Lucky for Shanghaiist, we won't be. But we certainly feel for people who will be stuck in the city for the holidays. So we've compiled an incomplete list of a few things to keep you occupied while your friends are back home drinking eggnog and getting wasted with family around the Christmas tree. The first time Shanghaiist went to the Yinqixing Indoor Skiing Resort was back in the SARS era (2003). We went back this......

Ever felt like you want to “escape from the modern city of Shanghai”? And drench yourself in “a captivating jungle experience unlike any other?” If your answer is “yes” and “yes”, then we have heard of just the spot for you. No, it’s not the wilds of Tanzania, nor the Amazon Rainforest -- we are, of course, talking about the newly opened Lucky Greens Miniature Golf Course, located on the sixth floor of the Cloud......

Driving in Shanghai...

Shanghai may have a lot of things we don't like -- traffic, pollution, tons and tons of people, the list goes on -- but there is one thing about the city Shanghaiist particularly likes: nothing is impossible here. Enter the bar Taste of Scandinavia, where everything is on the rocks -- even the customers. Billed as the first ice bar in China (and Asia, they claim ... but what about Russia?), it has definitely added......

Quick -- How many Papa John's locations are there in Shanghai? If you said 15, either it was a lucky guess, you eat too much pizza or you get out a lot more than Shanghaiist. Papa John's opened its 15th Shanghai store earlier this week. It's a dine-in restaurant -- unusual for the delivery chain -- at 999 Changning Lu, near Zhongshan Park. "This is my first trip to China and I have to tell......