Shanghaiist: New York Times: 36 Hours in Shanghai

Jimmy Page

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:30:52 +0700

Where did he get these recommendations? Lonely Planet China 2001?

Dan Washburn

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:01:58 +0700

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?

Elaine Chow

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:42:19 +0700

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).

Micah Sittig

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:34:27 +0700

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...

Plusein

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:46:43 +0700

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.

Elaine Chow

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:26:04 +0700

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).

T

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:20:04 +0700

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)