今日上海
On the beat: vetting foreigners in the city
May 18, 2018
Yu Shaohua, 34, spends a lot of his time hanging around bars downtown, but he’s hardly a barfly. Yu is an exit-entry poli
Handpicked special ingredients putup the price but ensure top quality
May 11, 2018
Dessert is the perfect end to a perfect meal, but the happiness created by eggs, sugar and butter can bring guilt, especially in t
Fertile soil cultivating art, culture
May 11, 2018
An art festival has kicked off in the historic Dachang Town, in north Shanghai’s Baoshan District, to present art performanc
Cultural corridor takes shape at West Bund
May 11, 2018
Frequent visits to the West Bund, 11.4 kilometers long, have left me with reasons to return. The area in Xuhui District, like
Pipes call the tune at celebrated wind music festival
May 04, 2018
Fanfares of pipe tunes loudly echoed across the Huangpu River during the past week as the Shanghai Spring International Wind Music
One knife fits all in Chinese style of food preparation
May 04, 2018
Caidao, a large flat Chinese chopping knife or Chinese chef’s knife, is an all-purpose tool that can accomplish most cutting
Black art in the drinking of tea
May 04, 2018
The Jianzhan, or Jian teacup, is a famous porcelain item dating to the Song Dynasty (960-1279). It is known as Tenmoku w
Singapore chef’s epiphany in a small Yunnan cafe
April 27, 2018
Singaporean restaurateur Betty Ng created Ginger in 2005 to serve modern Asian cuisine in Shanghai, but the story of ginger starte
A shopping street to rival the best in the world gets even better
April 27, 2018
Jing’an sits in the heart of Shanghai and Nanjing Road W. is its main artery. The famous shopping street is often called the
So many chopsticks, so much history and culture
April 27, 2018
During the “cultural revolution” (1966-76), a then 30-year-old Lan Xiang witnessed some people burning old chopsticks
