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Shanghaiist read about The Den in the English mags and websites, and from the description it seemed decent -- a chill place which is a bar, lounge and massage parlor combined. What's more, Brad Prichard plays indie rock on Tuesday nights -- so we headed out there to see what it was all about. It's hard to be picky about the location, which although is by no means far away, but seems a bit out of the way in that there is nothing else around there, save a Bi Feng Tang and the like.

Like many people, Shanghaiist ducked out of the country for a few days over the October 1 holiday. We didn’t go far: just across the water to Seoul.

A report on Yahoo! China got our attention because of it's uh, attention-grabbing headline: 中国游客海外不文明行为震动高层 ("The uncivilized behavior of Chinese tourists abroad shocks the upper levels of government"). The central government's "Civilization Bureau" recently ran an internet survey and just published the results (in Chinese) a little over a week ago. This includes the top 10 uncivilized Chinese behaviors abroad as well as 20 suggestion about how to improve the situation.

And we're not talking about those wild 20 year olds looking for man meat from the state of Washington -- we mean yaks and wolves and the like:

Imagine this: A high school parking lot in Irvine, a small city in southern California. It's the mid-1990s and Shanghaiist, who in his wildest dreams had never thought he'd grow up to be a blogger, is busy scraping a faux-"handicapped" sticker of a stick figure in a wheelchair smoking a bong off his car. So this is what teenagers do to relieve their boredom in the O.C. (Orange County or 橙县).

Since Shanghaiist has been accused of ruining things like the old Tang Hui, we thought we'd share with you the fruits of our actions -- the new, improved (?), definitely not at all dingy, gritty, divey, '50s-Motown-music-during-the-intermissions place on Xingfu Lu you that once knew and loved. Here's the rundown: Tang Hui has not only expanded and moved to a four-story villa on the corner of Huating Lu and Huaihai Lu (85 Huating Lu, just by the Changshu Lu subway station) but they've also expanded the concept -- there are now four floors and will thus feature simultaneous music (one act on floors 1-2, another on 3-4), so that if rock doesn't strike your fancy that night, you might be able to catch some electronic or more intimate (solo instrumentalist) performance instead. And while they're sticking with the mainland scene, expect them to book some overseas acts when they're in town.

Yao Ming is tall. He is also good at basketball. We already told you that. He is also China's top celebrity, three years running, according to Forbes. The list takes into account all that is important in life: income, television appearances, newspaper mentions, magazine covers, internet searches, and the like. (Hmmmm. We do a lot of internet searches and we weren't ranked. Likely because we weren't born in Mainland China. Same reason why Jay Chou isn't on the list.)

CSR Asia directed us to this story from The Korea Times about Starbucks' many trademark infringement battles around the globe. The lead to the story is about Shanghai's Xingbake chain of coffee houses ("Xing" means star in Chinese, and "Ba Ke" is meant to sound like "bucks"), which was ordered to pay a whopping US$60,000 to Starbucks in a recent lawsuit. Last we heard Xingbake was appealing the ruling. Looking at the graphic that accompanied the story brought back some memories. We have consumed beer (we don't like coffee) at "USA Bucks" in Harbin. Their storefront is even more blatant than their logo. And inside, they sell real Starbucks merchandise -- mugs and the like -- and above the bar, it says "tarbucks." But you can see where the "S" was ripped off the wall.

They can close down Xiangyang Market if they want to, Shanghai is still going to be the world capital for fakes. We've got the obvious ones: bags, shoes, watches, DVDs, CDs and the like. But we've also got fake maps, fake Starbucks and, yes, even fake eggs. And now Sinosplice shows us fake oranges. Well, we imagine it's the sticker that is fake, not the orange. (It appears these "Nalencia"s have been around for a while. And, for those of you not familiar with American oranges, it should be "Valencia.")

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

Pablo Picasso said that and we have no idea what it means. Shanghaiist is a bit out of our element writing about art, especially sculpture, so take this review with a grain of salt. We decided to check out the newly opened Shanghai Sculpture Space's exhibit entitled "Sculpture a Century" (our 12th grade Scottish English literature teacher would surely have sighed and tsked tsked upon seeing this). There are three main areas, representing different styles and time periods, though we forgot what each one was. We couldn't see any unifying threads anyway and decided just to walk through and take a look at each piece. The kinds of sculptures that Shanghaiist is more inclined to are the ones that have some humor and a dash of irony -- and while those constituted just a minority of the pieces, they were fairly interesting. The exhibit is free, so whether sculptures are your thing or not, it's at least worth a look. The old warehouse that it's housed in is actually not too big, so you could reasonably go through the whole exhibit in an hour.

a FuturePerfect on Huashan Lu