It has been a hard couple weeks, months, years, decades, but in the interest of staying positive and being useful. I’ve travelled all over Shanghai sampling ramen. I was traveling all over Asia eating ramen before it was cool. I’ve been to Ramen Alley twice. So if this is not the definitive ramen in Shanghai post it will have to do until something better comes along…

I’ve lived in Shanghai a long time, I’ve eaten my share of burgers. I also know how to BarBQ a mean burger. I know what I like. Despite all this I travelled around Shanghai trying a bunch more burger joints, stands, and restaurants that coworkers or experts recommended but none of them will become my regular or goto burger…

I’ve lived in Shanghai for over three years now and in that time I’ve drank a lot of coffee. I hardly ever drank coffee before I did my Master’s degree. But during my time as a graduate student I got into the habit of both studying and taking study breaks in cafes and having a mocha. Now I’m well known in certain cafes in Shanghai for always ordering a mocha…

I’ve been in Shanghai a few years now and I’ve drank more than a few beers. It is time to share some of my hard earned knowledge and carefully taken photos with the Internet…

After living here for almost three years, I think I’m qualified to play tour guide in Shanghai. I recently played tour guide again…