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Shanghai Expats

Expats vising Shanghai can join our Shanghai group on Expatacular.

Best restaurants and events in Shanghai

Look no further than www.cityweekend.com.cn. They have every conceivable restaurant on their website. Rated by real expats. Find what's going on that night or during your trip. Pick up a copy of their English magazine around town.

A few links

A few other links maybe useful for visitors of Shanghai:

http://shanghai.urbanatomy.com/thatssh/ http://www.smartshanghai.com/ http://www.hopstix.com/shanghai

Explore Shanghai with local guides

Walk around , have a professional tour guide to tailor-made your trip, and introduce the city's past, now, and future.

Shanghai Urban Planning Centre

There's a big model of downtown Shanghai in the exhibition hall. Quite impressive. Also strongly recommend the Virtual World show. It's a 10 min round screen documentary of the city. I really love it and never get bored to see it whenever I visited the place. The downside is...well... some people may feel dizzy watching it.

Vienna Cafe on Shaoxing Road

Beautiful little Viennese cafe with delicious, freshly made cakes and home-cooked meals. Delish! Not very Shanghainese, but great to relax and while away a couple of hours.

021- 6445 2131

Shopping and Art Galleries

A lower-scale but more artistic alternative to Xintiandi and the bigger glitzy shopping malls. Taikang Lu is a pedestrian-only maze of old houses converted into local shops, restaurants and art galleries.

Intersections Conference for TCBN

February 25

Shanghai Help Line 962288 is a telephone number to call to ask for directions, recommendations, translations for Taxi Driver (hand the telephone to the driver and they will translate for you), etc . The number is a 6 digit number!

Fred Cheng of the Wine Hub has brought Shanghai a great experience in wine tasting. He's got a cellar on Kaixiuan Lu and he is focusing on interesting wines from the west coast of the U.S. plus other favorites. There are prices for everyone

Sadly the old side of Wujiang Lu has been destroyed in order to make Shanghai more 'beautiful' for the Expo. Meanwhile, you can still find Yang's Fry Dumplings (生煎包) upstairs in the building with the Costa at the bottom (Nanjing Xi Lu station exit 4).

Has to be seen to be believed. Tackily amazing.

This is a fantastic gem - ideal when visitors encounter a rainy day. The best museum in Shanghai by 100x. The gallery is HUGE - life-size dioramas of old Shanghai - streets, shops, old cars...educational, interactive, and very cool. Highly recommended! Buy tix and enter at the same gate as for entry to the tour that goes up the tower, but then take elevator down to basement, while sweaty unhappy tourists wait in tremendous lines to be herded through dirty windowed galleries up top. Btw, MUCH better to have a drink on the 92nd floor of the SWFC!

Shanghai tours attactions valuable to visit: http://www.synotrip.com/shanghai/tourist-attractions