Results tagged “shanghai” from Nothing new here
Yes, I am in Shanghai, China. No, you are not looking for me. No, I don't have bread for sale. Neither do I make Baguettes. No, I am not a bakery. You confuse me with this Paul.
But since you are here, you probably want to know this:
- PAUL in Xintiandi
Unit 01, Building 17, Lane 181, Taicang Rd (太仓路181弄新天地北里17号楼1座, 近马当路) - PAUL at Red House
1F, 843 Middle Huaihai Rd. (淮海中路843号1楼) - PAUL Shanghai Centre
Nanjing West Road 1376, 1F, Room 118 (南京西路1376号上海商城1楼118室，靠近西康路) - PAUL Donping Road
1F, 6 Dongping Rd., near HengShan Rd. (东平路6号底楼，近衡山路) - PAUL Thumb Plaza
1 F, Thumb Plaza, No.8, Lane 199, Fang Dian Road, Pudong (芳甸路199弄8号大拇指广场) - Paul at Carrefour Gubei
268 Shuicheng Nan Lu (水城南路268号)
Rumor has it there's a PAUL in Carrefour Gubei, can't confirm it.
* Photo by Qiao-Da-Ye
I stumbled upon an mildly ironic article about China losing jobs to cheaper countries:
Rising costs squeeze Chinese
[...] Costs in China are climbing nationwide, but the greatest pain is being felt in the south, where about 14,000 Hong Kong-run factories could close in the next few months, said Polly Ko of the Economic and Trade Office in Guangdong, which neighbors Hong Kong.
History just keeps repeating itself.
Having lived for many years in Shanghai and being asked the same questions over and over again, I decided to write a series of articles with tips for living here. As a starter, a list of sites which should answer all your questions and cover most of the things i may write about in my articles later.
Community, Directories
Shanghai Expat - Number one expat community in Shanghai, you can get most of your questions answered here and more. Their directory sucks however.- Schanghai.com - German expat-community in Shanghai and China
- SmartShanghai - Great directory of food, pubs, clubs, etc, and a community.
- City Weekend - Directory of everything, their magazine is available for free in many places.
- That's Shanghai - Another magazine and directory, I read the mag, but don't use their site.
- Shanghai Eats - Food directory.
- Live in Shanghai - Info on many things, i never used that site. Looks informative
Food Delivery
- Pizza Hut Delivery - I suggest you get somebody to sign up for you, since the address entry is not so trivial (bad translations)
- Papa John's Pizza - Quick delivery, much better than Pizza Hut. You need to find the closest shop here and see if they can take the order in English.
- Hello Pizza - "Same ingredients as the pizza market leaders!" :-o
- Citydeli - Possibly the most expensive Sandwiches in town? :-D
- NYC Deli - Prices seem ok, but I am too lazy to order over the phone... you guys need online ordering!
- Icistreet - If you happen to be working or living in XuHui, check out this low-cost sandwich place.
- iiiit.cn - Horrible flash site, broken online ordering, link goes to their pdf formatted menu
- Coolzey - Shops along Shanxi Rd.
- Sherpa - Oldest one, and probably the most expensive one too, great food though.
- Mealbay - Haven't tried them, similar to Sherpa.
- Dial A Meal - Haven't tried them, similar to Sherpa, don't know any of their restaurants either :-P
Online Shops
- Books Direct - English language books in China, free delivery.
- Newegg China - Electronics, Chinese only site
- Taobao - forget ebay, Chinese only site
- Amazon.cn - Amazon's attempt to enter the Chinese market, Chinese only site
Language
ChinesePod - I quite like these podcasts, not only focusing on learning Chinese but also making you understand the culture- Melnyks - Similar to Chinese pod, spoken by a Canadian. (I think that guy has terrible accent, but some people think, he's the best thing since sliced bread.)
News, Blogs
- Danwei - Media news in china, may be not interesting for some
- ShanghaiBites Food blog, did not update it for few weeks.
- Likealocal.cn - Another local food blog. From personal experience I would not recommend trying any food from roadside stalls, but otherwise it should be save :-)
- Shanghai Daily - English language newspaper in Shanghai. Forget China Daily
Maps, Metro
- SmartShanghai's Downtown Map and Metro - Interactive maps of shanghai and the metro.
- Explore Shanghai - Excellent interactive map of Shanghai Metro, drag between stations to get travel time and price, click on a stop for more information. The map of downtown is not bad either, the whole site looks very promising, I hope they won't shut it down any time soon.
- Google Ditu - Chinese only maps. Not really useful if you can't read and write Chinese characters.
Hotels, Flights, Trains
CTrip - I use this to book china flights and hotels- China Train Schedule - Can't vouch for their accuracy, never took train here.
- Cheap Budget Hotels - List of cheap motel chains in shanghai, I have stayed in many of them. Good choice if you are on budget. (The beds will be most likely (quite) hard, to suit the Chinese taste)
Jobs
This three links are all you need for your job search. If you are looking for a specific company, you may want to try going to that company's website directly. For internships there are dedicated websites (can't think of any), also your country's chamber of commerce in shanghai may have a list of internships and jobs available.Visa, Housing
Emoo.net - I get my Z-Visas done through them, saves you a lot of time and pain. They also provide other services which I have not tried.- SmartShanghai Housing - One of few housing links i will include here. Usually you will get ripped off or end up paying far too much for an apartment in a foreigner ghetto. Find a local to help you out if you don't want to pay more than RMB 6000 or don't feel like getting ripped off.
Not much to do today. Listening to b-Shake on Jamendo and browsing some photos on Flickr.
Have a look at lifemage's Shanghai photos, which are simply beautiful - That's what living in Shanghai is all about - And I wish I had such camera skills.
-
Shanghai suffered the worst air quality since 2001 as the effects of sandstorms in China's north moved south Monday.(tags: environment shanghai)
-
An international English training school teamed up with the Shanghai Charity Foundation to hold a peculiar, and even controversial, charity auction for needy and disabled children in the city last night...(tags: shanghai)
-
This pictorial HOWTO depicts a step-by-step method for cooking pancakes.
-
These days, we tend to communicate via the keyboard as much as we do verbally. Often, we're in a hurry, quickly dashing off emails with typos, grammatical shortcuts...
-
This document represents the collective wisdom of 37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization. Together, they have voted on the various factors that are estimated to comprise Google's ranking algorithm...
-
"Tips for learning to speak Mandarin Chinese". I kind of gave up learning mandarin... haha
-
Flash-based slideshows out of photos, videos...
-
At 33 Sichuan Zhong Lu, they brew their own beer and it's not expensive
Straight from Shanghai's hip hop ghetto comes this bottle of Sprite IcyMint.
Taste: Sugar water with a bit too much mint flavoring.
Refreshing: Ok.
Drink again: No.
The taste changed from undrinkable to horrible minty piss taste as soon as it got a little warm.
