Monthly Archives: December 2008
Video: Riding a bicycle through Shanghai
This is a quick video showing how it is to ride through the streets of Shanghai on a bike. The quality was crap but I was riding one handed and using a point and shoot camera. Yes, that is a basket on the front of my bike. Yes, it’s what dudes do in Shanghai. No, [...]
Sanxian Hero (三弦)
During my last trip to Beijing I was walking the back streets of the city in search of something more authentic than Chinese students wanting me to buy their artwork. Walking the twisted lane ways I ran into a gentleman playing this plucking instrument which looked like an oversize bass but sounded a little like [...]
Homes Shanghainese Restaurant
Homes was the first Shanghainese restaurant I visited when arriving off the boat. After eating their delicious local food, especially the pork in brown sauce, I was hooked. The sad truth was that at the time I had no idea what side of the city I was in or where Homes was located. By good [...]
Past and present: Huangpu Park
Huangpu Park located at the northern end of the Bund is a small green area with a colourful past. In the ye olde racist days the foreign powers that ran Shanghai excluded Chinese from entering the Park. Here is the official sign that was once at the gate: In the kung foo movie “Fist of [...]
Farewell 2008