Garden Books
As well as stocking quality literature, this bookshop/cafe also serves gelato in several flavors, to be eaten either in a cup or a cone.
(325 Changle Lu, near Shaanxi Nan Lu)
Feidan
Feidan on Anfu Lu sells a good range of gelato, and has special freezer bags for 10 kuai so you can bulk...
Father’s Day BBQ @ Downstairs
(Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th June)
URBN Hotel’s Downstairs with David Laris is throwing a special weekend of barbecue brunches to celebrate dads. For 260 RMB, yours will get to chow down on his choice of grilled meats, slug a pint of Stella, and take home...
Dad came to Shanghai last year. His epic voyage east was part of a China business trip, which happily coincided with the October holiday. I had been living in Shanghai for a year by then, and it was his first trip out to see me. I offered him the spare room in my apartment, but he insisted on...
This is the kind of film that M Night Shyamalan (Lady in the Water) would have loved to make, except that J.J. Abrams, the erstwhile creator/director of “edge of your seat” TV programs like Lost and Alias, has beat him to it (with a little help from executive producer Steven Spielberg,...
1. Swim With Sharks
Fearless fathers will jump at the chance to swim with sharks at the Changfeng Ocean World. Big Blue scuba club organizes regular forays into the deep.
www.big-blue.cn
2. Climb The Lupu Bridge
Nothing says "I love you, Dad" quite like a vertiginous trek to the top of a...
glo London opens its Shanghai flagship store with a much anticipated launch party at 6pm on June 9. Guests are invited to sample its famous flavored mojoto, as well as a range of mouthwatering food such as lamb kebab, manuka fillet steak and chocolate fudge brownie.
Sometimes, you need to eat a big piece of meat. Here are our favorites for steak in Shanghai.
Condender for the best steak in Shanghai: The MEET
The MEET
Still relatively new, the MEET steakhouse and grill at the Kerry hotel in Pudong does a mean tomahawk. It serves four, but we reckon two people...
How do you revive a flagging franchise that sinks deeper with each new installment? You go back to the beginning. It’s the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and the paths of two mutants are about to cross. Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) is a young professor—an expert on genetic...
What is whisky?
Whiskies come in grain or malt form. A grain whisky is generally made from any type of grain apart from barley, whereas a malt whisky is made from malted barley specifically. A single malt whisky, generally prized above other types, is made from a single distillery,...
It’s rare that a trip to the cinema proves to be anything but predictable these days, so surely another outing with Po would involve jokes about gluttony, being unfit and a geeky love of martial arts, right? Well, yes, but what you don’t see in the trailer is this film’s...
