Of all kinds, with all kinds, for everybody
I don’t know if Chinese cuisine has any mantra, but the one above mentioned would fit it to a T. It is the only place in the world where the jokes with "fried scorpions sandwiches" would not be ...
Higher and higher!
A thing I adored in the bars of Shanghai was that I was up, in high places, in most of them. And when I say height, I’m not joking -Flair Bar - on the 58th floor, Cloud 9 - on the 87th floor, Music Room - on the 92nd floor! I was ...
"Worthy of an emperor"
That’s what you hear when you meet them, when they welcome you, glowing with pride in Yi Long Court restaurant of Peninsula Hotel, one of the most exclusive restaurants in Shanghai. And they are ...
Walking down the street
In Shanghai, like in all Asia, there is a real culture of eating in the street. Especially when the goodies invite you everywhere, because the food stalls are all over the place, in the streets. From meat rolls, joint roasted on the ...
"Sense and Sensibility" in Salon de Ville
No, we haven’t arrived in Miss Austen’s Haye Park, we are still in Shanghai, in a place where tea is art, modus vivendi, poetry and history (nevertheless, the Chinese are the "forefathers" of the tea, the first people on earth who ...
Shanghai shopping
It’s true what they say: China is the heaven of shopaholics. From the huge malls which scrape the clouds or lie on a long horizontal surface, in the big cities, to the small traditional shops in the ...
