Time Out Shanghai blog Your up-to-the-minute guide to Shanghai life, culture, pop-ups and openings It's good news: Shanghai's PM2.5 levels are down and green spaces are on the up If you haven’t noticed already, air quality in Shanghai has been on the up over the past five years. In news that’ll help us all breathe a little easier, according to Shine, the city’s PM2... Read more By: Yu Zhiming Posted: 4:54 pm, 22 January 2021 Popeyes is opening its first Pudong store this Friday with a chance to get 65 percent off In good news for Shanghai’s southern fried chicken fans who live on the east side of the river, the US chain Popeyes is continuing expansion across the city opening its first location in Pudong at Shinmay Union Square tomorrow (Friday... Read more By: Yu Zhiming Posted: 3:58 pm, 21 January 2021 6 limited-edition spirits released just for Year of the Ox We might be limited in terms of travel this Chinese New Year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t raise our glasses and celebrate in Shanghai. Whether you're looking for fancy alcohol gifts for your nearest and dearest – or ... Read more Posted: 1:27 am, 21 January 2021 Japan's biggest bookstore chain has opened its first Shanghai outpost Time to take your nose out of that novel and step outside, there’s a new bookstore in town. Hailing from Japan, the much-hyped Tsutaya opened its doors on Christmas Eve inside a stunning historic villa in Columbia Circle... Read more By: Alastair Reid Schanche Posted: 1:20 am, 20 January 2021 Don't miss this: Tomokazu Matsuyama's exhibit is a little Nirvana Colourful canvases that merge Japanese manga with European paintings, enlarged stainless-steel deer antlers with Cadillac wheels, sculptures inspired by Buddha and fashion magazines.... Read more By: Yu Zhiming Posted: 11:21 pm, 19 January 2021 The best things to do in Shanghai this week Rise and shine Shanghai, the second week of 2021 might be behind us but we've got another equally busy one ahead. The good living in the big city never stops and from Medusa at Elevator, to the return of Cine... Read more By: Rupert Hohwieler Posted: 5:51 pm, 18 January 2021 How to pick the best indoor heater for your home this winter When temperatures drop in Shanghai, they really drop – we've already seen the coldest early-January day in Shanghai since 2005 this month. While those days are almost behind us for another year, we're still looking ahead at a few wee... Read more By: Yu Zhiming Posted: 7:13 pm, 15 January 2021 Shanghai fine dining chefs share their all-time favourite comfort eats Shanghai’s fine dining chefs aren’t only about fancy cuisine. From cold cuts topped with gooey melted cheese to rich and fatty pork intestine noodles, here six chefs spill their all-time favourite comfort foods to see them through the cold winte... Read more Posted: 11:55 pm, 14 January 2021 12 places to check out at lifestyle hub Blackstone Apartments At one time luxury apartments in the heart of Old Xuhui and at another the office of the United Nations Relief and Relocation Administration, the 96-year-old Blackstone Apartments on Fuxing Lu – near the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall – have... Read more By: Alastair Reid Schanche Posted: 5:15 pm, 14 January 2021 Tired of being tired? 6 tips to help you rest easier in 2021 Can’t sleep? No worries, neither can anyone else on the planet... Read more Posted: 12:28 pm, 13 January 2021 Show more
It's good news: Shanghai's PM2.5 levels are down and green spaces are on the up If you haven’t noticed already, air quality in Shanghai has been on the up over the past five years. In news that’ll help us all breathe a little easier, according to Shine, the city’s PM2... Read more By: Yu Zhiming Posted: 4:54 pm, 22 January 2021
Popeyes is opening its first Pudong store this Friday with a chance to get 65 percent off In good news for Shanghai’s southern fried chicken fans who live on the east side of the river, the US chain Popeyes is continuing expansion across the city opening its first location in Pudong at Shinmay Union Square tomorrow (Friday... Read more By: Yu Zhiming Posted: 3:58 pm, 21 January 2021
6 limited-edition spirits released just for Year of the Ox We might be limited in terms of travel this Chinese New Year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t raise our glasses and celebrate in Shanghai. Whether you're looking for fancy alcohol gifts for your nearest and dearest – or ... Read more Posted: 1:27 am, 21 January 2021
Japan's biggest bookstore chain has opened its first Shanghai outpost Time to take your nose out of that novel and step outside, there’s a new bookstore in town. Hailing from Japan, the much-hyped Tsutaya opened its doors on Christmas Eve inside a stunning historic villa in Columbia Circle... Read more By: Alastair Reid Schanche Posted: 1:20 am, 20 January 2021
Don't miss this: Tomokazu Matsuyama's exhibit is a little Nirvana Colourful canvases that merge Japanese manga with European paintings, enlarged stainless-steel deer antlers with Cadillac wheels, sculptures inspired by Buddha and fashion magazines.... Read more By: Yu Zhiming Posted: 11:21 pm, 19 January 2021
The best things to do in Shanghai this week Rise and shine Shanghai, the second week of 2021 might be behind us but we've got another equally busy one ahead. The good living in the big city never stops and from Medusa at Elevator, to the return of Cine... Read more By: Rupert Hohwieler Posted: 5:51 pm, 18 January 2021
How to pick the best indoor heater for your home this winter When temperatures drop in Shanghai, they really drop – we've already seen the coldest early-January day in Shanghai since 2005 this month. While those days are almost behind us for another year, we're still looking ahead at a few wee... Read more By: Yu Zhiming Posted: 7:13 pm, 15 January 2021
Shanghai fine dining chefs share their all-time favourite comfort eats Shanghai’s fine dining chefs aren’t only about fancy cuisine. From cold cuts topped with gooey melted cheese to rich and fatty pork intestine noodles, here six chefs spill their all-time favourite comfort foods to see them through the cold winte... Read more Posted: 11:55 pm, 14 January 2021
12 places to check out at lifestyle hub Blackstone Apartments At one time luxury apartments in the heart of Old Xuhui and at another the office of the United Nations Relief and Relocation Administration, the 96-year-old Blackstone Apartments on Fuxing Lu – near the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall – have... Read more By: Alastair Reid Schanche Posted: 5:15 pm, 14 January 2021
Tired of being tired? 6 tips to help you rest easier in 2021 Can’t sleep? No worries, neither can anyone else on the planet... Read more Posted: 12:28 pm, 13 January 2021