Archives for “shanghai”

this woman was spotted (by me) on a commute home recently. busking in the subway car with a loudspeaker.


hard working shanghai bloggers andy and jake put together this show to support 81fur.com. personally, i'd have to question the efficacy of using underground bands ...


and why does party world have radiohead's "exit music for a film" in their karaoke library. "Exit Music (For A Film)" Wake.. from your sleep The drying of ...


here's a photo of ikea shanghai after some tonemapping. i'm hoping to get better as this as i go along, but here's my first effort.


(h/t to edna) saw this in the guardian: "Shanghai's older residents turn to drugs for mahjong marathons" In a city once synonymous with decadence, a new drug ...


so, as mentioned here and here and here last night was the boys climbing ropes record release party (support by duck fight ...


every group of friends has one friend who is the center of energy, fun, and crazy ideas. for 2 years my friend zafar filled that ...


so after a couple of weeks of watching iron chef america back in the states, i came back to shanghai inspired to cook some new ...


shanghai desk workers on the nanjing west road strip know there's a few reliable places to get a salad during lunchtime. the usual haunts of ...


cheap, tasty food close to campus is a staple of any college town, and berkeley is no different. but once you've graduated and go back, ...


for me, watching the 1983 movie "a christmas story" is almost as much as a tradition as christmas itself. with that in mind, we had ...


there's a lot of resources around the shanghai internets about hot pot and the various locales where one can partake in this winter-centric dining style, ...


had a big weekend. krispy kreme grand opening. grace's going away dinner. dessert at hof. late night drinks at cha's with colette. handel's messiah sung ...


tonkatsu is japanese for fried pork cutlet. and the best and most traditional japanese restaurants tend to specialize in one thing - when in japan, ...


i don't want to make this into a blog-vertisement like woai does with marks & spencer, lawry's and charlie chan's. but we were on our ...


with christmas and new year's around the corner, i'm in countdown mode for my trip back to the states, which is nominally home for me. of ...


we got a preview in our office today. someone who knows someone resulting in this on my desk this morning. grand opening december 15, 2009.


(h/t to Jake Newby - who appears in the video, himself!) p-i-n-k-be-rr-y!


last night i went to the 0093 sampler release mentioned here and here held at the new mao livehouse . arriving late, i missed most ...


frequent readers of youusedtobealright.com know that i enjoy my pho. those that live in shanghai should also know that pho here is often disappointing or ...


i actually don't believe that (for me, it's spring, when basketball playoffs for both the ncaa and nba are in full swing, baseball starts and ...


this gentleman clearly had too many mao tais. or budweisers. or is a fellow shanghai blogger.


cold, gray day from the interior of grand gateway mall in shanghai.


i went out to sheshan to the hsbc championship and watched lefty overtake tiger for the third round lead no, i didn't take photos of ...


seen at shanghai's hongmei pedestrian street out in hongqiao district. an old, illegally imported cadillac with big (and ugly) rims. feels like houston circa 2005. well ...