Snail mail is here to save your marriage! China Post is stepping it up a notch with a new inventive way to keep the fire alive for couples: to combat rising divorce rates (which have quadrupled in recent years), China Post is offering newlyweds the opportunity to have heart-felt letters delivered to each other 7 years after their wedding day. more ›

We usually spend what change we have on beer (lord knows how many Kedis have had to deal with us meticulously counting out three kuai in one jiaos at 3 in the morning), but in case you're not major midnight inconveniences like us and you've saved up buckets and buckets of coins, a reader has sent in a pretty good tip: more ›

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

We recently moved into our fourth different apartment in just over four years in Shanghai. We used to do the moving ourselves: Get one of those Dazhong taxi trucks, lift everything in at the new place, and then lift everything out at the old place. Easy and cheap -- those things don't cost much more than a normal taxi. But over the years, we have accumulated quite a bit of stuff, and it had been raining for ages ... we just didn't want to deal with it. So, based on a friend's suggestion, we called up the moving company branch of the Dazhong taxi empire. It was good advice. more ›

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Couldn't they have licked the panties, like they no doubt would have in the movies?

A brief note regarding the City Diner we told you about not too long ago: We have learned that it is supposed to open this week, either today or Friday, depending on who you believe. We assume the source that said today is reliable, because he was seated in one of the City Diner's booths working on a computer. We'll explain: We ate at Eat, Drink, Man, Woman on Saturday (delicious, as always) and afterwards decided to snoop around upstairs to see what the diner was looking like. Honestly, it looked a lot like Eat, Drink, Man, Woman -- the same beige pseudo-suede upholstery. We were kind of hoping for some red vinyl and at least one jukebox. The only things that really screamed "diner" were the retro Coca-Cola fridge, the hanging lights and the neon sign outside. So, we figured they still had some redesigning to do. But the guy with the computer sitting in the booth (who we didn't notice at first -- good thing we didn't steal that wine) said it was scheduled to open on Monday. And who would doubt a guy sitting in a booth working on a computer? Well, we would. We just called iiiit!, another one of Eduardo Vargas's establishments, and they said the City Diner will open Friday, but that it didn't have a phone number yet. If any of you decide to go with the computer guy's word, let us know what you find. more ›

Shanghaiist, admittedly, isn't much of a museum goer. While we can spend hours wandering the galleries at 50 Moganshan Lu, we have yet to set foot in that big famous museum in People's Square. We blame our short attention span on MTV. But when we do find a museum we like, we'll tell you about it. And this weekend we were thoroughly impressed by the little-known Shanghai Post Museum, which opened on January 1. more ›