Shanghai Travel Blog

Well ladies, it’s time for you to take a day for yourselves! Leave your men, kids, pets and troubles at home and meet up with your girls for a day of relaxation and a night of fun. Shanghai is a party city, but it’s also full of luxury and opportunities for relaxation. That’s exactly...

Shanghai is a segmented city, with very clear lines between neighborhoods and lots of fun friction and rivalries between the Pudong and Puxi crowds. Still, when it comes to great food there a few neighborhoods who literally take the cake. For starters, Pudong (literally, “east of the river)”...

So, the food has you turning green? Perhaps that’s only because you don’t know what you’re looking at! China has a diverse cuisine with foods from across the vast country and abroad fused into one massive genre of delicious (and yes, sometimes odd) foods. If you run into a restaurant...

In Shanghai, you’ll often notice brand names that you recognize, but with subtle differences that make them unique to China and somewhat less appealing to someone from where the product originated. For example, Pringles chips in America are made from potatoes and have flavors like sour cream and...

Shanghai is love. How can you not be in the mood for romance walking along the beautiful and historical Bund hand in hand with your lover as you look at over the lights glistening on the water of the Huangpu River? The restaurants in Shanghai are especially romantic, and you’ll find some of the...

Christmas Eve in Shanghai can be as festive as back home if you know where to go. Across the city several great restaurants have specials on offer for the holidays. From delicious French cuisine Kathleen’s to the high class contemporary food at M1NT. Mesa & Manifesto offers a Christmas Eve...

Shopping for international goods in Shanghai can be difficult if you don’t know where to go. Want Cheerios in the morning?—We know where to find them. Need real bacon for a little recipe you miss from back home?—We know where that is, too! For a quasi-western store, you can head to shops like the...

With its proximity to where tea grows, Shanghai has always been a tea-drinking city. You may find the occasional coffee house but if you venture inside you’ll still find people ordering tea by the pot and spending the afternoon chatting and consuming the world’s most popular drink. Any visit to Shanghai...

Expats are creatures of habit, they continually flock to a specific view restaurants in Shanghai. Sometimes for the excellent cuisine, but more than likely it is because of the ‘taste of home’ the décor, clientele and food represent. The following five are the top expat restaurants in Shanghai: Zapata’s....

It is frustrating to visit a new and exotic city like Shanghai and then only find international and foreign cuisine listed on most travel cites and in the local English-language magazines and newspapers. For anyone who wants to experience Shanghai food, or at least Chinese food, while in China here are...