Shanghai Travel Blog

Shanghai is the perfect city for epic New Years parties. Ring in 2011 in style, excitement and class in China’s largest city. Here are the happening places to see and be seen as the new year unfolds. Bar Rouge is having a black tie affair called the New Years Blackout. Black costumes, dresses,...

What’s the reason for the season?– If you look back to the origins of Christmas you’ll find a mix of Yule traditions and Christianity. So, if you want to celebrate the way you were meant to, head to one of the following churches or else find yourself a few reindeer and an old tree to...

Thankfully, Shanghai has many options for your Thanksgiving holiday dinner. From family-centered events complete with traditional food to all-night parties complete with all-you-can-drink specials, Shanghai has it all. Malone’s American Café expertly represents the holiday with a proper thanksgiving...

There are several great events going on in Shanghai this Halloween. Don’t miss out because you didn’t get the scoop in time! This year, plan ahead– get a great costume, slap on a bit of horror make-up and hit the highlights of Shanghai! Or, if you happen to be in Beijing for the spooky...

Few bars and restaurants can stand the test of time in a changing and progressing city like Shanghai, yet some do survive and even flourish with time. O’Malley’s Irish Pub is one such successful pub. We discovered, however, that O’Malley’s closed its doors for a bit of a makeover...

With the Shanghai World Expo drawing to a close at the end of the month, it is high time we examine the strange and yet oddly delightful world of Haibao.  Haibao is the blue, gumby-looking creature meant to represent the Shanghai World Expo. A nation-wide contest with over 26,000 entries resulted ultimately...

Has the Shanghai World Expo improved the city, and the lives of those who live there? Signs for the expo with the saying ‘Better City, Better Life’ sprung up around the city over two years ago,and although expats and locals joked about the appearance of the signs amid construction cranes...

The first week of October is the National Day holiday wherein all Chinese get the entire week off to celebrate the founding of the People’s Republic of China. This is one of the busiest times for tourism in China, and as a foreigner you might not want to visit during this week because trains, hotels,...

Shanghai has a huge expat community of some 200,000+ people from around the world. Any global competition, like the Olympics or World Cup, will attract attention from a large majority of these excitable expats, and Shanghai’s many sports bars and pubs are primed to embrace the throng of fans. Here’s...

While the Expo is getting all the attention in Shanghai lately, other more local innovations are going on largely behind the scenes. Take, for example, Xia yu, who launched a boat in Xiangtan in Hunan province and hopes to paddle it to Shanghai in under 45 days. Did I mention his boat is made entirely...