, the tunnel is fun and foot massages are super fun (except I wouldn't get it at Dragonfly).
What I found most interesting is that the NYT did another "36 Hours in Shanghai" story just 2.5 years ago. See if anything has changed:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/travel/15hours.html
Wonder if they'll do another one next year? Aren't there other cities in the world worth spending 36 hours in?
Where did he get these recommendations? Lonely Planet China 2001?