Around Shanghai: Food safety, taxi etiquette and Han Han's Solo
- Another case of technology for perhaps technology's sake? Expo officials announced that all food entering the 2010 Expo grounds will monitored with Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to ensure the quality and safety of the food. [Shanghai Daily]
- This Saturday the Charity Flea market comes back to Shanghai with an array of art, clothes, books, handmade crafts, and kitchenware, etc. for sale. All entrance and table rental fees go to the charity Stepping Stones, which works to provide free English classes to migrant children. [City Weekend]
- The heavens have decided to open up and inundate us with rain this week, as a result the search for a taxi becomes even harder. Explore some rather colorful insight in Shanghainese taxi etiquette, aka How to push past others and jump in a free cab. [Urbanatomy]
- Shanghai's own literary bad boy, Han Han, has just come forth to announce the publication of his new magazine. The outspoken writer recently been blogging about the first issue of 'Solo' which is due to come out at the end of November. [CNN-GO]
- It seems that Shanghainese children have rotting teeth, suffer from high-rates of obesity, and have poor vision. On the flip side of things, the kids here are generally much healthier than their peers in other provinces and cities across China. Yikes for the rest of China. [Shanghai Daily]
- On-again off-again and now on-again (hopefully for good) burlesque club Chinatown is playing nice with the rest of the F&B industry. If you're part of that group, bring your business card down to the front desk at Chinatown and you'll get an "Industry Love" VIP card, which gets you 20% off every Wednesday night. No luck for all us regular folk, apparently. [SmartShanghai]
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