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Shanghai Snapshots: The Expo tastes like Mint Chocolate Chip

Shanghai Snapshots: The Expo tastes like Mint Chocolate Chip

At least, according to Baskin Robbins. Their "Happy Expo" flavor is: "A field of chocolate and mint ice creams tossed with chocolate mint cookies and littered with red and yellow chocolate chunks." It's pretty obvious what the red and yellow stand for, but the Mint? Maybe it represents every Expo goer's wish for a cooler day. more ›

Baskin-Robbins now open (kind of) in Shanghai

Baskin-Robbins now open (kind of) in Shanghai

You might have missed it during your week-long gorge on Chinese food (like us), but Baskin-Robbins opened up shop in Shanghai over the Spring Festival holiday. According to their press release, the ice cream purveyor now has two locations in the city and plans to open a third one in February. While the press release frustratingly didn't tell us where the new shops were, we were able to find them after a bit of investigative snooping (okay, a lucky taxi ride just happened to drive us by one). more ›

Dippin Dots: The latest menace in Shanghai frozen desserts

Dippin Dots: The latest menace in Shanghai frozen desserts

It's easy to get excited about Dunkin' Donuts and the arrival of another Best Buy will at least offer us a more customer-friendly electronics shopping experience, but can Shanghai really handle the full frontal in-your-face Americana that is Dippin' Dots? For the uninitiated, Dippin Dots are little balls of liquid nitrogen-enhanced ice cream that look like smallpox, feel like Styrofoam, and taste like redneck. Fine, maybe they don't taste like a redneck (they taste like a cross between real ice cream and chalk), but the association is so deeply ingrained that you'll swear after one bite that 'Dueling Banjos' is playing faintly off in the distance. Available only at amusement parks, shopping malls, and NASCAR-esque sporting events, they exist somewhere in the seventh circle of the American nightmare. more ›

Week Around the -ists

Week Around the -ists

What they're saying about CCTV9 anchor Edwin Maher

What they're saying about CCTV9 anchor Edwin Maher

The last time an anchor from our favourite TV channel made it to the news, he created such a brouhaha that culminated in the eviction of one coffee company from the Forbidden City. In the news this time is New Zealand-born anchor Edwin Maher who for many years before arriving in China was a weatherman with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The Los Angeles Times published a profile of Maher that started it all off. It... more ›

Tian Jia, heavenly fish

Tian Jia, heavenly fish

We finally made it out to Tian Jia, the superlative Japanese restaurant famous for serving only one kind of fish: toro, meat from the fatty belly of the bluefin tuna. Our first trip was right before we left for vacation three weeks ago, and our second was the first night we got back. Yes, we craved it the whole time we were gone. For those of you who were like us and never made a trip but heard all the accolades, now you can add Shanghaiist to the mix: this place is damn tasty. more ›

This Week In -ist: Elsewhere in the Gothamist Network

This Week In -ist: Elsewhere in the Gothamist Network

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... more ›

Don't forget the flea market today at Garden Books

Don't forget the flea market today at Garden Books

Great 80s party last night. Photos and stories coming soon. But first ... this is where we will be this afternoon: more ›

McDonald's delivery, McFlurries and a scavenger hunt

McDonald's delivery, McFlurries and a scavenger hunt

This may be old news (in fact, according to this link, it's almost three-year-old news) but we just learned over the weekend that McDonald's delivers in Shanghai, so we thought perhaps it would be new to some of you, too. We're not sure if every McDonald's in town delivers, but the one we were at in Yu Yuan (don't ask) does. The sign says they deliver between 9 am and 9 pm and require a minimum order of 50 kuai -- which means Shanghaiist won't be getting delivery anytime soon, since the only reason we ever go to McDonald's is for their ice cream. more ›

Expo round-up

Expo round-up

  • Shanghai cuisine is set to be "improved", so that a menu can be created for Expo visitors, and they're hoping that "Shanghai snacks in the 2010 Expo will enjoy such worldwide fame as sushi, hotdog, and ice cream." The competition to create new snacks is open to the public, and they say that people can participate via Sohu.
  • You can also contribute your thoughts about the layout and other details of the Expo by taking part in the poll on the Expo site, according to Shanghai Daily. However we had a quick look around and couldn't find much about it.
  • People's Daily reported an article (from China Daily) several days ago, which bemoaned the sacrifice of old land to make way for futuristic buildings, complaining that vintage Shanghai homes were being destroyed. The article pleads for this not to be the case with the Expo site. Good luck.
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Extra! Extra! Senators, boiled babies and 3,000 tons of shit

Extra! Extra! Senators, boiled babies and 3,000 tons of shit

Photo by idogu taken from the Shanghaiist photos page. To see your photos on our photos page, use Flickr and tag your photos "shanghaiist". Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site. more ›

I did not enjoy my meal. I will now beat you.

I did not enjoy my meal. I will now beat you.

Xinmin Evening News tells us (article in Chinese) that although a bowl of wonton usually costs several yuan, Mr. Shao paid over 3000 -- in fact 3103.18 RMB. more ›

Friendlies, face the facts: Your names are silly

Friendlies, face the facts: Your names are silly

The “Five Friendlies” themselves have received a warm welcome (meaning that people spent far too much money on them when they first came out) but no one seems to like that they're called "The Five Friendlies". Although in Chinese their names spell out “Beijing Welcomes You,” (Bei bei+Jing jing+Huan huan+Ying ying+Ni ni=Beijing huan ying ni) nothing quite so “clever” is done with their English name, which to Shanghaiist bears too much connection to a place where we used to get ice cream shaped like a clown’s head when we were young. more ›

'Hold that thought while I spray this foam into my vagina'

'Hold that thought while I spray this foam into my vagina'

That's a phrase all men yearn to hear. Wish granted! ... thanks to some brilliant minds in -- you guessed it -- Guangdong province. According to a very vague Xinhua photo caption, a condom-in-a-can (or, if you prefer, it's sexed-up official name: "Nanometer-silver Cryptomorphic Condom") has been approved by Guangdong's "drug administration," and somehow that means it can now be sold throughout China. The man pictured is the proud owner of a spray condom in Hubei province's Yichang. more ›

Damn you, China Telecom!

Damn you, China Telecom!

China's internet thugs are are it again, this time attempting to block popular internet telephony services, namely Shanghaiist favorite Skype: more ›

Convenient consumables cluttering the country

Convenient consumables cluttering the country

If every single person in China’s population of over 1.3 billion people tossed 34 yuan in, let’s say, Shanghaiist's pocket, that would equal around 5.5 billion US dollars. That is the amount on money being wasted on disposable hotel supplies including toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, slippers and combs. China is becoming wary of this situation as well as its strain on the country’s finances. more ›

Let them eat moon cake

Let them eat moon cake

It's time for moon cakes again. The mid-autumn festival isn’t until September 18 -- and should thus be called the late-summer festival -- but this isn’t the first time people tried to get a head start on a holiday. more ›

Two scoops of frozen poop, please!

Two scoops of frozen poop, please!

In an announcement that should come as no surprise to anyone who has tasted the stuff, China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has confirmed that Chinese-made ice cream is bad ... really bad ... and potentially harmful to your health. A muddled China Daily story about the report says that Chinese ice cream has an approval rating of 52.6 percent -- not very good, but still about 10 points better than President Bush. more ›

'The Shanghai high life of quality lady'

'The Shanghai high life of quality lady'

That's China Daily's headline for this story, which they copied and pasted from its original source, U.S. News & World Report. The story, originally titled "The Shanghai High Life," is annoying and vapid and tells the story of Lily Wang, a "typical Shanghai yuppie." Or perhaps the author was trying to show that the life of a typical Shanghai yuppie is annoying and vapid? more ›

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