Posts Tagged ‘City Weekend Shanghai’
The Best Hairy Crab Roe in Shanghai, or, a Shanghai Dining Editor’s Must Eats List
Back during my tony days interning at City Weekend Shanghai, the benevolent dining and health editor would spit out recommendations with the efficiency of a finely tuned machine. I recently asked her for some recommendations for a friend in Shanghai, and I wished I had had this list when I was there. So in case you ever make your way to the Middle Kingdom's most cosmopolitan city, consult this [...]
See my campy modeling spread; read my silly articles
Hi denizens of the world wide web and faithful readers of my blog, you might be interested to know that I've been hard at work updating the content. I've scanned a bunch of my reviews and articles from City Weekend, including my super-camp "Shanghai seduction" spread, and added some FAQ's to answer all those burning questions. Feel free to ask more questions. I promise to post answers. Unless you [...]
A big bite of Sin
Pick up a copy of the next City Weekend for my "I'll regret this in a few months, but this is still pretty hilarious" appearance in the cover story. The genetically-blessed male specimen on the left is the boyfriend of the editor's friend, who appears as one of my wingwomen (if wingwomen to short Asian girls are always so Amazonian) in the photos. I had no part in writing the story and merely [...]
Fun with dining advertorials
The crazy thing about my job as a City Weekend intern is that I'm often given tasks that my title really shouldn't allow. Like take over a dining advertorial that another freelancer dropped. Thankfully, it was a pretty straightforward job - set up photo shoots with two chefs and their signature dishes through their PR people, make sure the photos were uniform and attractive, then write the [...]
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