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We were leafing through the latest City Weekend* over breakfast this morning when we realized we forgot to tell you something very important: We love Southern Barbarian (南蛮子). It's a Yunnan restaurant that opened in the fall (we have mentioned it briefly twice before). It is easily one of our favorite restaurants in the city, Chinese or non-Chinese. The food is fantastic — tasty and plentiful — and it is cheap (especially when compared to another Yunnan restaurant that opened recently). An added bonus is that Feng Jianwen, the owner (yes, he's from Yunnan), is a lover of beer — the result is the best selection of bottled beers we have ever seen at a Chinese restaurant. There's Hoegaarden, Chimay, Coopers (Sparkling Ale and Best Extra Stout), Leffe and a bunch of others. They are priced reasonably, too. Hoegaardens are 28 kuai; Coopers are less than that. Or you can always just get a tall bottle of Suntory for 6 kuai — they have that, too.

The restaurant is called Southern Barbarian, and it is up in Zhabei District, our old stomping grounds. They sent us an email back in September. Here is what it said:

Unfortunately, Shanghaiist didn't make it to the actual track meet, the main attraction of which was the 110m men's hurdles, where Liu Xiang narrowly beat out American Allen Johnson, clocking in at 13.07 to Johnson's 13.09. You can read about some of the other results here. We heard from someone who attended that the musical performers, which included Karen Mok, Lee Hom Wang, and Macy Gray, were lackluster. We didn't make it to the dinner afterwards either, but thanks to Aimee at Blue Frog we made it to the last stop of the night -- the post party, held at the Life Hub, a shopping/entertainment complex up on Gonghe Xin Lu, near Daning Lu in Zhabei District (yes, Zhabei District). Blue Frog catered the event (and is opening a new store in the area) where Liu Xiang was presented with an award and where the other athletes got a chance to drink, dance, and let off some steam. You can check out some of our pictures from the night above.

"The most lavish and high tech show in the history of Chinese theatre"? I'm sure it is.

If Shanghaiist had a nickel for every jogger we have seen along the streets of Shanghai over the past three years, we'd have, oh, about a quarter. There is a reason for this -- jogging along the streets of Shanghai will get you killed. And the Shanghai Police don't try to deny this. At 4:50 am on October 3, a jogger named Peng was hit from behind by a taxi on Wenxi Lu. And on October 20, a cargo truck ran head on into a jogger named Chen near the intersection of Gonghe Xin Lu and Zhonghua Xin Lu. What is the city's police doing to stop this run of deaths? Telling Shanghai residents not to jog ... on the streets, at least.