Updated January 15, 2023 Chinese New Year 中国新年 (zhōng guó xīn nián), commonly called Lunar New Year and Spring Festival, is rich in symbolism and tradition stemming from folklore. It is rooted in the celebration of spring and marks the transition between […]
Joy City is the mall that keeps on giving! Recently I was talking about Joy City with a friend, and he mentioned he’d taken his son to an animal petting zoo there. I thought he had his malls mixed […]
When we moved to Shanghai in 2016, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine us taking weekend road trips to the mountains, swimming in crystal clear mountain streams among forests of towering bamboo! Thankfully friends in the know […]
Waking up to torrential Plum Rains yesterday we were thankful to have booked tickets to Baoyan Paradise, a children’s indoor play centre, at Daning Shopping Centre in Jing’an North. I’d found Baoyan Paradise on Dianping. With over 4000 reviews […]
As malls go, Shanghai Joy City Mall on Xizang North Road in Jing’an is pretty cool. What more could you ask from a mall with two shopping towers and an enormous Ferris wheel hanging off the side of it? […]
As a child growing up in Australia, I remember seeing the Dragon Boat races on the Swan River in Perth. The colourfully painted dragon head on the front of each longboat and the rhythmic drumming of the pace drum […]
Last week my friend, Janette, asked me if I would like to ‘Go and smash some stuff’. I replied with an emphatic ‘YES!’ before she’d even had a chance to explain where, when and how. Janette had heard about […]
The M50 Art Precinct is a must see during your stay in Shanghai. Parks, cultural centres, and tourist sites throughout Shanghai have experienced closures due to continuing Covid-19 restrictions. Even Shanghai Disney Resort, ‘The happiest place on earth,’ closed […]
Old Traditions Die Hard Although attitudes to marriage in China have become freer in the last century, the ancient Chinese tradition of matchmaking continues to this day and many parents still follow the traditional ways to ensure their child […]
Three years living in China! To say ‘time flies when you’re having fun’ would be a massive understatement at this point. It blows my mind to think of all the amazing, and some not so amazing, things that Steve, […]