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Dianping.com, the giant of democratic restaurant review sites in China, has just released a definitive short list of the best places to go for some of Shanghai’s most famous small eats, as reported by Shanghaiist today. This is definitely a major development for those seeking out Shagnhai’s tastiest. Some, like Xiao Yang’s for […]

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Another Vote for Jia Jia

“Pane” (Colleen) on recommendations for me and the Erica mentioned in her post, just reported this on Chowhound.com:
With some input from Gary Soup and reports from Erica, I drew up a list of chow-ish places to visit on a trip to Beijing and Shanghai last week. I ended up hitting quite a few of […]

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Passing the Mantou ….er, Mantle

For the last five years or so, I’ve been the registered owner of the xiaolongbao.com domain name. I never did much with it, just put up a placeholder web page with links to a couple of other of my websites, thinking I would figure out where I wanted to go with it. Mostly […]

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Bourdain Blows It

I was excited to hear that the latest installment of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” had him in Shanghai, sampling local small eats. When I caught the re-run, though, I found it to be a huge disappointment. Although the episode was identified as “Shanghai,” there was a scant 10 minutes or so of an […]

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According to this article in Shanghai Daily,
SHANGHAI named 83 folk arts as its first batch of city-level intangible culture heritage today as part of the city’s efforts to protect and promote these “traditional treasures.”
The popular “Huju Opera, Lion Dancing, Dough Modeling and the Longhua Temple Fair” can be found on the list, which has 10 […]

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