Had my first hairy crab of the season last night. April’s parents were in town and she wanted to treat them to some delicious crab, so she ordered some from a delivery service and we had them with some nice yellow wine, beer and home cooked beef noodle soup last night. Then I fell [...]
Archive for the ‘food and drink’ Category
June 21, 2010
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Cityweekend Contest results: I lost
By sushipan in food and drink, mediaA few weeks ago Cityweekend.com posted an online contest for its readers. The commenter who gave the most creative response to this question would win a 1,000 RMB voucher for Mr. and Mrs. Bund, one of my favorite restaurants in Shanghai: “What would you order for your last meal?” After some online shadiness that saw [...]
February 21, 2010
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Shandong breakfast pancake
By sushipan in food and drinkThis is what I had for breakfast today, around the corner from my office. She starts off by slathering wheat dough on her gas powered griddle, then smoothing it out and letting it crisp. In the meantime, she cracks an egg and spreads that out as well. She then tosses on some chives and green [...]
January 24, 2010
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Pretty sweet photos of Kelley and Raffe
By sushipan in food and drink, friends, photosTobias over at SixSixty studios created some pretty sweet photographs of Kelley Lee, Eduardo Vargas, Raffe and the rest of the players of their combined Shanghai restaurant empire. From the photographer’s website:
Kelley & Eduardo are two of Shanghai’s best known restaurateurs among the expat scene. They (along with their managing partners) decided to create this [...]
January 5, 2010
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Repost: 5 fave Shanghai dining spots of 2009
By sushipan in food and drinkIn case you missed it, here was my year-end “list” post on Shanghaiist. I struggled to write this between the hours of 1 and 3 AM the morning before I left for Taiwan. There are, of course, dozens more restaurants that I discovered and favored this past year, but here are the notable few:
2009 saw [...]
December 29, 2009
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Eat, Work, Eat, Drink, Porn
By sushipan in advertising, food and drink, travelJust got back from Taiwan. It was a short trip, just five days. Here’s a quick summay:
Day 1 – My first ever direct flight from Shanghai to Taipei. Thought it would be super fast, turns out that when you add in a 5 hour delay the novelty of ease quickly wears off. Finally arrive late [...]
December 2, 2009
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Hello, Johnny
By sushipan in food and drinkMy formative Shanghai years were spent with many a bottle of Johnny Walker Black and buckets of green tea (see Guandii and Pegasus and many a farewell to my liver). Though those days are long past, I never quite let go of Johnny. I would see him at the duty free stores, on the uniforms [...]
November 29, 2009
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Chinese People Love Carbs: Ichido
By sushipan in food and drinkYes, I like walking into a heated Ichido on a freezing Sunday afternoon. What I don’t appreciate is being surrounded by asshole cakes and pastries loaded with cream and sugar. What are you trying to do, make me regret those gravy fries I had for brunch? Assholes.
November 27, 2009
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Pho26: Battle on Wujiang Lu
By sushipan in food and drinkThis is cross-posted on Shanghaiist
Looks like Shanghai’s Year of Pho will soon have its first cage match. Yes, our pleas for decent pho through the years have been thoroughly drowned out by the sound of so many pho restaurants popping up left and right, front and back. But something intriguing is happening on Wujiang Lu, [...]
