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There is a new Indian restaurant in Taikang Lu called Lotus Land, which we enjoyed recently. I am going there tonight.
I like it, because the food is very tasty and reminds me of my favourite Indian food from the UK. The menu includes tikkas, biryanis, saag paneer and lassi yoghurt drinks. It has a hippy [...]

The staff at Xintiandi’s Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf do not know the difference between chicken, turkey and ham.
We went to CBTL for dinner last night. Jenny ordered the chicken and mushroom fusilli dish, but they had great trouble giving her what she ordered.
First, they gave her pasta with mushrooms, but no chicken. We sent [...]

On Sunday night we braved the cold to traipse over to Southern Barbarian in Jinxian Lu.
Southern Barbarian serves Yunnanese cuisine from the south western province that borders Laos and Vietnam. The food there is well known for being spicy.
The restaurant is on the second floor of the market that is sandwiched between [...]

I hope this cheesecake tastes as good as it looks. We are eating to mark the arrival of Miss Gao in her new house near Fudan University.

Eating with chopsticks can be tricky for those of us who first picked them up quite late in life. Even though we’ve been using them for a while, our frequent spillages suggest that we need to refine our chopstick wielding skills. Success in this endeavour will generate the same level of praise hitherto reserved for [...]

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Restaurant Review: H & Y, originally uploaded by shanghaimat.

Maoming Lu is no longer a wild party street. Gone are the lascivious hostesses running around in noisy, chaotic fashion challenging beer drenched men to games of [...]

If it’s OK for Belgians to dip their chips in mayonnaise then it is also fine for Shanghainese to cover theirs with ice cream.

Spago is a new fusion restaurant opposite the fake market in Nanjing Xi Lu. It is easy to overlook this place from the street, because it is tucked away in an alley like an inconspicuous noodle shack.
Walk through the door and you are immediately greeted by a very cool bistro café replete with predominantly white [...]

Here is a little video I put together using the online video editor, Eyespot. It teaches you how to make your own glutinous rice ball dumplings with ice cream and chocolate sauce. You can buy the rice balls at any convenience store for just a few kuai. By the way, tong yuen should be spelled [...]

Each culture has its own tastes and expectations and that extends to cakes for special occasions such as birthdays and weddings. I love Chinese food, but the local bakeries often make sickly sweet cakes that are full of cream textured like shaving foam. In short, I miss the delicious bread and cakes that I used [...]