World Chocolate Wonderland has constructed a whole chocolate theme park just in time for the holidays. We sat down with project organizer Zhao Jing Po to get all the delicious details. Read on to learn more:
This is China’s second chocolate theme park. What makes it special?
Yes, Beijing ... Read More
The annual Santa Hash kicks off this weekend, we caught up with Mark Woodward from the “drinking group with a running problem” to find out more about this event.
What is the Santa Hash?
The three-day event brings together all the sects of the Hash House Harrier running groups in ... Read More
While we’re still waiting for the
Cool Docks to get cool, a new complex has popped up next door. Wharf 1846 has taken over three historic buildings built in (you guessed it) 1846. But unless you raged at TICT’s Halloween warehouse bash, chances are you haven’t been ... Read More
French-born celebrity chef Alain Ducasse dishes on this week's Masters of Food and Wine event at the Park Hyatt Shanghai.
Tell us about your passion for cooking.
It came to me early in my childhood. Growing up on a farm, I understood something then which still guides me today ... Read More
Director Estel Vilar’s experimental arts collective The Illumin8tors put on a rock show with a storyline. We caught up with her to find out what to expect from their upcoming show at Mao Livehouse Shanghai.
How did The Illumin8tors get started?
When I came to Shanghai five years ago ... Read More
We caught up with Leonardo “Tabasco” Guerrero, the reigning champ at Bubba’s annual chili cookoff. We found out about he is going to defend his title at this year's competition, which takes place this Saturday.
How did you originally enter the competition?
To be honest, I had never ... Read More
Shanghai is about to be injected with a healthy dose of drama when the city’s newest theater holds its grand opening this month. Covering an impressive 65,000 sq. meters in the former French Concession, Shanghai Culture Square is not only the world’s largest underground theater, but also ... Read More
Stephen Notman of Whisky Live educates us on the finer points of whisky consumption before this week's event.
What is Whisky Live?
It’s a whisky festival held in 15 countries around the world and attended by both members of the trade and consumers. A lot of people don ... Read More
There are new regulations in the works that will require monitoring of public Wi-Fi signals at bars, cafés, hotels and bookstores across China. The rule has already come into effect in Beijing, and Shanghai is supposedly next. But will it actually happen?
Many question not only enforcement of the law ... Read More
The Peninsula’s Yang Lu is China’s first internationally certified sommelier and a judge at the upcoming China Wine Challenge. We caught up with him to find out more about his career in wine.
How did you go from being born in Xinjiang to translating Master of Wine Jancis ... Read More
Nicolas Leroy and his brothers want to make you a successful contemporary artist with their digital project, BDRtist. We caught up with him to find out more.
Tell us a bit about the BDRtist project. Leroy Brothers’ BDRtist is an internet-based art project that allows you to be part of ... Read More
Hot on the heels of one year without shoes, Arthur Jones tells us how his feet fared in the city streets.
Do you have your shoes back on? Yes, I finished the project two weeks ago and I have my shoes on right now.
So you managed the entire year ... Read More
Spring is here which means that it's time to get outdoors and get fit. Kick start your fitness routine with the whole family at the Jinqiao 8K race. We caught up with Concordia teacher Scott Murphey to find out more about the fun run.
How did you first find ... Read More
Chess is a game of strategy that requires intelligence, patience and control. But could you play if you were three drinks in? Shanghai's best art blog, Bound Editorial, has teamed up with New York-based artist Seldon Yuan to host Under the Influence. Seldon has turned the traditional board game ... Read More
How long would it take to walk across the world's most populous country? Graham Earnshaw, author of The Great Walk of China, decided to give it a go and walks from Shanghai to Tibet. We caught up with journalist to find out why.
You’re walking across China?
I ... Read More
We caught up Carol Hoag from the Baobei Foundation. She told us all about charitable organization and why we need to get to their upcoming charity dinner this weekend.
What’s the Baobei Foundation?
Baobei means “precious child.” Four women started it almost three years ago after another large orphan-care ... Read More
The Expo may now be firmly in our rearview mirrors, but Shanghai’s infrastructure boom still isn’t finished. The city just announced that an additional 80km of Metro track will be added in the next two years. Shanghai’s Metro system is already the world’s largest subway–why ... Read More
Chen Lei tells us about her new talk show on International Channel Shanghai (ICS) and which famous faces we can expect to see.
What’s your new ICS show, “Talk to Lei,” about?
The program tries to explore the inner world of celebrities by looking back at the extraordinary experiences ... Read More
Brendan O’Kane has gone from translating to becoming a podcast professor, teaching Mandarin for Popup Chinese. Why learn Chinese from a laowai? Read below to find out.
What makes Popup Chinese different from other Mandarin learning podcasts?
Our focus is on having fun with the language and producing content ... Read More
Inflation is a hot topic all through China. What’s more expensive now and just how much have prices risen?
China’s Consumer Price Index rose 5.1 percent in November, hitting a 28-month high. That follows a 4.4 percent rise in October and bowls over the government’s ... Read More
This Saturday EcoGlobalParty is going to rock Chongming Island. Earth Lovers will unite for a day of sustainable revelry. The event will feature live bands, eco-friendly activities like bike rides, shopping and educational opportunities. We caught up with event organizers Qinghua Lin and Xiaoyun Dong to find out more about ... Read More
The formica tables of Da Fu Gui sport more exquisite snacks than Mount Du has jade. Their xiaolongbao (小笼包, RMB5) are reliably good–not unearthly–but the house pan-fried shengjianbao (生煎包, RMB3.5) will bring you one step closer to the heavens. The crisp and subtly sweet bun surrounds a ... Read More
The Shanghai arts community, a rag-tag group of artists, have banded together to create The Urbanity Project, a collaborative art publication that celebrates the city as a place of humans, rather than infrastructure. We caught up with Justin Earley, the editor of book, to find out more about the new ... Read More
TNS Digital Life just completed the largest-ever study of the world’s internet population, and it’s giving web observers a look at how different countries stack up online. Unsurprisingly, China is one of the most web-focused nations. Over half of its netizens are considered “highly engaged,” and they spend ... Read More
One of the growing social networking platforms that is taking off in China as much as internationally is pip.io. This fun little tool has been creating buzz in the last few months among Chinese users the way that Twitter did in the US a while back. The thought is ... Read More