Category Archives: District of Shanghai

Dim Sum

Posted on December 14, 2016 by The Pearl

Apart from sightseeing, writing and quilting one of the things that has kept me off the streets of Shanghai has been my cookery lessons at The Chinese Cooking Workshop.  Just after we arrived I reported to you my first Dim … Continue reading →

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Prunus Mume

Posted on December 8, 2016 by The Pearl

As I write this in the first week of December, the temperature in Shanghai is in the mid teens.  Having just got back from a three week trip to the England and Scotland this is warm, yet the locals are … Continue reading →

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The J G Ballard Walk

Posted on November 8, 2016 by The Pearl

If you have ever seen the film The Empire of the Sun, or read the books of J G Ballard you will have some idea of the early life of James Graham Ballard in Shanghai, but in the case of … Continue reading →

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The South Xizang (Tibet) Rd Pet Market

Posted on November 4, 2016 by The Pearl

There are flower-cum-pet markets all over Shanghai, but the most fascinating is perhaps the one in South Xizang Road which runs north to south just to the west of the Old City of Shanghai.  The nearest metro station is Laoximen, … Continue reading →

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Gubei’s Pyongyang Restaurant

Posted on November 2, 2016 by The Pearl

 As I think I have mentioned before we live in a predominantly Japanese/ Taiwanese/Korean area of Shanghai, with our own Japanese Department Store, Takashimaya, above our metro station and with a number of smaller shops and restaurants in the area … Continue reading →

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Carrying Poles

Posted on October 28, 2016 by The Pearl

Sometime last year I posted about our trip to Amoy in Fujian Province (Amoy in Fujian; Xiamen in Mandarin) with its large round houses and some of the pictures showed women selling fruit from baskets which they carry along on … Continue reading →

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The 3″ Golden Lotus

Posted on October 26, 2016 by The Pearl

This is a rather gruesome post.  If you can’t cope with human cruelty and what one women will do to her daughter in the name of beauty I suggest you skip this one. On 25th August this year I went with … Continue reading →

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Quilting Update

Posted on October 24, 2016 by The Pearl

I promised many moons ago that I would keep you up to date with my quilting group.  I confess I haven’t.  We meet every Thursday at a member’s apartment and promise to do at least 5 stitches in the four … Continue reading →

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Our Daughter Hits Shanghai

Posted on October 22, 2016 by The Pearl

It was over a year before our daughter Rosalind made it out to see us in Shanghai.  For the first half of our first year that we had been living as expats in China Rozy had been doing her final … Continue reading →

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An Auspicious Day

Posted on October 20, 2016 by The Pearl

On the 8th of September last year I was on my way to Carrefour to fetch some shopping . The 8th of the month is a very auspicious day here in China.  As here the number 8, 八 (bā in pinyin) is consider … Continue reading →

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