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In place of the usual scoops and updates on the happenings around Shanghai's restaurant scene that make up his weekly "New and Noted" column, this week SH Magazine food eminence Christopher St. Cavish gives us a tale of revenge and betrayal with two embattled Thai restaurant owners as the players. Though the issue isn't on stands yet, it's already up here on the SH website. St. Cavish gave us a follow-up via email that we won't include here. Suffice it to say that he doesn't see through their recent claims of truce, especially since one side is still flaunting its financial advantage over the other in a fight that leaves us still planning on Coconut Paradise for our next Thai food fix.

Papa John's thinks bigger: There are about 100 Papa John's locations throughout China, but the restaurant chain wants that number to grow to 500 in the next five years. From Reuters:

UPDATE: Dan Bignold, Managing Editor of SH Magazine has posted his response below.

Where to go, where to go: Shanghaiist is still trying to figure out where to carb up for our big dodgeball game tonight (that's right, patches, dodgeball). Pure, the fancy new Japanese restaurant that is part of The Collection at Xintiandi, has been offering their new sushi menu for 50% off since last Thursday. The special ends tomorrow night, however, so if we enjoy ourselves tonight we may find ourselves there tomorrow as well. On...

Readers of SH Magazine (and that probably means MANY of you here as well) that participated in its first Readers' Choice Survey have voted us Shanghai's Blog of the Year! Thanks to all of you who made this possible! So Nanjing Xilu was the Street of the Year, and Liu Xiang was the Person of the Year. H&M was the hottest fashion shop for both women AND men, and Qipu Lu was the best market. But really, we found it an honor to be mentioned in the same breath as Christina Aguilera and a play based on the music of Abba!

The sad thing is that this will probably work. Someone finally found a way to out BonBon the folks at BonBon. On the positive side, all of the schemey types that you didn't want to meet, but have more than 100 RMB in their pockets, will probably be at Bar Rouge on Thursday night. Which means I should be safe to roam the rest of the city at will.