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Service Announcement: Mandarin Morning Spam

Attention all EnjoyShanghai.com users, would Mandarin Morning kindly come to the service desk so we can slap you with a wet fish? While leaflet spam makes wonderful toilet paper when you're running low, and tinned Spam is actually not as inedible as it's made out to be, online spam is relatively useless and we really have no purpose for it. We suggest you find another site where you can mark your territory using urine and excrement.

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WILTW: Waboba, John Moores and Spain's Stars

Waboba is offering a pair of people the chance to win a holiday trip to the beautiful Sanya beach. "What is this Waboba?" I'm sure you're ecstatically clamoring. It is none other than the famed Swedish water bouncing ball (waboba for short), that enigmatic creation which I for one have never heard of, though I'm sure it's oodles of joyfulness. It magically "defies the laws of physics", and if you use it in a three-minute video, you could win a...[read more]

What I Learnt This Week: Bye Bye Purple, Hello Lots of Other Stuff

The French mastermind behind Le Saleya, Graffiti and La Grange, Alexandre Daune is opening up a new location to accommodate the city's ravenous appetite for French-style bread and meats. Combining his previous butcher and baker ventures, the only thing Les Garcon Bouchers and La Boulangerie still lacks is a candlestick maker. Setting up shop on 356-1 ShuiCheng S. Road, near YanAn W. Road, you'll be able to buy pate, foie gras and meats at Les Garcons Bouchers, while La Boulangerie...[read more]

What I Learnt This Week: Openings Galore

I've developed an unhealthy obsession with M2. When is it going to open? The management don't seem to have a particular date set and every time I ask it's another day. I'm beginning to think they're just blurting out the first number that comes to mind. It makes you wonder what exactly is going on behind the doors of its new residence, up on the fourth floor of the Hong Kong Plaza. As they've booked John Digweed for the decks,...[read more]

Tandoori = Kitchen Fire ???

And another one goes down in flames. Last year Bukhara caught fire. No one was hurt - well, except for those of us who "need" frequent helpings of their butter chicken and black dal.

Last night unfortunately the same calamity happened to another Indian favorite, Masala Art. Diners were seen exiting their original Dagu Lu restaurant as the kitchen filled with smoke. Again, luckily no one seems to have been hurt. This time around though, Indian food addicts like myself have...[read more]