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This weekend, Shanghaiist Editor Elaine Chow went off to Qingdao for the world famous Qingdao International Beer Festival. This is her story. Sponsored by the lovely folks over at Ctrip, the easiest way to find the best fares in China.

                     

As part of our foray into exploring Qingdao, we decided to check out the Tsingtao Brewery Museum. On a cold, rainy day, we figured the best thing to do would be to explore something indoors and we were a little curious as to how this would compare to other brewery tours we'd taken.

Oh boy. Yesterday I got completely soaked, lost my phone, and was inappropriately goosed by a really drunk Chinese guy, but it was still one of the best days I've had recently. I'm thoroughly impressed by how nice people are in this city - coming from Shanghai to here is like heading from New York City to Cleveland. But with beaches.

This weekend, Shanghaiist Editor Elaine Chow is off in Qingdao for the world famous Qingdao International Beer Festival. She plans on drowning herself in fish and beef and beer and find some way to still manage to remember enough of what's going on to blog about it. Sponsored by the lovely folks over at Ctrip, the easiest way to find the best fares in China.

Remember how we told you we were going to become Qingdaoist for this weekend? Well, we're flying out there today... in fact, we're probably in the air right now! We've got a tentative schedule lined up of seafood, beer and blogging, and not much to guide us by except for these websites: myredstar (which seems to think Qingdao has nothing going on on a Friday night) and That's Qingdao (relation to That's Shanghai unconfirmed as of yet). This will be the first time in a while we've not known where to go in a Chinese city... and we'll most likely be drunk on top of that, so forgive us if old Qingdao hands end up finding what we do supremely touristy! But hey, if you have any recommendations of places to go, we'd love to hear it. Send 'em to tips (at) shanghaiist.com. And as always, thanks to our sponsors: the great people over at Ctrip.

The following post is from our advertiser Ctrip. So did we mention we’re going to Qingdao? Yeah, near the end of August we've got plans to infiltrate and report on the great Asian fraternity party of 2009. That means for a weekend, you'll get to hear about all the streaking, chugging, bonding and other ridiculous antics that will no doubt spawn from the copious amounts of beer we'll be drinking. Want to come too? Need a place to stay? Check out the hotel and flight deals the good people over at Ctrip have compiled. See you there!

          

Sure, Shanghai is a great city. But after going up the Jin Mao Tower for the fourth time, eating at Wujiang Lu for the tenth time (this week), and seeing, breathing, and hearing nothing but Expo all day, every day, a little bit of nature is more than appreciated. After searching around for day-trip recommendations, we finally decided on the tea mountains of Hangzhou, and we weren't disappointed.

              

Last week, intrepid Shanghaiist intern Kate Ray traveled with a classmate to the nearby island of Putuoshan, most famous for its Buddhist temples and monasteries. After a week of eating seafood and being stared at by tourists everywhere for looking somewhat non-Chinese, she has safely returned to Shanghai to share her hard-earned knowledge about the island...