Shanghai Travel Blog

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...

Finding high-quality Mexican food in Asia is not always an easy thing to achieve, but in Shanghai the task is surprisingly a simple one. If you are a love of Latin foods, then this post will help keep you happy while visiting Shanghai. For decently mixed margaritas, astonishingly delicious burritos and...

There are always creative options for shopping in Shanghai, but if you just want to get all your groceries in one spot the options are more limited. True, its more fun to buy your veggies at the street stalls, and they are significantly cheaper outside as well, but for variety, government oversight and...

Sometimes you just feel creative. You want to find art supplies, or handcrafts or even just a unique place to inspire your creativity and give you that little push to end your writer’s block and spark your creative juices. Here are a few of the best places in Shanghai for a creative soul longing for...

Finding delicious snacks in Shanghai is easy, and usually these foods are actually calculatedly healthy! Tea Eggs.  These may look like an item only Sweeney Todd would devour, but they are actually great tasting and incredibly healthy. The first few times I saw them at the convenience store, bubbling...

If you only have a few days in Shanghai, you’ll want to soak in as much as possible in the afternoons after your meetings or factory tours. To really enjoy Shanghai’s fast flavor and offerings, you’d naturally want to spend over a weak exploring the city and its surrounding areas, but since we...

If you want to hear the finest Latin tunes and get the best in Mexican cuisine, or even just have an above average margarita, we’re here to be your Latin guide. Shanghai, despite its distance from Latin America both culturally and geographically, has a large collection of Latin-inspired restaurants,...