Jordan Calinoff

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• Posted Central Kitchen Project makes lazy people happy to Shanghaiist
  While in America a non-delivery Chinese restaurant is an oxymoron, in China the most famous restaurants choose not to serve the lazy. However, everything is about to change! While you’ll still have to get off your ass and out of the house, you’ll only have to walk to the nearest supermarket for all your favorite dishes. The "Central Kitchen" project will collect partially cooked dishes from Shanghai’s trademark restaurants for sale in such hypermarkets as...
• Posted Shanghai to open cruise terminal: Con artists rejoice! to Shanghaiist
  As if Shanghai taxi drivers didn’t already have enough foolish foreigners to rip off, soon the most gullible of all tourists, cruise passengers, will be arriving. By the end of this year, a brand new cruise terminal will be opening at the northern end of the Bund. The US$260 million dollar site has been under construction since 2004 and is expected to hold up to three luxury cruise liners. Around 1 million tourists per year...
• Posted Jade on 36: Parental visit = best meal ever! to Shanghaiist
  So last week the parents were in town and that meant fancy food for free! We decided to take them to Jade on 36, the Paul Pairet helmed restaurant in the Shangri La, and even we were surprised at how amazing it was. We can say without a doubt that it was one of the best, if not the best, meal of our lives. And we’ve eaten at a bunch of those uber-haute restaurants named...
• Posted Shanghai officials tout fancy asphalt to Shanghaiist
  In an effort to cut down noise pollution, Shanghai officials are turning to what they know best, the Future. On the Nanpu and Lupu Bridges, a new form of state-of-the-art asphalt will be used in hopes of eliminating unendurable decibal levels in the city’s noisiest areas. In some areas of the city, nighttime decibal levels have already reached over 100 (around the same noise level as a chainsaw); scientists claim that anything over 60 is...
• Posted Shanghai's biggest drug lord to be executed to Shanghaiist
  It’s the end of the line for Shanghai’s most notorious drug lord, Li Bin. Shanghai’s highest court has turned down his appeal against a death sentence decision from October of last year. Along with Li Bin, 19 members of his gang were given life sentences. What does this mean for Shanghai and the world in general? No more k-holes, suckers! Finally somebody can write what will possibly become China’s Goodfellas. Li’s story is straight out...