Author: life-china

We’re entering the busy season for pop-up markets with the weather getting nicer and Shanghairen finally coming out of their apartments, and looking for something fun to do on the weekend days. Yes, you can already smell the not-so-fresh air out there in the city and we might get lucky with a blue sky on the odd Saturday or two down the line. The day market: Shanghai’s favorite alternative to sofa-Sherpas-DVDs. But who are these vendors, selling their wares at all these pop-up markets? What do they do? How do they do? In the coming weeks, we...

"Tested" is our column where we check out new goods and services. We see if they're worth you're time and money so you don't have to. *** Didi has finally rolled out an English language interface. Which means the already strained Didi drivers have a new pool of passengers to draw from. It's been rolling out in stages across Shanghai since mid-May or so, but we only just got it. So what's it like? It still can't translate phone calls in real time. So, ever since the English-language version of Uber China got wiped from existence...