If you’ve got a free couple of hours on a Friday, head to Shanghai Muslim Market for an entirely different China food and smell experience. (And discover that Xinjiang food is not just mutton shaokao! It’s mutton everything!) Other than Muslim food, you’ll find DVDs in what looks like Arabic, [...]
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Heard your Chinese colleagues/friends boasting about their Taobao purchases, and how cheaply they got them? It’s no exaggeration when they say you can get ANYTHING on taobao.com. Other than the usual clothes, accessories, shoes and electronics, you can purchase books and software (both pirated and original), snacks (even 7D dried mangoes from The Philippines), top up your prepaid SIM card, or even develop your digital photos at about a third of what any neighbourhood photo printing shop charges! …
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In recent years, it has been debated whether Chinese cities like Shanghai and Beijing should even exhibit anything related to Christmas, since communism is in direct conflict with religion, and Christmas is, afterall, a religious holiday. Advocates see Chinese celebrating Christmas as idolization of the West, thereby eroding its own culture and traditions, and greatly disapprove. Nevertheless, Christmas sales, dinners, and parties are great for retailers and restauranteurs alike, so it seems that Christmas has come to stay. …
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The Shanghai Sex Toy Market by Suzhou Creek is worth a visit, whether or not you’re a buyer or just plain curious. The market has 4 floors’ worth of products that will enhance your sex life, virility and fertility. The first 3 floors have supplies of Chinese medicinal herbs and other supplements, while the 4th floor exhibits every different kind of adult toy available in stores, and more, because it’s the wholesale sex toy market afterall….
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