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Another year of the That’s Shanghai Food & Drink Awards has come to an end, and this year’s top honors belong to RAW (Restaurant of the Year), The Nest (Bar of the Year) and M1NT (Club of the Year). Meanwhile, Diner, Blackstone Magic Bar and SMASH (RIP) all received recognition in their respective categories for new restaurant, bar and club. Find out who else made the cut this year in our cover story (p42-55), or take a look at the full list of winners and a photo gallery.
And of course, we carried on the tradition of inviting some of the city’s most recognized faces in the Shanghai F&B community to appear on our cover (pictured below). ‘Food fight’ is our theme this year, and it came together perfectly thanks to Kelley Lee (Liquid Laundry, Boxing Cat), Logan Brouse (Logan’s Punch), Kim Melvin (Commune Social), Pier Panozzo (Mito, Xixi Bistro), Elizabeth Schieffelin (Lizzy’s All Natural) and Juan Campos (RAW). All six of them were such good sports about getting down and dirty with having cake, spaghetti and beer thrown in their faces – no easy task, as it turns out. See more images from the cover photo shoot here.
When it comes to Chinese urban legends, Shanghai residents would probably be most familiar the story about the ‘dragon pillar’ of Yan’an Gaojia. But have you also heard about the Hello Kitty murder case in Hong Kong? Or the bus that never made it to its final destination in Beijing’s Fragrant Hills? Our City Feature this month is all about the country’s most famous and chilling folklores. Turn to p10 for more... if you dare.
In her section, Arts Editor Erica Martin speaks to the masterminds behind Chapterhouse Theatre Company ahead of their China tour of a stage production of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Last but not least, my Life & Style feature is about the future of China’s malls. As a country that registered the highest total annual completion of shopping centers in 2016 (5.75 million square meters were completed last year) and in a day and age where e-commerce and online shopping adoption rates are on the rise, mall operators are experiencing a more competitive market landscape than ever before. Find out what leading industry analysts and developers have to say about the future of brick-and-mortar retail on p22.
Until next month,
Dominic Ngai
Editor-in-Chief
Download the October 2017 issue of That's Shanghai here, or view it in your browser with Issuu here (VPN required). To download previous issues, click here.
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