Articles populaires – One year in Shanghai

24 mars 2012

Longhua Temple/Temple Longhua

Denzil's school friend, Clive, is visiting us this weekend so we are doing a bit of sightseeing. Lion dance and offerings for the dead at Longhua Temple (Southern part of Shanghai) a few days before Ching Ming Festival (festival to honour dead where Chinese...

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14 août 2012

Songjiang

Afternoon visit to Songjiang, in Shanghai's SW suburb - very old mosque dating from Yuan Dynasty, beautifully restored. Cet après-midi, visite de Songjiang dans la banlieue sud-ouest de Shanghai ; très vieille mosquée datant de la dynastie Yuan, superbement...

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Tags: day trip, Temple, mosque

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13 mai 2012

Sunday in Pudong and Puxi/ dimanche côté Pudong, côté Puxi

Late start today to the Science and Technology Museum on Pudong side- near the Century Park; we skipped the Bottle Opener - which was in the clouds - and headed right to ... the HD shop on Nanjing Road on Puxi side. On a démarré (pas très tôt) par le...

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Tags: Shanghai, Famille, Cuisine

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2 janvier 2012

No Man's time

I braved the chilly temperature (4 C) to resume my Chinese classes today; my teacher kindly accepted to delay my test to Friday, I have three days to cram for it. J'ai bravé le froid (4 C) pour reprendre les cours de chinois ce matin- ma prof a gentilment...

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Tags: Shanghai, streets, festival

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1 janvier 2012

Happy New Year / Bonne année

新年快乐！ Happy new year to you all! We flew back to Shanghai on the 31st right on time to celebrate the new year. Thanks to Alexandra, we had foie gras for the New Year eve dinner and I found a few other goodies in the expat shop nearby. Bonne année à vous...

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Tags: Cuisine, festival, France

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10 mai 2012

Jing An Temple

A new guest is the opportunity to enjoy Jing An Temple again - its serene wood and gold geometry nestled in the middle in offices and tall towers- and the Indonesian restaurant on the pond in the park opposite. Un(e) nouvel(le) invité(e) est un bon prétexte...

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Tags: Shanghai, Famille, Temple

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8 septembre 2011

Mid Autumn Festival / la fête de mi-automne

Shanghai has become even busier since last week. First, local schools started on the 1st which immediately impacted traffic. Then, everybody has been very busy preparing Mid Autumn Festival which falls this year on the 12th. It is the second big festival...

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Tags: streets, Cuisine, festival

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7 septembre 2011

Capturing Chinese spirit / à la recherche de la pensée chinoise

Suzhou's gardens offer a few insights on Chinese "spirit": I particularly like the "whom shall I sit pavilion" and "think deep and aim high". Les jardins de Suzhou offrent un aperçu sur la pensée chinoise : j'aime particulièrement le pavillon 'avec qui...

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Tags: day trip, Chinglish, Suzhou

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12 septembre 2011

Moon cakes / gâteaux de lune

Food festival this weekend: first we indulged ourselves with the nice French treats Alexandra brought us (thanks!!), and tonight Oliver baked a special "French" version of the moon cakes with apples and bananas instead of red beans and lotus paste. It...

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13 janvier 2012

Spring Festival / Fête de printemps

春节 Chunjie - that's the Chinese word for Chinese New Year: Spring Festival. As Shanghai is emptying itself from all its migrants, here are a few snapshots from Spring Festival delicacies and decorations: Chunjie - c'est le mot qui désigne le Nouvel An...

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Tags: XingfuLu, Cuisine, festival

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3 août 2012

Cangzhou delicacy / gourmandise de Cangzhou

Like a local Chinese, I travelled back with a big bag of food, including zongzi (steamed sticky rice in banana leaves), two chickens, mooncakes and this very sweet specialty, very similar to Arabic Halva: peanut flavoured crunchy candy (left) and mung...

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Tags: Cuisine, Hebei

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16 avril 2012

Spring Day in Jing An Temple/ journée printanière au Temple Jing An

Jing An Temple's name is well deserved: the Quiet Peace Temple is a haven made of wooderful wood beams beautifully carved and bells and chants surrounded by the gigantic advertising posters, car noise and tall modern buildings. It is still being built,...

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Tags: Shanghai, Temple

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24 mars 2012

Song Qing Ling

House of Song Qing Ling, Sun Ya Tsen's wife, in the French Concession Maison de Song Qing Ling, la femme de Sun Ya Tsen, dans la Concession française in the street near by, outdoors dog's hairdresser un peu plus loin, toilettage de chien dans la rue What...

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Tags: Shanghai, streets

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5 mars 2012

March 5 / 5 mars

30th consecutive rainy day in Shanghai- this hadn't happened since 1980. Today is also Lei Feng Day: Lei Feng was a soldier who helped many others and died at the age of 22 while being on duty. He became a legendary icon after Chairman Mao wrote "learn...

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23 février 2012

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The usual brownie type chocolate cake (Veronique's recipe) has turned into a chocolate volcano (I could not find baking chocolate)- but half of it disappeared on my birthday night so I guess it's okay. Le moelleux au chocolat (recette de Véronique) s'est...

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Tags: Famille, Cuisine

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8 mars 2012

Moganshan

We are off for a long weekend in Moganshan, 190 km South West of Shanghai. It is a small village nestled in a bamboo forest, at 500 metres above sea level, in a National Park. It is nice, quiet... and cold! But there is wifi! Nous passons ce long week-end...

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Tags: Moganshan, weekend

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5 janvier 2012

la galette

Les Français sont en ébullition... comment trouver une galette à Shanghai ? La prof de français de Sébastien a un tuyau - ils en ont discuté en classe, vachement important, la galette. Mais c'est Denzil qui en a trouvé une pour le moment. Je pars en chasse...

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Tags: festival, France

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22 octobre 2011

Hairy crab/ crabe poilu

After the moon cake, the next seasonal event (and delicacy) is the hairy crab. The best place to eat them is Yangcheng Lake near Suzhou. It looks like a crab attraction park... thousands of people go to Yangcheng to taste the crabs between October and...

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Tags: Cuisine, day trip

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18 septembre 2011

Zoo

We spent most of yesterday exploring Shanghai wild animal park - activity kndly organised by Shama, the place where we live. Hier nous avons passé une bonne partie de la journée au Parc des animaux sauvages de Shanghai dans le cadre d'une activité proposée...

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Tags: day trip, Chinglish

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4 septembre 2011

shopping / courses

Strong moment of the week-end: I bought prawns at the supermarket. The shop assistant fished them and they literally jumped in the bag -and some out too - and kept moving on the way back home. I didn't try to peal them off before cooking them - I learned...

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Tags: streets, Cuisine

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23 août 2011

Zhujiajiao (1)

Time off today- we drove 50 minutes West of Shanghai and visited Zhujiajiao, one of the numerous "water ancient towns" near Shanghai. Beautiful and peaceful. Vacances aujourd'hui. Nous sommes allés visiter Zhujiajiao, à 50 minutes en voiture de Shanghai...

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Tags: day trip, water towns

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16 août 2012

French Concession / concession française

We left our flat and are now in a hotel for a few days waiting for our visas. Nous avons quitté notre appartement et sommes maintenant à l'hôtel en attendant les visas. old house and Shanghai Library vieille maison et la Bibliothèque de Shanghai local...

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Tags: Shanghai, streets

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25 mai 2012

massage

After 10 months in Shanghai, we - Sebastien and I, accompanied by Ros, who's just arrived this morning- tested the massage... incredibly fantastic! Après 10 mois à Shanghai, nous (Sébastien et moi, accompagnés par Ros tout juste arrivée ce matin) avons...

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Tags: Famille, life

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7 août 2011

Muifa

Typhoon Muifa was supposed to hit Shanghai this Sunday- but it missed us: it is windy and it rains - but nothing deters bikers and passers-by. Life goes on. There is even laundry drying (how?) outside. Le typhon Muifa devait arriver sur Shanghai dimanche...

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Tags: Shanghai, life

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11 août 2011

A trip to the optician/ RDV chez l'ophtalmo

Today's objective was to get Oliver new glasses before school starts. So we took an appointment to the optician. Oliver's remark when we got there: "is this an airport? which terminal do we need to go?" Mission accomplished- the doctor spoke English and...

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Tags: Famille, Chinese

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