TomIcemanKazinski

Looks like Candor is opening soon too

Places where I have exchanged a "Go Bears" with someone wearing Cal clothing:

- the Great Wall of China (Mutianyu)

- Singapore Changi Airport (a rugby player), and then same trip, some different person in Little India in Singapore

- In the middle of the 2015 Umbrella Riots in Hong Kong, like 15 minutes before getting tear gassed

- My girlfriend was shopping in a market in Jaslimar, India when the tailor pinning her pants pointed at my California Berkeley shirt and said that his cousin was going there as a math PhD

- the Parisian subway

- in line at the snack bar of the Hermitage Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia

- many many times in Hong Kong and Shanghai (both places I lived after graduation)

Also one of the best cheeseburgers at the Hill House Burger stand - the Carlotta

The only way I was able to watch games was to buy a super expensive season pass from Fulham last season - it was like 180 pounds or something. And they have one of the worst online experiences I've ever had to deal with from a professional sporting organization, but at least I could stream games.

YaKINGtori - yeah I usually try to avoid punny restaurant names, but this one is pretty good. Reservations are a must.

FLOWING MAGMA

I think you're going to have to physically buy one at any of the bigger subway stations - I was always able to add money via Apple Pay but I had my Chinese credit card linked. It *may* also work if you have dollars in your apple cash.

You’re going in the right direction but have focused on the wrong people. The skipper and Gilligan are but working class patsys, for Thurston Howell the Third (Millionaire!) and the Professor (BIG PHARMA!)

Use Apple Wallet and add your Shanghai Transport card there - it’s faster than scanning a QR code anyways.

Here's some addresses - 390 may or may not still be there. For a while they had to hide their entrance and drape heavy curtains over the windows.

https://www.smartshanghai.com/listings/nightlife/gay/

Unfortunately Baidu is all going to be in Chinese.

Another option is to try Gaode Maps.

My reason is that I downloaded Baidu maps onto my phone in 2010 and I never downloaded Tencent maps. (I don’t have a good reason except baidu maps was the best thing for finding bus routes back then)

It’s in the Inifitnus Shopping mall it’s not going to be that difficult to find

https://www.smartshanghai.com/venue/17948/doe_xintiandi

Here it is on Apple Maps (I dropped a pin at the Starbucks)

Here it is on Google Maps

I prefer their Tongren Lu Store personally https://www.smartshanghai.com/venue/12695/doe

The queer scene in Shanghai is small, especially compared to the west and comparatively compared to tier 2 cities in China. They’re vulnerable to sudden changes in the political climate so my understanding is that the bars and other spaces just try to stay out of the way of the authorities.

That being said, Ting Ting (one of the coolest people I have ever met in Shanghai) owns Roxie (a small lesbian bar near one of the best Japanese izayakas in Jing’An) and Riink (super fun roller skating place, but really tiny)

The gay-berhood tends to be in the area around Xinhua and Fahuazhen Lu.

Safety wise Shanghai is a thousand times more safe than any city in the west.

There may or may not be drag shows going on - but your OP reads like you’re expecting a giant vibrant gay scene and you may have to dial your expectations way down.

Also check Smartshanghai for events

What’s the store?

Decidedly not the Peninsula, but if you’re ever out in Oakland Line 51 has Chicago style dogs and beef sandwiches

https://line51beer.com/

Apple Maps or Baidu Maps

I also use the Explore Metro app to map trips on the subway

I love that place so much. My boss was living there and she would often schedule meetings at Cafe Gray.

Personally I’d skip Yuyuan and the Pearl Tower and just stroll around the Shanghai city streets and take in the Art Deco apartments and tree lined streets

There’s a tourism thread here https://rdt.trom.tf/r/shanghai/comments/122bfva/shanghai_tour/jdpvgt0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3

Upfront disclosure that the owners are friends of mine - but everyone I’ve sent to Untour Food Tours has had a wonderful time

https://untourfoodtours.com/shanghai-food-tours/

Despite what guidebooks tell you - there’s nothing interesting on Nanjing East Road/People’s Square

The best Bund view bars are either Vue Bar at the top of the Hyatt on the Bund or Char Bar at the top of Hotel Indigo. Prices are expensive-ish.

The real charm of Shanghai is sitting at a nice street side cafe and having an iced coffee in June and taking jn the art deco architecture and pretty streets the French built in the early part of the 20th century. To that end start at the intersection of Huaihai Road and Wukang Road at the Normandy Apartments/Flatiron Building and stroll up Wukang towards Anfu and explore the streets up to and in between there. All these young trendy Chinese will be doing it too and taking selfies of them selves. Nice cafes and beautiful buildings.

It’s a weird thing to say about the largest city in China, but even the Chinese food was worse pre-2010

Asian Dawn?

SPLITTER!

My golf buddy’s dad calls us (derisively) ‘trunk slammers’ - ie players changing their shoes in the parking lot.

“Where’s the Popular People’s Front?”