Shanghai Tan

You must have heard of the idea of “tell me which books do you read, I’ll tell you who you are“? You can apply the same idea to food, fashion, music, and how about a bookstore? Some tourists will invariably go to a bookstore everytime he/she visits a new place. Taking a walk in a [...]

Depuis mon arrivée à Shanghai, étant donné que le canal TV de SRC n’est plus disponible ici, je jette un coup d’oeil sur le site web de Radio-Canada presqu’à chaque jour, pour ne pas être entièrement déconnecté de la vie à Montréal. Ça va assez bien pendant 3 mois… jusqu’au moment où l’événement des deux [...]

I went to assist to the 4th China Adult-Care Expo (第四届中国国际成人保健及生殖健康展览会) yesterday, held at the Shanghai International Exhibition Center at Hongqiao area. I saw the announcement in the Shanghai Daily newspaper. It is rather surprising the approach that they use to sell sex toy here, they put the emphasis much more on the healing effect [...]

It is said that in every urban family of modern China, there is a little kingdom of its own — the king being the only baby of the family, with 6 adults (2 parents plus their own respective parents) watching over him or her. It certainly isn’t good for any society to have such a [...]

There are plenty of reasons why they said that Shanghai is the most westernized city of China, one of them is that the Shanghaineses love to dance and sing and jazz. Of course there are full of Tai Chi practitioners in the park, but no where do I see so many people dancing together in [...]

I found it funny how pets are being sold on the portable pet shop on Shanghai street. Also as funny are the actual pets being sold: not cats or dogs or fishes, but rather chicks, ducks, turtles, rabbits and hamsters! Of course the cats and dogs and fishes are sold in the real pet shops, [...]

Zhong Shan Park (中山公园) is the second largest community park (I think) in Shanghai. Although it is not as famous as the Central Park in NYC or as symbolic as Montreal’s Mount Royal Park, it is the friendliest park I’ve ever seen. It is the “common backyard” of the large community around it. Most of [...]

I take subway to work everyday, it takes around 30 minutes to go a dozen stations. Generally the waiting time is less than a minute but I have to transit between line 1 and line 2, so it takes a bit longer sometime. At the target station there is a special bus that takes us [...]

There are all kinds of buns found on Shanghai streets, but one of them is particularly well known of Shanghai, it’s called Xiao Long Bao (小笼包). It’s a steamed bun, about the size of a golf ball, very thin “skin”, generally meat ball inside but sometime with crab meat also. It’s quite “juicy” when well [...]

S’il faut croire aux histoires de l’institut canadien des produits pétroliers, la dernière vague d’augmentation de prix de l’essence serait due à l’incertitude géopolitique causée par la capture des 15 marines britaniques par la garde côtière iranienne. L’augmentation en janvier serait causée par l’incendie d’une raffinerie en Ontario. L’augmentation précédente était causée par la guerre [...]