China Travel 2.0

Shanghai’s 5 best 小龙虾 ( Crayfish )Restaurants: A bite-by-bite guide Dig into Shanghai’s favorite summer seafood in five crowd-pleasing xiaolongxia restaurants Your perfect Shanghai summer dinner: clawlicious xiaolongxia and beer. Call them what you like — crayfish, crawfish, crawdads, “little dragon shrimp” or “little lobsters” — but everyone knows that the Shanghainese go gaga about [...]

The world is globalizing further and further especially all the big metropoles of our world assimilate more and more. If you draw the direct comparison between a german city like Munich and Shanghai in china, particularly the small things are the most remarkable! The Differences: Almost NOBODY speaks English, even not there where you could [...]

There was no reality TV show, but half a century ago, Shanghai’s comrade chefs were battling it out in the kitchen In the 1950s the battle for top chef was held at the Sino-Soviet Friendship Mansion. “Shanghai’s New Day Has Dawned” roared the headline of the English-language Shanghai News in June 1950. But just two months before, [...]

You don’t have to Travel far to find an adventurous Shanghai sport — maybe just move a little out of downtown Living in Shanghai, it can be easy to get into a routine — doing the same things in the same places with the same people. It’s easy to forget that we live in a [...]

Shanghai is the most populous city in china. Sitting at the mouth of the river Yangtze, the city reflects a mix of Western and Eastern cultures in architectural designs. For those staying in luxury hotels, Shanghai offers a variety of pleasures. Purchase a high-end stores along 南京东路 Nanjing Road to explore the country’s history at [...]

Shanghai – The eastern metropolis of Shanghai, the economic hub of Hong Kong and the sprawling city of Chongqing have been named the top three “sexy cities” in china because of their prosperity, charming buildings and beautiful girls, a new survey shows. More than 17 percent of 6,577 residents randomly sampled from 30 cities in [...]

I’d like to re-post the pictures from thetravelersnotebook, the pictures can tell the changes yesterday and today. goto the page to see more pictures for others places in the world. Beijing: Maybe they are not the very same places, but it is true that the old buildings are disapearing every single day. Shanghai-You can see, [...]

Interview with Nick Winslow, the spokesperson for the 上海世博会： Shanghai World expo 2010’s U.S. Pavilion: After watching Beijing bask in the glory of the 2008 Summer Olympics, Shanghai has jumped into the fray by hosting the 2010 World Expo, which opened on May 1 and runs for six months. Nick Winslow, president of the company that [...]

上海世博会 － Shanghai expo shows a can-do china R. Sean Randolph Friday, July 23, 2010 Before it closes in October, 70 million people – the vast majority Chinese – will visit the World Expo in Shanghai. Like the Beijing Olympics and staged on the epic scale we have come to expect from China, it has [...]

上海世博会:  World expo Shanghai 2010 Sites: Expo Sites are located on both sides of the Huangpu River, in the districts of Pudong (meaning east of the Huangpu) and Puxi (meaning west of the Huangpu). It covers a total area of 5.28 square kilometers, with 3.93 sq km in Pudong and 1.35 sq km in Puxi. [...]