May-May's Diary
Entry for February 22, 1999
Smooch Smooch
It's Valentine's Day any minute now, and Shanghai Edition would like to take this oppotunity to offer a few suggestions on special places to take that very special person. Shanghai has quite a lot of them including the garden of the Ruijin Hotel, which in one corner features a swing on which you can swing with the person of your dreams. The Shanghai Mansion near the Bund has a couple of balconies on the 17th and 18th floor which if you ask nicely, the attendants will allow you to check out, giving you a stunning view south from Suzhou Creek along the Bund. The top floor bar in the Garden Hotel offering views down onto Maoming Lu and Huaihai Lu is quiet and intimate, the perfect place for a champagne. But the single most romantic thing that we can think of is to take your date in a taxi across the Huangpu to Pudong, go to the ferry pier opposite the Bund, and sail back to the city. The sight of the Bund buildings all lit up in their fairy tale lights is as good at it gets in this rather flat city.
Zainil Jingli
YY's has a new managerette, social butterfly Zainil, who is in her element, making everyone feel at home in what is at this point without doubt, the place to be late on a Friday and Saturday night.
Popcorn
A new multiplex cinema opened this week in the Westgate Mall. The multiplex may help plant the movie-going habit that exists elsewhare, where it is not so much the story, but the popcorn, sound, and dinner afterwards that makes for a complete night out. It will be interesting to see what films are offered - foreign films in original versions are planned as well as local movies with English subtitles.
Margarita
A real margarita is now finally available in Shanghai. TGIFriday's has managed to produce a truly great margarita with all the necessary ingredients, tequila, cointreau, sweet and sour, and the salt.
Wei!?!?
Mobile phones are taking over. Spotted a couple of days ago was a driver of one of the huge heavy earth moving trucks currently, lined up on Xiangyang Lu every night talking animatedly on his mobile. A chicken in every pot, a mobile phone in every hand.
Luscious hair, bro!
Quinn, singer/guitarist at the Cotton Club, noted for his extraordinary thick hair, seems to prove that anti-balding solution Activeur 7, the hair tonic of choice at the moment for the folically challenged, really d oes work. And his Chinese is getting really good too.
Techno lust
Yet to be spotted in Shanghai is one of the tiny Sony Vaio computers with a video attachment, and we still live in hope of being the first in the city to have one.
Calling Chad
And, Chad where are you? Give Graham a call.
Byeeeee!!!
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