Off to the side of Nanjing is a patch of green. That green is Zhongshan, a miniature range of hills, home to a few parks, Linggu Pagoda, the Ming Tomb, Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum and a tour-de-force-of-Chinese antitourism at it's very best.
So yeah. New job, MBA graduation, Nanjing, Chongming, fixed gear rolling, new office digs and kitties freaking out with yellow ribbon around their necks. Spring highlights on triplefiveshanghai.
In a culinary distillation, Sean Jorgensen’s Avalon has toned down the molecules and dialled up the grill. We took a chance to revisit his ultra-chic spot to find that star quality comes in many forms.
Wait a minute. The boards from a construction site came down the other day and behind wasn't a concrete housing turd. Somebody must have really screwed up. Maybe they found an ancient burial site or people living in the sewers but for whatever reason, down at the bleak end of Beijing Lu there's a shiny new sculpture park.
Here's the Sphinx slide at the Harbin Ice Festival. In the absence of an attendant to regulate traffic, visitors are free to chuck themselves down at will, with hilarious effect.
We made an order with Shanghai Organics and two days later this arrived.
As the Design-Build network so eloquently stated "To meet demand, and to house its emerging middle class, Shanghai has sought inspiration from the Western nations that once dominated the city.".