Hi all,

Happy (but wet) Friday! Short message this week, work is just piled up. And the rain…geez. Luckily its just for today, or so says the weather reports I have read. Decent weather expected for the rest of the weekend and other than another day of showeres next week, the long weekend next week is supposed to be good too. So plan your trips now! In the meantime I will be on my perennial search for sunshine.

Wow, we have now 769 members as of this week. Amazing that we have this many people considering how little we publicise this group, but that’s cool. For those that want a bit more updates though you can become a fan of ShanghaiExpat.com by joining the new fan group at http://www.facebook.com/pages/ShanghaiExpatcom/74846230644?ref=mf where new info will be posted more often than I post, so click to join.

As for things this weekend and the coming week or so…

Saturday | April 24th, 9pm-late - Temptation in the Garden of Sin @ Sin Lounge happening Saturday Night . Live performers from Ibiza will be doing a performance ; Adam and Even at the Garden at Eden Sin. Live show with special DJ and other promotions this Saturday Night at Sin. Many in the Shanghai Expat community will be attending this to check it out. So those interested please contact Ocean Fu (ocean@shanghaiexpat.com) of Shanghai Expat for VIP table bookings. I believe SHXP will have a table. I will also be there with some friends so come join in the fun!

Little Face on Dong Hu Rd now open serving some 100 dishes. Been meaning to go out and check it out. Maybe some of our members can go and provide us all some feedback?

I DID check out the new Taco Loco on Fuming Rd last week. Their soft taco’s are quite good at 12rmb but the super burrito needs some work still as the large tortillas were a bit stale. (maybe not enough orders yet for the large ones). Sherpas delivers them so maybe you can all get a chance to try them out. Fresh salsa, decent guacamole and decent meat. Only complaint other than the tortilla being bit stale was the Carnitas may have been a bit salty for my taste. Located at 185 Fuming Rd, its pretty conveniently located from Jing An or HuaiHai areas.

Next week I will check out another new place near there that serves crepes. ☺

Speaking of foods, you all really should take advantage of City Weekend’s Gourmet month specials around town before the end of the month. I did try out the offerings at Casa Mia, which is just down the street from my office. Probably would not have gone in but it was quite a good deal and other than the initial cocktail which was rather bland and not suited to my tastes, the rest of the meal was good. Anyhow, may be checking out other restaurants this coming week so maybe I will have more to say about that, but kudos to City Weekend’s events an foods people for putting this promotion together to be a win-win-win deal. The magazine gets adverts, the restaurants get business, and the rest of us get to taste some great places with special offerings this month! More info on Gourmet month: http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/events/41437/?most_viewed=1

Tues | April 28th - NextStep, one of Shanghai’s leading networking organizations, is hosting their next regular entrepreneurial networking event NextStep Tuesday, on April 28th. Now that Spring is here, they are set up to be back at Mesa & Manifesto to enjoy the outdoor terrace. FREE -- NS Members ; 50 RMB -- Non-NS Members. Mesa Manifesto is located at 748 Julu Lu, near Fumin Lu.

Fri-Sat | May 8th-9th - Whisky Live Shanghai 2009 @ Shanghai Exhibition Centre / The Whisky Live Festival Arrives in Shanghai! Building on its international reputation as the world’s most established and exciting whisky tasting event. Whisky Live is the world’s premier whisky tasting show, taking place in 15 countries across the world, including the USA, Scotland, France, South Africa, India and Japan. Ticket price Y300 but ShanghaiExpat members can get it for Y100. Location: 1000 Yan’an Road (M), Shanghai Tel. +86 216 438 5820 (office), +86 136 11 60 1491(mobile) or email: winnie(at) whiskylivechina .com

Saturday | April 25- Community Center Hong Qiao Grand Opening CeremonyGrand Opening of CCS Hongqiao! - The Grand Opening of CCS' new Hongqiao Center will be celebrated with an 'Open House & Ribbon Cutting' on April 25 from 5:30pm to 8pm. CCS welcomes SCIS as the Hongqiao Center’s founding partner. Come meet the CCS Puxi team, enjoy food and refreshments and meet other members of the international community.

((Community Sponsor)) Dry skin? Dry or Brittle Hair? Chlorine smelling showers? We can help! Come by DirectWay and check out the Showerbaby filter which will remove the chlorine from the water before you shower with it. The response is immediate. Come by the showroom at 509 Beijing West Rd, or check out the website at http://english.obusiness.cn/yhhnj/en/water/productlist.jsp for this and several other fine water filtering products.

DirectWay is a proud supporter of the ShanghaiExpat Community! Clean drinking water? Chlorine-free showers? Reduced Detergent use for laundry for eco-friendly washes. Preview the whole line of fine Water filters on the web site at: http://english.obusiness.cn/yhhnj/en/water/productlist.jsp ((Sponsor))

Charity announcements:

Help save the lives of babies in need of critical life saving medical procedures. Two of the co-founders of this foundations are friends of mine that I have only the utmost respect for in that they truly work hard for what they believe in, saving children’s lives, one at a time. Please check out the BaoBei Foundation and donate to a good cause… Give the gift of LIFE! http://www.baobeifoundation.org

Helping Hand Shanghai is distributing an environmentally friendly re-usable shopping bag that can be bought to benefit a choice of Shanghai charities: Shanghai Sunrise, Charity Carnival, Second Chance Animal Aid or Roots and Shoots. Just go to the link for more details: http://www.helpinghandsh.com/ .

Regular event announcements:

Saturday Mornings: The Original Saturday Morning Coffee Meet – this event is an informal place where expats and friends can come and meet old friends and new expats, to compare notes of just simply chat over coffee. Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at Zhong Shan Park’s Cloud Nine Mall graciously hosts the event and offers attendees a discount on drinks and food during the event, every Sat morning from 10:30-12:30. Informally, many in the group will continue onto have lunch together before splitting off to the many activities of the weekend. A great way to start off each weekend. Feel free to contact me about this event as I personally host this one.

Sunday Brunch at XinTianDi is hosted by ShanghaiExpat at the Coffee Bean there.. This event goes from 12 noon- past 2pm and is also a good place to meet up with those in the community .

Wednesday Night Mixers at Malones has been on going now for four years and running strong. Every Wednesday night, Shanghai Expat and Malones come together to host this mixer as a great place to come for food, friends, and fun. Located on the third floor, the mixer is a private space for Shanghai Expat community members new and old to get together and relax and chat. Runs from 9-12midnight, weekly , 3rd floor loft at Malones, 225 Tong Ren Rd near Nanjing Rd .

Ok that’s it for now. Hope everyone has a Sunshine filled weekend!

二号线又称“爱”号线，在这一穿越上海几大CBD（中心商务区）的线路上，有多少可以让你和爱人越逛越浪漫的地方？今天为你搜罗。

Line 2, also known as the "Line of Love", passes through several of Shanghai's larger CBDs [which are full of young, eligible white-collars]. What spots along the Line are good for falling madly and deeply in love? Today, we collect them here for you:

The original post has more details, but here is is the barebones list:

Zhangjiang High-Tech Park

House of Flour: 535 Bibo Rd, Shanghai Legend 1F-105, Pudong

University of Chinese Traditional Medicine Library: 1200 Cailun Road, Pudong

Century Park

Music Box Museum: 425 Diangxiang Rd, Oriental Arts Center 4F (RMB 50)

Century Avenue

Jiangxia Pool Hall: 188 Weifang Rd, Pudong

Dongchang Rd

Dongchang Road Ferry Station: Dongchang Rd and S Pudong Rd

Lujiazui

Fengmei Huachuan Japanese Purikura: Super Brand Mall 621, Pudong

Banking Museum: 9 Pudong Avenue, Century Financial Tower 7F

East Nanjing Road

First Time I Saw You" Noodle House: M Jiangxi Rd and E Nanjing Rd

China Great Theatre：704 Niuzhuang Rd, Huangpu

Tom's World at Baodaxiang: 673 E Nanjing Rd, Baodaxiang Children's Department Store B1

People's Square

Yifeng Model Shop: 457-459 W Nanjing Rd, Huangpu

West Nanjing Road

gz Coffee Shop: 1025 W Nanjing Rd, No 162

Scream and Shout Labyrinth of Darkness: 2-68 W Nanjing Rd, New World Mall 10F

Jing'an Temple

Poplar Kids Republic Bookstore: 262 Yuyuan Rd

Mr. Coffee: 121 Urumqi Rd

Jiangsu Road

WELOVE Hotel: 33 Wanghangdu Rd 4F

Zhongshan Park

Yidong Park Museum of Art: 780 Changning Rd, Gate 3 in Zhongshan Park

Royal Garden Restaurant: 780 Changning Rd, Zhongshan Park

Loushanguan Road

Hongqiao Greenbelt Tearoom: 2238 W Yan'an Road, Changning

 
[Editor's note: Jodi and I held our wedding at the Royal Garden in Zhongshan Park.]

Tacos.

Or rather a taco. I had a really good one last night at a new little place i walked by. Here i was thinking i was meeting my friends for a Shanghainese dinner at BaoLuo on Fuming rd when i got greeted by a staff member of this new place and i saw at the corner of my eye, the menu board listing "Taco 12rmb" ! The place looked a bit like a well lit juice bar but I figured i was a bit hungry and still had half an hour to wait so what the heck. The place is called Taco Loco and is already delivered by Sherpas! Their menu is simple: Soft tacos, Burritos, Super Burritos, and Quesadilla; all available with beef carne asada, grilled chicken, or pork carnitas. they have fresh salsa and greens, and offer sour cream topping. MMMMM! At 12 rmb, the soft taco was decently filling for a snack and a great intro to their Steak carne asada offering as the meat was good quality and tasted quite good! Cannot wait to go back and see how the Burritos are, which include rice, black beans and even guacomole! :) Located at 185 Fumin Rd ; they deliver nearby their store free by calling 51032348, or via Sherpas for longer distances. Oh they offer a selection of Fresh squeezed juices as well.

New English Paper?

As i got to the metro station on the way to work today, a gal was passing out a free paper to all the non-chinese looking people. I took a quick look and it was a new English paper called the Global times. Given that I look too Chinese i suppose, I was not offered a copy, but still, its good to see more selection out there. You can take a look at their website though to get a feeling that they are serious and want to push this paper. Good luck to them. http://www.globaltimes.cn/

Eco-Design Fair report

I attended the Eco Design fair last weekend as an exhibitor for our water filters, but also as an attendee as I walked through the 40+ exhibitors' displays and checked out eco-friendly products. I still really like the business called Live Green, who sells natural fiber cloths and eco-friendly gifts and products online. Last show they had one booth, this show they had FOUR! Amazing selection fo stuff. i liked the solar mobile charger pack the best as it allowed the sunlight or be stored in a charge pack and then plugged into virtually any mobile phone or mps player with some dozen different power attachements. Another was their vesion of the washer ball, a spring loaded wash device that gently pounds the clothing in the washing machine eliminating the need for detergent. Here is the site for this biz: http://www.livegreen.com.cn/en/index.asp

Sadly not all the stuff mentioned is on the English site so you may want to just check the Chinese page for more info.

And last but not least a cool video link courtesy of my good friend Li:

Link: http://blog.foolsmountain.com/2009/04/15/how-should-foreigners-feel-about-being-called-%E9%AC%BC%E5%AD%90-%E9%AC%BC%E4%BD%AC-%E8%80%81%E5%A4%96-etc/

I always found it amusing when my parents (of Chinese heritage) referred to non-chinese as "foriegners" 外国人， while living in the US. It seems i am not the only one as Fools Mountain a blog about China and such made mention of it this week too!

So how about it? My expat friends are mixed about the usage of "laowai" and whether or not they take it as offensive. I personally see that the term is neutral and that it depends on the usage. Better than the terms used in Hong Kong any how "guailow" 鬼老 which has a much more negative connotation even before considering the usage.

Anyhow any thoughts?

http://blog.foolsmountain.com/2009/04/15/how-should-foreigners-feel-about-being-called-%E9%AC%BC%E5%AD%90-%E9%AC%BC%E4%BD%AC-%E8%80%81%E5%A4%96-etc/

Just had to laugh at this really well made sign at a restaurant out near Brilliance West Mall. I guess depending on how one reads the actual works in Chinese, the English translation could be considered correct. But I suppose its better than the Error Message translation sign I saw on another blog. Anyhow amusing nonetheless. :)

Wet? Not wet? Not good for formula race cars to worry about but at least its warmer! And either way it WILL be warm (yes, yes, back to my weather thoughts ;)) this weekend so be prepared as we expect highs in the mid 20’s this weekend! ☺ Alas spring starts and summer will rear its hot head.

Weird week this week as it started out quiet but then got busy by mid week. Given this pattern, it will be a great weekend! Had a chance to check out a new club on hengshan Rd called Soho and despite its billing to be a foreigner’s bar/ club, its distinctly Chinese in the way its put together. I do give the management credit though for getting their staff professionally honed to provide adequate service at their pre-opening/ grand opening event, something many clubs fail at. But the place is kinda tacky in my opinion.

Another more fun pre-opening I attended was Eduardo’s new Vargas Grill tasting where I got to hang with certain food writers from several expat magazine and such, to taste some preliminary dishes Eduardo is considering for his place. Some 16 dishes and 30 wines later…it was an experience. Vargas Grill will be located at where the late-Bambou was on Dong Ping Rd and will open soon.
http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/articles/blogs-shanghai/shanghai-the-dish-new/
http://shanghai.urbanatomy.com/index.php/component/search/apple%20mandy?ordering=&searchphrase=all

Lots happening this weekend. Cheer leaders at Sashas, eco design Fair by the Creek, and race cars a plenty with racers and race fans in town for formula one!

This weekend will be interesting as the weather will also likely improve to accommodate all these events. Cool.

So here are some upcoming Events, this Weekend & beyond:
Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:00pm - 10:00pm @ Zapata's & Sasha's
Roots and Shoots Charity event featuring the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders! The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, in Shanghai, one night ONLY! April 17th 2009 Sasha's & Zapata's! Meet the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders & Celebrate the Great American Experience!! 7pm-10pm, 150rmb entry including 4 drinks. Proceeds from the door go to support Shanghai Roots and Shoots. Tickets are limited, so hurry up and reserve yours now! More info: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=62706999118&ref=ts

Eco Design Fair Spring 2009 is happening this Saturday at Anken Green! Come check out the latest green and eco-friendly products for health, home, life and building. Being presented this time at a new venue, Anken Green, an Eco-friendly building project located at the edge of the Suzhou Creek. Eco products, Organic farmers market, Green Home products, Healthy water solutions, and various workshops and presentations about living healthy and eco-friendly in Shanghai. A silent Eco-Auction will run thru the entire event for a list of great prizes and gifts. From 10-5 Saturda, come check it out! For more info: www.ecodesignfair.cn

Friday-Sunday, April 17-19, 2009 @ Shanghai Circuit in Anting Town JiaDing. Formula One (F1) Shanghai happens this weekend starting with Practice runs on Friday, Qualifiers on Saturday and the race on Sunday. May be wet for practice runs, but it’s looking like good warm weather for the qualifiers and race day so for those of you headed out, bring sunscreen and expect warm weather with highs of 24-25˚c. For those interested but have not gone out to get tickets, don’t despair, scalpers with decent tickets are usually easily found at the bus station for the shuttles to the track and at the track it self.

Saturday & Sunday April 18-19, 9pm till late @ Four Seasons Hotel – Beyond the Line Grand Prix party. For more info check out Riviera Events’ site at http://www.rivieraevents.com .

Saturday , April 25, 2009 Next Saturday Mirage Events presents Temptation at Sin Lounge which will feature live performance actors from Ibiza re-enacting Adam & Eve’s experience in the Garden of …well anyhow. It will be unique and I may just go see what all the hoo haa is about.

Saturday , April 25- Community Center Hong Qiao Grand Opening CeremonyGrand Opening of CCS Hongqiao! - The Grand Opening of CCS' new Hongqiao Center will be celebrated with an 'Open House & Ribbon Cutting' on April 25 from 5:30pm to 8pm. CCS welcomes SCIS as the Hongqiao Center’s founding partner. Come meet the CCS Puxi team, enjoy food and refreshments and meet other members of the international community.

[sponsor] Come to the Eco-Design Fair at Anken Green this Saturday and check out Directway’s “Water is Life” products. Come taste the healthy drinking water from the reputed Atlantis Drinking water purifier, and see the range of water products you may ave read about online. Directway will have English and Chinese speaking reps on hand to explain the products and how they can improve you and your family’s quality of life!
Come to Booth #37 as you come the the Eco-Design fair to check out so many eco and health friendly products for living in Shanghai! The Eco Design Fair is being held at Anken Green, 668 Huai An Rd at West Suzhou Creek Rd. For more info come to www.obusiness.com.cn and see the Info pop up window for more details! Or contact us at englishinfo@yourhh.com or 6218-7799 x 175 or 195 . [//sponsor]

Charity announcements:

Help save the lives of babies in need of critical life saving medical procedures. Two of the co-founders of this foundations are friends of mine that I have only the utmost respect for in that they truly work hard for what they believe in, saving children’s lives, one at a time. Please check out the BaoBei Foundation and donate to a good cause… Give the gift of LIFE! http://www.baobeifoundation.org

Helping Hand Shanghai is distributing an environmentally friendly re-usable shopping bag that can be bought to benefit a choice of Shanghai charities: Shanghai Sunrise, Charity Carnival, Second Chance Animal Aid or Roots and Shoots. Just go to the link for more details: http://www.helpinghandsh.com/ .

Regular event announcements:

Saturday Mornings: The Original Saturday Morning Coffee Meet – this event is an informal place where expats and friends can come and meet old friends and new expats, to compare notes of just simply chat over coffee. Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at Zhong Shan Park’s Cloud Nine Mall graciously hosts the event and offers attendees a discount on drinks and food during the event, every Sat morning from 10:30-12:30. Informally, many in the group will continue onto have lunch together before splitting off to the many activities of the weekend. A great way to start off each weekend. Feel free to contact me about this event as I personally host this one.

Sunday Brunch at XinTianDi is hosted by ShanghaiExpat at the Coffee Bean there.. This event goes from 12 noon- past 2pm and is also a good place to meet up with those in the community .

Wednesday Night Mixers at Malones has been on going now for four years and running strong. Every Wednesday night, Shanghai Expat and Malones come together to host this mixer as a great place to come for food, friends, and fun. Located on the third floor, the mixer is a private space for Shanghai Expat community members new and old to get together and relax and chat. Runs from 9-12midnight, weekly , 3rd floor loft at Malones, 225 Tong Ren Rd near Nanjing Rd .

Ok that’s all folks! Have a great weekend and enjoy the races and fantastic weather (wishful/ hopeful thinking as I really want to see sunshine all weekend!)

Cheers!

Ed

While sitting at New York Style Pizza last night, a gruff middle-aged American walked in and ordered two slices to go. The gal behind the counter sends the slices upstairs to heat up as always and the American guy stands around impatient as hell.

Meanwhile, another guest at a table requests his leftover slices be packed to go so the waitress picks those up and takes it over to the front counter to pack up. As the counter gal finishes packing them, the gruff American guy at the counter grabs it to go. The counter gal screams and pulls the bag away explaining in Chinese that this was NOT his pizza and that his was coming from the oven upstairs, even pointing upstairs. the gruff American guy gets angry and walks out of the place slamming the sliding doors behind him.

The counter gal then brings the leftover pizza to the guest at the table while another gal brought the heated slices downstairs only to find no customer to accept them.

It was amusing to see the American guy get so wound up. The counter gal's body language clearly indicated he was wrong about something. Given the absolute lack of native language skills he had, I can understand why he must have been flustered, but the enourmous level of class he showed in stomping out the place and slamming the door borders on a level of idiocy reserved for jackass expats that give teh rest of us a bad name...anyhow. Moral of the story, learn Chinese if you want to live here b/c its easier than teaching all of them English.

And oh yeah, New York Style Pizza is quite good. :)

I hate it when work gets in the way of life but alas this had been a hellish week. Reminder to all, do not trust your HR department to remind you that your Residence and Work Permits are expiring. Just did the mad dash to complete my renewal process and it wasn’t pretty. But I got it in just under the wire. Whew~! So now that I am legal again for another year, I am back catching up on all the work I left on my desk as I waited in lines at the labor bureau and Entry Exit offices. But I will update my blog soon, with details of these processes, for those in need of doing so.

The sunshine disappeared. Yet if it were not for these swings back and forth from cold to nice, Spring would likely skip Shanghai all-together as it really would just jump straight into Summer. Good for those who like heat, but I prefer keeping cooler. But still, wish I could see the Sunshine more.

Long weekend this weekend as officially its Tomb Sweeping festival and many locals will go pay respect to their ancestors. For those of us not going anywhere, it will be a quiet weekend unless one is trying to travel. The trains and buses are packed! Anyhow, Monday is a day off for most local companies.

Its April! It is almost time for the third edition of the Eco-Design Fair! This time, the event will be held at Anken Green, an environmental warehouse rebuild/refurb that is now an office building with a cool event space. It will be April 18, so, please, those interested should pencil it into their calendars.

ShanghaiExpat.com fans can join the new fan group at http://www.facebook.com/pages/ShanghaiExpatcom/74846230644?ref=mf where new info will be posted more often than I post, so click to join.

Gourmet Month. April is Gourmet month here in Shanghai as City Weekend has arranged a selection of restaurants across Shanghai to offer up special price fixed menues as a discount to allow diners to come in and try them out. Different restaurants have different specials happening. For details, check out City Weekend’s site at: http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/articles/blogs-shanghai/sh-gourmet-month/introducing-the-food-festival-to-make-you-eat-out-every-single-night/ A review of one restaurant’s offerings was posted to Shanghaiist already: http://shanghaiist.com/2009/03/31/gourmet_month.php . Join in the fun and enjoy the food!

Saturday evening, April 4, 7pm @ Ruby Red Cellars presents a special opportunity to taste a series of Chateauneuf Du Pape wines. A good Chateauneuf-du-Pape is first and foremost a wine-lover's wine. A classic Chateauneuf can offer the fruit flavors that most wine drinkers love so well, ranging from cherry and blueberry to deep, rich raspberry. It can also have intense aromas of violets and other flowers, woven through with whiffs of earth and Provencal herbs, spices and a little of what is politely termed "barnyard”. A tasting of 2005 & 2006 vintages will take place this Saturday evening at Ruby Red. RSVP for this event by calling 62343031 or email info@rubyred.com.cn today. Cost per person is 350rmb.

April 18- Eco-Design Fair @ Anken Green > This third edition of the eco conscious fair will be held at a new venue this time, Anken Green. More details at: http://www.ecodesignfair.cn/

April 23, Thursday @ The China Cristal Awards will be holding its first annual advertising and media festival in Shanghai. For more info: http://www.chinacristal.com

April 25- Community Center Hong Qiao Grand Opening CeremonyGrand Opening of CCS Hongqiao! - The Grand Opening of CCS' new Hongqiao Center will be celebrated with an 'Open House & Ribbon Cutting' on April 25 from 5:30pm to 8pm. CCS welcomes SCIS as the Hongqiao Center’s founding partner. Come meet the CCS Puxi team, enjoy food and refreshments and meet other members of the international community.

((Community Sponsor)) Dry skin? Dry or Brittle Hair? Chlorine smelling showers? We can help! Come by DirectWay and check out the Showerbaby filter which will remove the chlorine from the water before you shower with it. The response is immediate. Com eby the showroom at 509 Beijing West Rd, or check out the website at http://english.obusiness.cn/yhhnj/en/water/productlist.jsp for this and several other fine water filtering products.

DirectWay is a proud supporter of the ShanghaiExpat Community! Clean drinking water? Chlorine-free showers? Reduced Detergent use for laundry for eco-friendly washes. Preview the whole line of fine Water filters on the web site at: http://english.obusiness.cn/yhhnj/en/water/productlist.jsp ((Sponsor))

Charity announcements:

Help save the lives of babies in need of critical life saving medical procedures. Two of the co-founders of this foundations are friends of mine that I have only the utmost respect for in that they truly work hard for what they believe in, saving children’s lives, one at a time. Please check out the BaoBei Foundation and donate to a good cause… Give the gift of LIFE! http://www.baobeifoundation.org

Helping Hand Shanghai is distributing an environmentally friendly re-usable shopping bag that can be bought to benefit a choice of Shanghai charities: Shanghai Sunrise, Charity Carnival, Second Chance Animal Aid or Roots and Shoots. Just go to the link for more details: http://www.helpinghandsh.com/ .

Regular event announcements:

Saturday Mornings: The Original Saturday Morning Coffee Meet – this event is an informal place where expats and friends can come and meet old friends and new expats, to compare notes of just simply chat over coffee. Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at Zhong Shan Park’s Cloud Nine Mall graciously hosts the event and offers attendees a discount on drinks and food during the event, every Sat morning from 10:30-12:30. Informally, many in the group will continue onto have lunch together before splitting off to the many activities of the weekend. A great way to start off each weekend. Feel free to contact me about this event as I personally host this one.

Sunday Brunch at XinTianDi is hosted by ShanghaiExpat at the Coffee Bean there.. This event goes from 12 noon- past 2pm and is also a good place to meet up with those in the community .

Wednesday Night Mixers at Malones has been on going now for four years and running strong. Every Wednesday night, Shanghai Expat and Malones come together to host this mixer as a great place to come for food, friends, and fun. Located on the third floor, the mixer is a private space for Shanghai Expat community members new and old to get together and relax and chat. Runs from 9-12midnight, weekly , 3rd floor loft at Malones, 225 Tong Ren Rd near Nanjing Rd .

Thats all for now folks! Have a great long weekend!

Ed