THE FESTIVE FUN ISSUE
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THE FESTIVE FUN ISSUE
Advertising Hotline 400 820 84287 October/November 2013 THE FESTIVE FUN ISSUE Plus thanksgiving: bird is the word traveling on the trans-mongolian farms: taking kids to their food source 30 Cover story CONTENTS Happy Halloween!!! 4 What's On 6 Urban Blurbs learning 8 The Best Future Money Can Buy 10 Mind Matters: The Truth about Boys and Girls 11 Why Play Time Is Time Well Spent 12 Awkward Kid Pics: Thought yours were bad? 13 Urban Fridge life & culture 14 Our Favorite Things: The Tunkey Family 16 Day Trip: Chongming Island’s Organic Farms 20 Be a Tourist: Shanghai's New Ice Rink 22 Travel: A Ride on the Trans-Mongolian Railway 26 Shopping: Stylish Thanksgiving Decor 28 Craft: Pasta Skeleton 29 On the Street: Sunny Shanghai cover story 30 Celebrate Halloween Shanghai Style 31 Get Your Spook On! Costume Shopping Guide 32 Party On! Throw Your Own Party 33 Eerie Events Around Town 34 Halloween Costume Inspiration 35 Make a Mummy Costume food & fun 14 LIFE & CULTURE Families share their Shanghai favorites 36 Amelia's Marketplace: Pumpkin Pie 38 French Dining in Jing'an 40 Eating Well: The Piquant Pomelo 41 Trick Your Treats: Halloween Cupcakes 42 Thanksgiving Offerings for 2013 44 Favorite Feasts of 2012 wellbeing 46 TCM and Children 47 Say Boo to the Flu! events 48 Urban Scenes 49 Events 51 Listings back page 52 Tiger Father: Halloween Hang Ups 16 LIFE & CULTURE A nanny state 22 LIFE & CULTURE All aboard... 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We’ve put together this festive fun issue to create those moments that childhood memories are made of. If you’re not yet in the Halloween spirit, our pages are filled with inspiration. From Shanghai expat Audrey Brosse’s costume designs for TRALA*LA featured on our cover, to outrageously fun costumes from creative parents who most likely have too much time on their hands (p30). We’ll get your creative juices flowing with a Halloween craft (p28), cupcakes (p41) and tips for throwing your own party (p32). And if all the hoopla over Halloween has you feeling baffled at this mysterious holiday, you must read Tiger Father’s amusing take on it all (p56). After Halloween, you’ll have a month to whet your appetite for Thanksgiving gluttony on November 28. Despite the holiday’s American roots, Shanghai is home to feasts all over town both upscale and down-home. Gather your friends together from around the world to share in the tradition and give thanks to the restaurant saving you the trouble of roasting a turkey. Check out our complete list of list of restaurants for the big day (p42). In our lead story, Beijing-based writer Karoline Kan highlights the growing trend of Chinese going to great lengths to give their kids an international education (p8). And Monica Liau and Tongfei Zhang take us a world away from the city bustle to the organic farms of Chongming Island (p16). Be sure not to miss our new regular features from readers like you. Our Favorite Things (p14) goes inside the Shanghai life of the Tunkey family. And the Taugbol-Nilsen family share some amazing photos and anecdotes from their journey on Trans-Mongolian Railway in our Travel Q&A (p22). If you would like to have your family’s favorite things around town or your travels featured in our next issue, be sure to e-mail us at urbanfamily@urbanatomy. com. On a final note, in the spirit of fond childhood Halloween memories, there’s nothing better than a homemade Hershey’s Kiss costume by the world’s craftiest mom. That’s me below, by the way, rockin’ what I thought was the coolest costume ever. Don’t you agree? A happy Halloween and Thanksgiving to all of you from Urban Family. Jodi Hwang Chief Editor Cover photo credit: Liva Koziola Pictured on the cover, back row: Eva Bercovici, Elise Pouget, Maxence Mallet, Juliette Berranger, Eve Arnoux, Line Arnoux; front row: Clara Pouget, Maxime Berranger Get Connected Stay up to date with the latest Urban Family happenings! www.urban-family.com 3 what's on What’s On in October/November Last Chance to see Art of the Brick Recognized by CNN as one of 2011’s top exhibitions, the Art of the Brick showcases New York-based artist Nathan Sawaya’s collection of largescale Lego sculptures composed of more than 400,000 pieces. Be inspired to build before it’s too late. The exhibition closes October 27. // RMB 50.11am-9pm (weekdays) 11am-10pm (weekends and holidays). Super Brand Mall, 9/F 168 Lujiazui Xi Lu, by Lujiazui Huan Lu 陆家 嘴西路168号9楼, 近陆家嘴环路 (6440 0379, 6887 7888) Om Baby Yoga hosted by Yoga Garden Visit an organic farm It may not be the pumpkin patch you’re looking for this fall, but a visit to Chongming Island will show the kids farm fresh foods up close. Eat a pomelo Spend some quality and peaceful time with your little ones. A new eight-week session begins Oct 14. A 45-minute mom and baby class is held Monday mornings at 11am, and the mom and toddler class in the afternoons at 4pm. Email sarah@ yogagarden for more information. //Yoga Garden, 3/F 100 Fuxing Xi Lu by Yongfu Lu, 复兴路100号近武康路 (158 2187 3325, www.yogagarden.com) Make a family play date … then save the peel to make a silly helmet. Read all about this sweet fruit’s benefits in our Eating Well column by registered dietician Margaret Keefe. Make sweet music In Xuhui Riverside Park - it’s the top choice of this month’s Urban Feature Family. 4 www.urban-family.com Calling all babies eight months and younger, Music Together Puxi is adding a special class just for the younger set. Give your baby the benefits of early exposure to music and movement. A new eight-week semester begins October 15 at 10.30am, Lakeville Regency Clubhouse. E-mail julie@musictogetherpuxi for a free trial class. Book fair! Have some foodie fun Check out the inaugural China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair at the ShanghaiMart Exhibition Center on November 9. Publishers from around the world will be in town for the first ever book fair for children in Asia. Visit www.ccbookfair.com/en/ to preregister. Adventure of a lifetime Spend some time in the kitchen with the kids. Make a pumpkin pie with a recipe from Amelia’s Marketplace in this issue. Be inspired for your next holiday trip with one family’s 8,000 km trek on the Trans-Mongolian Railway. See this issue’s travel feature. Bollywood babies Celebrate Thanksgiving Try a Bollywood dance class. Make ‘Ur Move Dance Academy offers classes to promote Indian art and culture through dance for ages four to adult. Classes are held at the Green Valley Villas clubhouse. For more information contact Geethaamadhu, 150 2642 6007. Book now for a table at one of many Shanghai restaurants offering a tasty and festive holiday feast. www.urban-family.com 5 Urban blurbs Hold the Oil and Salt Time to Strap In the Kids A draft of a new Juvenile Protection Law by Shanghai authorities will require children under the age of four riding in a car to be sitting in a child-safety seat. Currently, less than 1 percent of Chinese parents have installed child-safety seats in their cars, according to the China Toy and Juvenile Products Association. Dr. Pan Shuming, who led the research for the legislation, hopes that Shanghai’s child-safety seat mandate will lead the way for all of China to implement the requirement. Beginning in October, Shanghai’s middle and primary schools are changing their menus to combat growing waistlines among students, especially in light of a recent report in which China has replaced the United States as number one in cases of diabetes. Nutrition experts from Xinhua Hospital and Shanghai Institute for Pediatric Research have created 33 sets of healthy lunch recipes specifically for each of the student age groups. They’ve also provided guidelines for healthier cooking methods that include more steamed foods instead of fried, as well as reducing the amount of salt. Panda Cuteness Fourteen tiny panda cubs enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame at China’s Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base in late September. The artificially-bred cubs were all born between July and September. The youngest, Ya Yi, is only 1.5 pounds, while the oldest, Meng Meng, weighs about 9 pounds. More than 18,500 children below 14 years of age die in traffic accidents in China every year. Children riding in private cars account for 75 percent of those accidents. The proposed law will also require children under the age of 12 to sit in the back seat. The new safety measures are expected to bring down the casualty rate by 70 percent. Ducks, Not Pigs Floating in Huangpu Pandas often have difficulty breeding in captivity because female pandas’ mating season lasts only 36 hours every year. Zoos around the world have tried unsuccessfully for years to birth a panda cub of their own. Of the 20 cubs born at the Chengdu Panda Base this year, 17 have survived so far. Pandas are an endangered species with less than 2,000 living in the wild today. The Chengdu Panda Base opened in 1987 with six endangered pandas. Since then, the nearly 500-acre reserve has bred more than 120 giant pandas. RMB500 The amount you will be fined for eating or drinking on the Shanghai Metro, if proposed legislation is passed at the end of the year. The eating and drinking bans were added into a draft of Metro regulations that would also include fines for smoking, urinating and begging on trains. If the regulations take effect, make sure the kids are well fed before your Metro ride, otherwise that pack of crackers your child is snacking on may just cost you. On a positive note, the urination ban might just prevent situations like the one pictured. 6 www.urban-family.com In early October, more than 10,000 plastic ducks were released into Shanghai’s Huangpu River for a rubber duck race. Participants paid an entry fee to adopt a duck; the first three ducks to finish earned their owners prize amounts of RMB100,000, 50,000 and 10,000, respectively. The Super Brand Mall organized the event to support the Special Olympics, raising over RMB500,000 for the cause. Home Sweet Home Pulse of the city. Lily Hewgill, a premature baby born in Shanghai during a New Zealand couple’s stop in Shanghai on their return from a trip to Europe this summer, is finally home. Lily spent 50 days in the NICU at Shanghai Children’s Medical Center before a 15-hour medevac to Auckland. She spent another 26 days in the Auckland NICU before her homecoming on October 6. Keep Your Cool Follow us on WeChat to receive a weekly message full of deals, upcoming events, news, free online movies and more. Subscribe through the post office: code 4-845 邮局订阅代码 4-845 Contact: 021-2213 9018 *2806 subscription@urbanatomy.com Parents, you may want to take a deep breath and resist the urge to yell the next time your child misbehaves. A new joint study from researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Michigan found that yelling at adolescent children has the same damaging effect as – and may be even worse than hitting – increasing the child’s risk of depression and aggressive behavior. The study posted on Child Development Journal’s website shows that even a positive family relationship won’t reduce the negative effects of parents’ yelling, cursing or insulting their teens. Researchers and child development experts believe that taking away privileges, such as screen time or time with friends is more effective discipline than shouting. www.urban-family.com 7 Learning The Best Future Money Can Buy How Rich Parents Groom Success from the Cradle By Karoline Kan them in international schools from an early age. Fan Ruizhi is one example. Fan, 19, arrived in Beijing from Urumuqi, Xinjiang, with poor English. His father used some guanxi to enroll Fan in the Pakistan Embassy College Beijing, where almost all the other students are embassy kids. As the only Chinese, he is finding assimilation hard. “It is not only about the language, but thinking differently,” Fan explains. His father, who runs a successful tile business, once told him, “We will keep supporting you until the day you are tired of studying.” M ost young girls dream of princes and palaces, but there’s one who doesn’t have to: the daughter of an anonymous Chinese mother who, an executive at Sotheby’s International Realty revealed in March, bought a USD6.5 million apartment at the One57 luxury skyscraper in Manhattan, solely for the use of her little princess. 8 www.urban-family.com Indeed, Fan’s parents have more plans than time in which “[She] was going to go to CoBut it was not so long ago that to change them, because betlumbia, or NYU or maybe Har- foreign study was the excluter ideas keep coming to mind. vard and so she needed to be sive preserve of the very talFan was originally sent to a in the center,” the executive ented or connected. According private boarding school, but told CCTV-13. “So I said: ‘Oh, to Wang Huiyao, Deputy Direc- was removed after he proved how old is your daughter?’ and tor of the Western Returned unable to read pinyin by she said: ‘Well, she’s two.’ And I Scholars Association, during fourth grade. Transferred to a was just shocked.” the 1980s and 90s, roughly respected public school in Fu10,000 students a year rejian, Fan was brought back afWhile many Chinese web users ceived further training in deter his family worried about focused on the mystery moth- veloped countries, with many the lack of parental oversight. er’s identity and whether she relying on state scholarships. The international school came was the wife of a so-called ‘na- The number of self-funded next. ked official,’ the staggering instudents has since surged, vestment highlight a surging with that percentage rising But despite being older than trend among Chinese parents, from 74 to 92.67 percent behis new classmates, and with not just to educate their chiltween 2000 and 2011. all his friends now attending dren abroad, but to provide university, Fan is happy – for them with the best alternative But the so-called ‘degree deone reason. “The gaokao,” he advantages money can buy. preciation’ of such numbers shrugs. “I can get a foreign dehas pushed wealthier parents gree immediately, without takAccording to a 2012 report on to find even more effective ing all those boring and anChinese studying abroad by ways to build their children’s noying exams like most other the Center for China and Glofutures; getting a Western deChinese students.” balization and the Chinese gree is just part of the process. Academy of Social Sciences, Escaping the tyranny of the China is now the world’s largFirstly, there is the need to acgaokao – the route to higher est source of foreign students, climatize young fu'erdai (seceducation described as “thouwith 157,558 studying in the US ond-generation rich) to forsands trying to cross a single alone in 2011. eign cultures by enrolling wooden bridge” – is a trend, according to Beijing Business Today. 2013 marked the seventh year of continuous decline in students taking the test, with just 72,700 examinees – down from 110,300 in 2006. According to China’s Education Department, 6.99 million students will graduate from universities and colleges this summer, making 2013 the toughest year yet. The employment figures are hardly encouraging; in April, 29 percent of graduates in Shanghai were employed and 28 percent in Beijing. “Chinese parents are thinking that, for their child to be international citizens, the first step is to have a Western education,” says Peter M. Sol, headmaster of the Beijing Collegiate Academy (BCA). “The best way to do well in a Western university is to attend an international school [for preparation] and adopt a Western curriculum… the earlier they start, the easier they adapt.” Most international schools require students to have a foreign passport but there are ways round this. As long as bilingual schools offer all three curricula required by the Chinese Education Department, they can enroll a percentage of Chinese. However the barrier of cost is high, meaning this kind of education is elite – exactly what the Chinese parents want. In Beijing, average fees range from RMB150,000 to 200,000 per year. Besides the regular curricula, these schools offer activities and classes designed to better mold the perfectly accomplished ladies and gentlemen of the future. Piano classes in one international school cost RMB600 per hour, for example, with no more than two students attending at the same time. There are around 50 such schools in Beijing right now, and the number is growing. “When I first started work in this industry, there was no bilingual school openly accepting students with Chinese nationality,” says Anni Li, admissions and marketing manager at BCA. But perhaps the biggest growth has been among kin- In this context, Fan’s parents’ plan seems reasonable. “Even if I do well and go to Tsinghua or Peking University, so what?” he asks. “With all the competition from students graduating from Western countries, [Chinese graduates] don’t have an advantage. So I think our choice is right.” And there’s another dilemma. For a Beijing student with a ga200000 The number of Chinese students studying in the US okao score of less than 500, it is practically impossible to be accepted into a good university in China. But foreign faculties such as the University of Melbourne (No. 28 globally, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings) and Australian National University (No. 37) – which rank higher than Tsinghua (No. 52) and Peking University (No. 46) – are greeting overseas students with open arms. Finances permitting, with a choice of spending less time studying to get a higherdergartens. better. To adapt him to an Eng- ranked degree, who would not lish-speaking environment, choose to do so? Outside Palm Springs, a hous- she has placed her son in a ing complex opposite Beijing's language-immersion program. In his rented apartment near Chaoyang Park guarded by a “My son will be sent abroad for the east Third Ring Road in Begigantic stone griffin, interna- study in the future, if my fiijing, Fan is hosting some tional kindergarten Eton Kids nancial situation permits,” Cui friends from Xinjiang and uses “Western methodology” explains. teidying the uniform and tie to teach its 170 children. he has to wear tomorrow. “I Founded in 2002, Eton Kids An increasing requirement for don’t think I will change and now has more than 10 branch- English-speaking ability, the become different from my old es in Beijing, with around pursuit of global reach, the po- friends. I’m not that kind of 2,000 students. Although tential to enhance guanxi with person." smiles Fan. However, technically an international other wealthy parents and esthey are already concerned kindergarten, Chinese children cape the harsh realities of the about different things – while account for about 130 of the gaokao are all good reasons his friends talk about how an170 students at Palm Springs. why Chinese families are keen noying the ideological and poon Western education. But the litical classes are at university, Cui Yanni, whose three-yearmain issue is that the Chinese Fan is more worried about his old son is studying there, job market is becoming far A-level exams. “What is A-levagrees that, as far as grooming more competitive. el?” asks one of his friends. is concerned, the earlier the ‘China is now the world’s largest source of foreign students’ www.urban-family.com 9 learning Mind Matters The Truth about Boys and Girls By Matt Kuykendall conflicts too. • Boys need to talk about sex Communicating effectively is key In short, boys are like girls. University of Chicago neuroscientist Lise Eliot corroborates this. In her book, Pink Brain, Blue Brain she states, “What I found, after an exhaustive search, was surprisingly little solid evidence of sex differences in children’s brains.” “ Boys are different.” There is no other statement that was made to me as frequently or as assertively as this one while my wife was pregnant with our second child — a boy. This was said to me in response to my daughter speaking early, walking late, sitting still, eating her vegetables, not sharing and preferring vanilla to chocolate ice cream. “How are they different?” I’d reply. The answer would inevitably be, “Oh you know, they just are!” Rosalind Wiseman, author of the bestselling book on adolescent girls, Queen Bees and Wannabes, thinks boys are different too. Not comfortable resting on her laurels when the book became the basis of the hit comedy film Mean Girls, she set off to write the male equivalent. In Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Your Son Cope with 10 www.urban-family.com What I found, after an exhaustive search, was surprisingly little solid evidence of sex differences in children’s brains Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World, Wiseman utilized naturalistic observation as well as interviews with 160 boys aged preteen to 20 on life growing up male. This was in order to illustrate for the reader exactly how boys are different via a semischolarly portrait of male life in America. Here is the shocking thing: boys aren’t that different. The reason we as parents and we as a society are failing both our young men and young women is that we act like boys and girls are two different species. We pretend the socially constructed gender roles are ge- netically ordained. We highlight everything that’s different about them without acknowledging and acting on everything that’s the same. Wiseman herself points this out when she implores parents to provide boys with, “A language for talking about their worries and experiences, like we do with girls.” She also makes the following major points in her book: • Boys only act like they don’t care about friends, family or school — they really do • The idea that boys are less emotionally complicated is a myth • Boys (not just girls) have social Of course there are small differences in the sexes, just as there are small differences between you and me. However these are insignificant when taken within the context of life. As parents, you want to raise a child who is independent and self-confident — a leader not a follower. You want your child to have a healthy sense of family, self, duty and honor regardless of their sex. The secret to raising well-adjusted and successful boys is the same to raising well-adjusted and successful girls. Speak to your children often, even when it’s hard — especially when it’s hard. Talk to them about sex and pornography. When you hear your son or daughter using disrespectful language, call them on it. When you witness your son or daughter bullying or being a victim of bullying, talk to them about it. Meanness, abuse and manipulation know no sexual bounds. Nor does leadership, mathematical aptitude, bravery and grit. As I plowed through article after article, psychologist after psychologist, the piece I set out to write quickly evaporated before my eyes. I thought I was going to help the parents of Shanghai’s young men better serve their boys. Instead, I was reminded of the scientific fact that boys and girls are more the same than they are different. Educational Entertainment Why Play Time Is Time Well Spent By Matt Kuykendall I t’s tempting to think, “Whew! Finally, something that’s massively beneficial to my child that I don’t have to worry about because it happens naturally!” Unfortunately, this isn’t necessarily the case. Research has shown most children in the developed world today are not playing nearly as much as previous generations. This sad fact is what motivated local expat Nicole Sims to found the play-based preschool, Zooligans, “After several years working in the international setting within Shanghai, I felt as if something was missing within many areas of the early years. Communication, flexibility and what I feel is appropriate learning through play was difficult to find.” Zooligans has proven to be exactly what many members of the Shanghai expat community were missing, as there are now branches in both Hongqiao and Minhang. Play-based preschools like Zooligans are not light on academics. The great irony is that free play is absolutely and scientifically the greatest intellectual gift you can give your children. Research supports the value of play. Consider this 1992 longitudinal study in Germany of 50 play-based kindergartens and 50 academic kindergartens. By age ten, the children who had played more in kindergarten excelled over the academic-focused kindergarteners in reading, mathematics, social and emotional adjustment, creativity, intelligence, oral expression and industry. Finland, for example, routinely finishes in the top three countries around the world in the Program for International Student Children who play excel in reading, mathematics, social and emotional adjustment, creativity, intelligence, oral expression and industry Assessment (PISA), a test of literacy, math and science skills, despite not teaching reading until the age of seven. children play more? The Alliance for Childhood, an American Psychological organization suggests: Play is also an important part of language development, according to University of Minnesota educational psychologist, Anthony Pelligrini, who says, “Children use more sophisticated language when playing with other children.” Other researchers have found that simple play primes the mind to be ready for more explicit language instruction. 1. Reduce or eliminate screen time. Be prepared to counter the cries of boredom with suggestions for make believe play and simple play toys. So what can you do to help your 2. Curtail time spent in adult-organized activities. Children need time for self initiated play. Soccer practice, although active, is not play. 3. Choose simple toys. A good toy is 10 percent toy and 90 percent child. 4. Encourage outdoor adventures. 5. Bring back the art of real work. Believe it or not, adult activity such as cooking, cleaning, washing, actually inspires children to play. Encouraging kids to play sounds simple, but in reality it’s often easier to give your child an iPad than to engage their imagination with a cardboard box. Filling a child’s schedule with soccer and piano practice may help keep a routine and keep a child entertained, but leaves little time for free play. It takes work to engage your child in productive play. But like all things that necessitate hard work and are filled with intrinsic good, the payoff is well worth the effort. // Matt Kuykendall teaches AP Psychology at the Shanghai American School Puxi campus and is the proud father of Talia, 3, and Kieran, 1. www.urban-family.com 11 learning Awkward Kid Pics What Were Their Parents Thinking... T he Awkward Family Photo phenomenon comes to China. Chinese netizens have taken to posting some ridiculously silly shots from their 80s childhood on Sina Weibo. It appears Mainlanders are not exempt from parents with questionable judgment, especially when it comes to embarrassing snaps of their kids. 12 www.urban-family.com Masterpieces by the little Picassos of Shanghai. Lien Zi-Ting, SSIS Xuhui Campus Bejamin Jarrett, CCIS Jeni Lin, SCIS , CCIS William Shih Anita Liang, SCIS CCIS Emma Haley, Nicole Mo ntague, SC IS Kiana Manoo, CCIS Isabella Cuda, SCIS Kho Michelle Ariella, SSIS Minhang Campus Emma Huang, SCIS Jeany Byun, SCIS Chin Xin Ni, SSIS XuHui Campus Kim Kim, SCIS Kim Sihyung Luna, SSIS Minhang Campus www.urban-family.com 13 Life & Culture Our Favorite Things Hu Yihuai The Tunkey Family A merican architects Michael Tunkey and Elaine Chow left the bitter cold and snow of Boston, seven years ago, when Tunkey opened CannonDesign’s Shanghai office. Together with their daughters, 5-year-old Mila and 2-year-old Serene, they make the most of the city from their home in their favorite area of Shanghai, the former French Concession. Here are some family favorites. 14 www.urban-family.com Favorite Restaurant Jishi/Old Jesse is our favorite for classic Shanghainese dishes. Although hard to get a table, the location is great since it’s so close to our apartment. Mike loves the fish head served covered in scallions, the girls love the hongshaorou and shrimp and we all love the scallion noodles. // 41 Tianping Lu, by Huaihai Xi Lu 天 平路41号, 近淮海西路 (6282 9260) Favorite brunch spot Baker & Spice. Especially when the girls were younger and waking up very early, a weekend ritual was taking a stroller walk for chocolate croissants with daddy and sitting at the big table, drawing a while, then going to a nearby apartment compound to play on the swings. Mommy stayed home for a morning nap! Favorite place to play outdoors // 24/F, 318 Fuzhou Lu, by Shandong Zhong Lu 福州路318号 24楼, 近山东中路 (6391 2811) // Xuhui Riverside Public Open Space, Dongan Lu, by Longteng Dadao 东安路, 近龙腾大道 Xuhui Riverside Park because it feels both urban and wild at the same time. There are reclaimed train tracks, climbing // 1/F, 195 Anfu Lu, by Wulumuqi Lu 安 walls, skate/bike parks and just 福路195号1楼, 近乌鲁木齐路 (5404 2733) a lot of shady space for setting up a picnic with views of the Favorite date night water. There is also an old train M1nt, during restaurant week. that looks like it was built in The black cod is a really solid the 20s but was actually built dish, the lighting is low, and in the 80s, good place for an the view is good. Most imporimpromptu lecture to the kids tantly, it’s NOT kid-friendly (at on how different China was least not for our kids!). way back in the 90s. 五原辂 (6437 7262). For bazaars see our events listings p49 Favorite place to play indoors Active Kidz gymnastics. It’s reasonably priced; there are lots of friends to play with and kids LOVE trampolines and jumping from high places. // www.activekidz.org Favorite weekend trip Naked Stables in Moganshan for a relaxing break from the city with friends. The kids love the horses, with nearby painting at the kidsclub and walking in the bamboo forest. // www.nakedretreats.cn Favorite tourist spot Urban Planning Museum for the gigantic model of the city that gives a great overview, while providing a fun game of finding buildings you can recognize. Well, we are architecture geeks, what did you expect? // 100 Renmin Dadao, by Xizang Lu 上海城市规划展示馆, 人民大 道100号, 近西藏路 (6318 4477) Favorite places to shop Avocado Lady. Everything you need to make good burritos; tortillas, beans, cheese, sour cream, tomatoes, peppers, and – of course – avocados. And the various community bazaars around town, where it’s possible to buy locally designed items like organic clothing for children from Wobabybasics. // Avocado Lady, 274 Wulumuqi Lu, by Wuyuan Lu 乌鲁木齐路274号, 近 Favorite place for travel Thailand with friends. We went there with a group of friends, all with kids of roughly the same age. It was just easy and fun, we could share responsibility for the kids while doing activities… and we’d be happy to drink green curry for breakfast. Favorite weekend activities Jitterbugs. It’s easy and very well catered to what little kids like – bubbles and scarves. There’s an old proverb that says, “If you can talk you can sing, if you can walk you can dance.” This was definitely the case with the kids at Jitterbugs. They might barely be standing, but they are ready to dance. We also like craft time at home; the latest project is building dollhouses from cardboard cereal boxes. It’s nice to also do family things that could be done anywhere else. // www.jitterbugsinshanghai.com Best Shanghai discovery Getting bicycles and riding around! They provide a great sense of freedom. When first moving here, I never would have considered biking in the city traffic, but getting around by bike has been a lot of fun and very convenient. Internal Medicine Gynecology Dermatology Acupuncture Infertility Pediatrics Osteopathy Podiatry Physiotherapy Chiropractics Herbal Medicine Psychology Have you ever considered Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat your symptoms naturally? TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (TCM) Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including herbal medicine and acupuncture and Tuina-massage, is an ancient medical system which has been proven successful in curing patients for thousands of years. TCM can be applied to treat various conditions, such as respiratory tract and digestive disorders, headaches and migraines and allergies. Body & Soul – Medical Clinics provide the best medical care for their patients by combining Eastern and Western Medicine in 4 locations in Shanghai. The model of Shanghai at the Urban Planning Museum For more information, please visit the classified section of this magazine or go to www.tcm-shanghai.com www.urban-family.com 15 Life & Culture Your kids will find a new type of nanny at Mahota 16 www.urban-family.com Farther Afield Take the Kids to their Food Source this Autumn By Monica Liau and Tongfei Zhang, photos by Nicky Almasy S hanghai may be one of the largest urban landscapes in the world, but it is also home to more than 330,000 hectares of farmland and boasts one of the highest yields per unit of crops in the country due to loamy soils and a sub-tropical climate. These crisp autumn months are a boon growing time, too. Rampant pests and threats of mold are the bane of the summer farmer’s existence, so the cool weather comes as a relief. It’s also a great time to bundle up your kids and cart them out to the countryside for a tasty tutorial on where the contents of their dinner plate come from. within city borders, those that are cherry red in November are ultimately raised either hydroponically and/or pumped full of fertilizers and CO2 gasses, leaving nothing behind but a mushy texture and ghostly, wan flavor. You might even get to sneak in a lesson about the joys of eating seasonally. While you could easily buy tomatoes from far-off lands or one of the other big farms nestled The scientific jury is out on whether seasonal, organic fruits and vegetables actually contain more nutrients than their mass-produced cousins, but they certainly taste better – and come with fewer icky pesticide concerns. Luckily for us, there is a growing group of eco-conscious agricultural establishments around town trying to entice shoppers into seasonal produce sans pesticides and other chemicals – and some of them are interested in showing city slickers exactly how they produce the fruits of their labor. A trip to the farm brings you to your food source www.urban-family.com 17 Life & Culture What’s in your basket? Mahota Farms For an adventurous fullday excursion, Mahota Farms – a three-year-old sustainable farm on Chongming Island – is open to visitors all year. It also has by far the most varied and in-depth outdoor program. For a flat fee (RMB280/adult, RMB140/child under 1.3 meters) you get a day of activities that includes a tour of the farm and the chance to plant and pick vegetables, as well as feeding the animals, fishing, cycling, outdoor painting and eating Mahota hotpot for lunch. You also get a gift bag and fresh veggies. Produce you might carry back in your tote includes eggplants, radishes, pumpkins and edamame. If you want a little more time away from the crazy Shanghai streets, they also offer an overnight retreat, courtesy of their high-end Mongolian yurts. In the evening, you’ll get an outdoor roast, access to karaoke and ping pong plus a complimentary breakfast. RMB800/ two people, RMB140/child under 130 cm, children under 3 stay free. Call 3966 6041 or visit www.themahota.com for more details. // To simply buy veggies (and meat) without the travel time, visit their store at Room1002, City Point & M-Town, 666 Huaihai Xi Lu, by Kaixuan Lu 淮海西路666号中山万博国际中心, 近凯旋路(5489 1175) Biofarm For a brisk jaunt to the outskirts of Shanghai, Biofarm – 40 minutes away from the city center – is probably your closest bet. Located in Songjiang, they offer an open house every weekend where you can shop for your food at the source. Let the kids run free as they learn how to pick their own potatoes, sweet potatoes, lettuces and figs. They also offer private tours and group tours (if a bunch of families would like to go together). Cost including lunch is RMB120/person, RMB80/children 2-8 years old. Visit www.biofarm. cn or email jane@biofarmdirect.com for more information. // Biofarm also offers home delivery baskets priced at RMB99, RMB129 and RMB209 sent to your home once a week. Qingpu Strawberries Interested in a fruitier adventure? Oddly enough, strawberry season at the Qingpu Zhaotun Strawberry Park starts a little bit later in the season – mid-December – so put that in your calendar. Visit their greenhouses and they’ll let you pick as many little red berries as you’d like. Cost ranges from RMB10-20/jin depending on market prices. There aren’t many restaurants in the area, so we’d suggest a picnic lunch. Get there: Take a bus from Danshui Lu by the Huangpi Nan Lu Metro station with the destination marked Zhaotun 赵屯, RMB9/each way. Two buses leave per day at 8am and 9am. // Qingpu Zhaotun Strawberry Park, Zhaotun Village, 11 Luopu Lu, by Laobaishi Lu 青 浦区赵屯镇古浦罗浦路 11号, 近老百石路 (139 1602 5040 or 5921 7231) 18 www.urban-family.com Life & Culture Former Olympic champion Yang Yang with a young fan 20 www.urban-family.com The Ice Queen The Olympic Champ in Charge By Lauren Hogan G rowing up in the northern town of Jiamusi in Heilongjiang Province, Yang Yang would pass an outdoor ice rink every day on her way to school. When she was eight, her PE coach selected her and 39 other schoolmates to attend a two-week training camp on the ice. But 14 days proved not enough for this budding queen of cool, and so her new routine began: 5am skate, 7am school, 3.30pm skate, dinner, homework, sleep and repeat… “For 23 years!” she laughs. It was that dedication that carried the short track speed skater on to become China’s first-ever Winter Olympics gold medalist in Salt Lake City in 2002, where she became a two-time Olympic champ, winning in both the 500 and 1,000 meters. She has also won the most overall world championships for her country – a total of 56, including 32 golds. After her first big win, she retired to go back to school. But two years later, her country needed her. The younger generation couldn’t achieve the qualifying time to compete in Turin. With two years left to prepare, she laced up her skates, returning to win bronze. “My last game, I knew it was my last one. I knew I had done enough.” the same name, Yang Yang (S), and stands for August, her birth month – looked to follow another dream: open a skate school. But even this small idea has grown into something larger, and she has ended up managing Shanghai’s first Olympicsize rink (see below), hoping future generations can carve their dreams into realities too. After her second retirement, Yang Yang (A)– the (A) is to distinguish her from a second speed skater of // Read our full interview with Yang Yang at www.thatsmags.com Rink of Dreams Sports Complex Steps up Game By Lauren Hogan S hanghai is top dog when it comes to building the biggest and best, but when it comes to beams and bolts for local sport’s infrastructure, the city tends to come up short. Could the arrival of the shiny Sanlin Sports Center – 68,5000 square meters containing a seven-story multi-functional gym, swimming pool, outdoor climbing wall, six athletic fields and more – mean the times are a’changin’? While beautiful blankets of green and cleaner pool facilities conjure up Olympic podium fist pumps of triumph – if not merely for the fact that the facilities are much closer than most expat-frequented fields – what’s really been turning heads is the complex’s Feiyang Skating Center. Not one, but two ice skating rinks are located here. The first, a 53-by23-meter rink on the ground floor, weekdays, RMB60/person on weekends for two-and-a-half hours, with no extra cost for skate rental), but the aims of the rink runners is much loftier than giving people an affordable place to test out the ice. The team are working to implement the Canadian-inspired learn-to-skate program which will launch, along with a city-wide figure skating program, plus select youth hockey programs. Curling is also in the works. is for leisure purposes, while on the second level lies an Olympic-sized ice playground with 5,000 seats and a Jumbotron. Run by China’s first Winter Olympics gold medalist Yang Yang (see above) it’s the first privately managed sports complex able to focus on grassroots sports development for hockey, figure skating and speed skating. Skating is available to the public daily (currently RMB40/person on As the schemes continue to develop, the targeted number of future skaters will expand to reach local and international schools and eventually migrant schools as well. Enjoying support from the mayor, educational institutions and the local community, we hope this is just the push Shanghai needs to turn leftover lots into athletic oases. // 471 Qihe Lu, by Liuhe Lu 齐河 路201号, 近浏河路 (6013 6258, currently only Chinese) www.urban-family.com 21 Life & Culture All Aboard Take a Ride on the Trans-Mongolian Railway N orwegians Tormod Nilsen, Siri Taugbol and their 2-year-old son Georg are true adventurers, traveling home for the summer by train all the way from Shanghai to Moscow. We asked Siri to tell us all about her family’s unconventional homeward journey. Where did you go? We chose to do the Trans-Mongolian Railway from Beijing to Moscow traveling home for our summer holiday in Norway. We also decided to take the train from Shanghai to Beijing to avoid any delayed flights, which can be a huge problem in China in the summer. In total we spent more than 8,000 km on trains. We spent one night in Beijing and one night in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator. When did you go and for how long? 22 www.urban-family.com We left China mid-July, right after the Naadam Festival in Mongolia. If we had the opportunity we would have gone to Mongolia to experience this festival and see more of the steppes outside the capital. The train takes five and a half days. We spent an extra day as we stayed one night in Ulan Bator. To be able to do more stops in Russia, you have to buy single train tickets between each stop. We spent two nights in Moscow, which was a fantastic end to the adventurous journey. How was the train accommodation? We booked first class all the way. What the travel agent didn’t tell us was that the train leaving the next day after our stopover in Ulan Bator was a local Russian train to Moscow. Russian first class and Chinese first class are very different. The true Trans-Mongolian railway has Chinese trains leaving only three times a week. We weren’t aware of this and were surprised by the standards on the Russian train. In our private cabin we had two benches How much did the train tickets cost? Did you use a travel agent? The train from Beijing to Moscow cost approximately RMB5,000 per adult. Child fare is reduced, or even free, The Chinese train had, in addi- depending on how many tion to this, more space and berths are in the room. We seating opposite the bunk used China Base Travel and beds, air-conditioning, a fan, they organized tickets, transcharging capabilities and a portation in Beijing and Ulan small bathroom to share with Bator and also invitation letthe next-door cabin that inters that you need to get the cluded a shower. The cabin was Mongolian and Russian visas. quite roomy and more appealing. What did you do on the train and at your stops? that we used as beds during the night and a small table in front of the window. We also had a little storage room on top of the hallway, as well as under the beds. Being on a train ride like this is very relaxing. We enjoyed the view: the Gobi desert, the sunsets, especially through the rugged landscapes of Mongolia, which was also the most picturesque country. We played soccer in the hall, slept a lot, read books and our twoyear-old watched movies on the iPad or computer when he was bored. The stopover in Ulan Bator was definitely worth it. We toured the city center, enjoyed the very different society with a definite masculine touch, saw a dinosaur skeleton dug up from the Gobi desert and bought some cashmere, as Mongolia is one of the true sources of cashmere. On the train, the visits to the restaurant car are some of the day’s highlights. They change the car depending on the country you are in. The Mongolian car was very nicely decorated with woodcarvings. The food changes from Chinese to Mongolian to Russian, giving you variety throughout the trip. It was no gourmet experience, but it was okay. www.urban-family.com 23 Life & Culture How did you keep a toddler entertained on the long train ride? For our 2-year-old we brought many toys, treats and loaded the iPad with new movies and games. He really handled the trip well and asked if we could take the train back when we reached Moscow. For every short stop on the stations when we got off, he kept asking if we would still ride on the train. There was another child in the same wagon. They played to- 24 www.urban-family.com gether, and otherwise he was entertained by looking at all the wild horses and domestic animals we saw through the window in Mongolia. The Russian landscape is more monotonous and similar to what we are used to back home in Norway. What was the best part of the trip? All the time spent together as a family without Internet, TV and all those other distractions in daily life. When we get to Norway to see family and friends over the summer, we don’t get much time to ourselves. Having these days together will be a treasured memory, doing something so out of the ordinary. We feel like we have seen a lot of Russia even though we just had short stops and only had time to explore the train stations before reaching Moscow. The highlights along the route were definitely our stop in Ulan Bator, crossing the Gobi desert and seeing the shores of the enormous Lake Baikal. How about the worst part of the trip? Getting on the Russian train in Ulan Bator and realizing that the shower, the restaurant car and the cozy cabin had been downgraded – it felt like going back 40 years in time. Is there anything you would do differently? We would definitely have stayed in Mongolia for a few more days to go horseback riding in the Gobi Desert and sleeping in gers. Some of our fellow travellers had done this and strongly recommended it. Having another two days in Mongolia would have also enabled us to continue on a Chinese train from Ulan Bator, which would have made the whole trip more comfortable. Do you have any advice for other families who want to try this trip? Make sure you bring enough snacks, crackers, instant soup and toys for the kids. Groceries are hard to get at the train stations and it is nice to have something to nibble on without having to go to the restaurant car all the time. Also, start the visa application process early, the Russian visa can take some time and effort and is costly if you leave it until the last minute. www.urban-family.com 25 Life & Culture Festive Fall Stylish Décor Tips for Thanksgiving T By Marianna Cerini he fall season is in full swing, which for many of us means Thanksgiving. A domestic occasion as much as a mouthwatering feast, this celebration is not just about food, but also about some warm autumn cheer for the eyes, in the shape of seasonal décor and festive details to brighten up your table. To make sure you give thanks in style, we’ve rounded up some of the most tasteful ideas and items to set an ultra-chic Thanksgiving dinner and host your holiday guests with total ease. Ashley yellow floor lamp, RMB899 Fine silver wire fruit basket, RMB299 // 1398 Yuyuan Lu, by Dingxi Lu 愚园路1398号, 近定西 路 (400 017 8600) // 1398 Yuyuan Lu, by Dingxi Lu 愚园路1398号, 近定 西路 (400 017 8600) DIY mini pumpkins place cards, RMB8 for each pumpkin (check at your local fruit store), RMB3 for each place card (available at any stationary shop) 26 www.urban-family.com Floral centerpiece, RMB350, available at Jinyun Yuanyi // 406-1 Shaanxi Nan Lu, by Fuxing Lu 陕西南路4061, 近复兴路 (5158 1355) Ikea Överens dinnerware five-piece set, RMB168 // 126 Caoxi Lu, by Zhongshan Xi Lu 漕溪路126号 , 近 中山西路 (400 800 2345) Casa Pagoda candle holder, RMB2,900 // 15-17 Taikang Lu, by Sinan Lu 泰康路15-17号, 近思南 路 (6466 7521) Emoi felt coasters, RMB9 each, Mall 818 Luru Home Nankeen placemats, RMB100 each // 3/F, 818 Nanjing Xi Lu, by Shimen Yi Lu 南 京西路818号314单元, 近石门一路 (5228 5930) // No.24, Lane 637 Changle Lu, by Fumin Lu 长乐路637弄24号, 近富民路(5403 7947) Ikea Lungt orange-scented candles in glass, RMB34.90/pack of three // 126 Caoxi Lu, by Zhongshan Xi Lu 漕 溪路126号, 近中山西 路 (400 800 2345) Silver and porcelain pumpkin, RMB288 shop68909082.taobao.com www.urban-family.com 27 Life & Culture Get Crafty this Halloween Make a Pasta Skeleton This easy craft will have the whole family showing their creative bones. Materials Black paper, various dried pasta shapes and white glue. Instructions Simply choose the pasta shapes, plan your design and glue. 28 www.urban-family.com Sunny Shanghai Brunching, Sporting and Relaxing Around Town By Marianna Cerini T he shadows may be getting longer but the sun is still shining, so there’s only one thing you ought to do with the kids: go out. Whether it’s for a bike ride or to indulge in sweet treats, a walk in the former French Concession or a play date with friends, blue-sky days call for fun outdoor activities for both parents and children. Here are a few families we captured enjoying the rays – and a fair amount of pastries – on a beautiful autumn afternoon. The Libermans Half French half Swedish, the Libermans have been living in Shanghai for seven years. Their three kids go to Shanghai Community International School (SCIS), in grade 7, 6 and 3 respectively. When the young ones aren’t horseracing or going swimming, the whole family loves trying new restaurants. Rene and Mika Matthe Rene, German and Mika, Malaysian-German, were cycling around looking for a pit stop when we saw them. A two-year Shanghai resident, the Matthe family also counts Rene’s wife and daughter. Mika is in grade 5 at British International School Shanghai (BISS) and, besides bike rides and the occasional swim on the weekend, he and his dad like stacking pancakes at Mr. Pancake House. Monica Muriel and Olivia Ramos De Lur Saluces The Gefens The Machackova-Oeys Spaniard Monica Muriel is a first-time mum and entrepreneur who moved to Shanghai five and a half years ago. Super cute Olivia, her baby girl, arrived three months ago, after a relatively easy birth at Huashan Hospital. With dad Oscar, the family of three often goes to parks or meets friends for some alfresco lunching. The first child among their group of friends, Olivia gets quite a lot of attention, Muriel tells us – and she seems to enjoy it quite a lot. Both from Israel, Liron and Gadi moved to Shanghai two years ago. Their little ones, two-and-a-half-year-old Yotam and two-months-old Romy, were both born in Israel. Yotam – who was just about to indulge in some cake and pastries at Baker & Spice when we met them – goes to Fonshin International Kindergarten. Romy was too busy sleeping to care about our questions. The family often goes biking around town, or heads to Fuxing Park for some quiet outdoor time. Spotted in Ferguson Lane, the De Lur Saluces were super friendly subjects to shoot. The French family has been living in Shanghai for two years, and their two kids, aged 7 and 4, go to Le Phoenix, a French school affiliated to the worldwide network of the Mission Laique Française (MLF). At the weekend, after church, they love taking long walks around the former French Concession, where they live, or go to Fuxing Park for a picnic. With roots in Czech Republic, Finland and China, the Machackova-Oey is a truly melting pot family. Having lived in Shanghai for the last two years, the friendly bunch counts mum Jana, dad Pekka and two young daughters, twoyear-old Zoey and six-month-old Maya. Zoey goes to an indoor playground and attends art and music class at Marco and Mari, though her parents are looking for a kindergarten close to their home by Zhongshan Park. On the weekend, when they’re not at Zhongshan and Changfeng Parks, the family likes to discover new places or do brunch at the Penta Hotel. www.urban-family.com 29 cover story Fall Fun Celebrate Halloween Shanghai Style M ake the most of the season of scares with Urban Family’s guide to all things Halloween. Ghosts, goblins and things that go “bump in the night” might seem a little scary for kids, but Halloween in Shanghai can be frighteningly fun for the whole family. 30 www.urban-family.com While Halloween originated in the Middle Ages as a Catholic vigil observed on the eve of All Saints Day, the secularized and commercialized holiday of today has little to do with its origins. Typically celebrated on October 31, Halloween has become popular in the US and UK with festivities filled with costumes, elaborate decorations, pumpkin carving, parties, haunted houses and trick-or-treating. In the US, the average American spends US$80 on costumes, candy and decorations, making Halloween the nation’s second largest holiday after Christmas with over US$8 billion in sales. As Halloween’s popularity has spread, it’s no surprise that Shanghai is home to its own Halloween celebration. It might not be same as back home, but there are still plenty of ways to enjoy the spooky season. And with so many cultures coming together in Shanghai, some expat families may be new to the traditions. But Halloween’s appeal is universal, especially for kids. What child doesn’t love to dress up like their favorite cartoon hero or princess and eat candy? And adults certainly don’t have to be left out of the fun - because there’s a kid in all of us! Get Your Spook On! Where to Find a Costume in Shanghai TRALA*LA Handmade costumes for children, ages 18 months – 10 years (RMB140450). Designed by French expat Audrey Brosse with the help of her children, these high quality costumes will last well beyond Halloween season for hours of make-believe play. Find these custom creations at one of Shanghai’s many holiday bazaars, on Zocou (market.zocou.com) or contact directly. Party Pop Shop Mainly a party supply store that specializes in balloons, the newly opened Jinqiao shop also carries a selection of Halloween costumes for children and adults. Sports and Leisure Center, B13 633 Biyun Lu, by Lan’an Lu 碧云路633号B13室, 近蓝安路(5025 8576,www.qqballon.com) Mon-Sun 10am-9pm tralala.shanghai@gmail.com. Visit www.tralalashanghai.com to see the variety of styles. Holiday House One-stop shopping for costumes and decorations, Holiday House is worth a visit for the wide selection. Find the scary classics, from ghosts, bats and witches, to the fun-filled princess and superhero variety. Many accessories, hats, masks, wigs and face paint are also available. 4/F, 21 Xuhong Zhong Lu, by Kaixuan Lu 徐虹中路21 号4楼, 近凯旋路 (6447 7189) Mon-Sun 9.30am-6pm Neon Kids Plaza At this children’s market, you’ll find a variety of shops selling fun costumes for the kids, as well as a number of shoe shops if the costume requires something special. An added bonus is a trip to the play area after your costume search is complete. 10 Pu’an Lu, by Jinling Lu 普安路10号, 近 金陵路, (5383 6218) 9.30am-8pm Nantai Costume Company The place to find traditional Chinese theatrical costumes and accessories, this small shop also outfits several local Peking Opera groups. If dressing like a Peking Opera star seems like too much work, they also have silk robes, intricate wooden masks and Chinese-style slippers and qiapaos, both child and adult sizes are available. Han City If you don’t mind haggling and crowds, the fake market has a few vendors with children’s costumes. With so many shops, you might also find inspiration for a costume of your own creation. 580 Nanjing Xi Lu, by Chengdu Bei Lu 南京西 路580号, 近成都北路 Mon-Sun 10am-10pm 656 Guangdong Lu, by Henan Zhong Lu 广东路 656号,近河南中路 (6323 8344)Mon-Sun 9am-5pm Ruby’s Party A well-established costume and party supply store with bilingual staff will make shopping here a breeze. A wide variety of children and adult costumes and accessories are in stock and many can even be purchased on their website. Prices range from RMB60 for simple witch or Superman costume to RMB180 for a Roman soldier. Adorable animal costumes for toddlers such as penguins, zebras and kangaroos are RMB75. 3333 Hongmei Lu, entrance on Huaguang Lu, 虹梅 路3333号, 进口在华光路, 嘉年别墅二楼商铺(6401 6323,www.rubyparty.com) Mon-Sun 9am-9pm Shanghai South Bund Fabric Market Want to make your own custom creation? Find the materials and a tailor and bring along a photo to the fabric market for your one-of-akind look this Halloween. Hongqiao New World Pearl Market Similar to Han City, but in a different area of town, here you can find a shop or two selling your standard princess and superhero costumes. 3721 Hongmei Lu, by Yan’an Lu, 虹梅路3721号, 近延 安路 Mon-Sun 10am-9pm 399 Lujiabang Lu, by Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu上海南 外轻纺面料市场 399 陆家浜路, 近中山东二路 MonSun 10-6pm Taobao.com You’ve probably heard it many times before, but Taobao has everything, including the widest variety of costumes for young and old alike. Best of all, you can shop 24/7. If you’re not a Taobao user, you’ll need to get some help, but simply typing Halloween costume into Google Translate is a good place to start your search. You’re likely find the best prices here without having to trek all over town in your quest for the perfect costume. www.urban-family.com 31 cover story Party On! Tips For Throwing Your Own Party By Gloriana Vega A fter finding the perfect costume, it’s time to turn your place into a spooktacular haunted house. Here are a few quick and easy tips to make this Halloween the best one yet. Set the mood with a creative invitation. Make something by hand with your kids or find a template online. Be sure to include all the party details parents will need to know. Decorate Take a few empty clean glass jars, cut masking tape into Jack-O’-Lantern face shapes, paint the jars orange with paint, remove the tape and put a battery operated tea light inside. 32 www.urban-family.com Buy PVC pipes and joints, put them together to form a skeleton; add an empty five-liter water bottle to create a head. Fold a few standard size black papers to create bats and stick them all around your front door; add glitter glue for a special touch. If you want to go the extra mile, buy spider webs, giant spiders, helium balloons and make a fun Happy Halloween sign to impress your guests! Organize trick-or-treat festivities If your compound or neighborhood doesn’t have one organized, don’t be scared to talk to your neighbors and explain what this day is all about. You will be surprised how into it they will get. Make Halloween-themed snacks Cut carrots into sticks and line up together to form a pumpkin shape, then use cucumbers to create eyes and a mouth for a healthy Halloween snack. Insert pretzel sticks at the sides of an Oreo Cookie, use two mini M&M’s to create eyes for the perfect spider look. Make orange Rice Krispie balls, cut a chocolate Pocky stick in half and insert in the middle to create a stem, then use green and black royal icing to create pumpkin leaves, eyes and mouth. //Gloriana Vega is the creator of Party Box, a full service event and party planning company in Shanghai (186 2197 5150, www.partyboxcn.com) Eerie Events Frightfully Good Fun Looking for a place to take the kids to experience Halloween? Here are Urban Family’s top four picks. Freaky Football Kerry Parkside Home to Shanghai’s largest Halloween celebration, Kerry Parkside, with the help of the Little Urban Center, will be hosting various events October 25-27, 2-7pm. For trick-or-treating and a haunted house stop by on Halloween, October 31, 2-8pm. The Groovy Haunt Place: Kerry Parkside B1 (Outside of Watson’s) Oct 25-27 2-2.15pm Opening Ghost Dance 2.15-3pm Jack O’Lantern Toss, Pumpkin Carving, Boo Bowling 3-4pm Pumpkin Scroll Painting (26th Scottish Bagpipe Performance) 4-4.15pm Ghost Flash Mob 4.15-5pm Jack O’Lantern Toss, Pumpkin Carving, Boo Bowling 5-6pm Build Your Own Scarecrow 6-7pm Haunted Howling, Zombie Time October 31 2-2.15 Opening Ghost Dance 2.15-3pm Jack O’Lantern Toss, Pumpkin Carving, Boo Bowling, Ring Around the Witch’s Hat 3-4pm Build Your Own Scarecrow 4-4.15pm Ghost Flash Mob 4.15-4.45 Family Apple Bobbing Time 4.45-6pm Jack O’Lantern Toss, Pumpkin Carving, Boo Bowling, Ring Around the Witch’s Hat 6-7pm Pumpkin Scroll Painting 7-7.15pm Ghost Flash Mob 7.15-8pm Pick Your Leader, Trick-or-Treat Time // 1378 Huamu Lu, by Fangdian Lu 花木路1378号, 近芳甸路 (5033 8155, visit www.kerryparkside.com) On October 27 Urban Family is working with the NFL and Dragon Events to throw a fun kids Halloween party at Shanghai Stadium practice field from 11am-5pm. There are several Halloween themed games with prizes, including mummy decoration, bouncy castle, face painting and more. Plus, at 3pm there will be cheer clinic with real life American NFL cheerleaders. Pompoms at the ready! // Free entry, Shanghai Stadium Practice Field, No. 800 Lingling Lu, Xuhui 徐汇区零陵路800号 Awesome Kids Club Party at The Shelter Join the fun folks from Awesome Kids Club for mocktails, a monster DJ, dancing, games and a haunted house at The Shelter. Normally a nightclub, this converted bomb shelter is dark and naturally spooky. October 31, 3.30-6pm for ages 3-6, 7.30-9pm for preteen. For more information about tickets, visit www.awesomekidsclub.com.cn or call 5403 9916. // 5 Yongfu Lu, by Fuxing Xi Lu 永 福路5号, 近复兴西路 (5403 9916, info@awesomekidsclub.com.cn) Paulaner Check out the annual Paulaner Kiddies’ Halloween Party for an all-you-can eat buffet and special buffet just for the kids, along with a live band, mask craft, pirate costume relay and movies. Adults RMB200, 10-15 year-olds RMB100, 3-9 year-olds RMB68, under age 3 free. October 26, 11am-3pm. // 150 Fenyang Lu, by Yueyang Lu汾阳路150号,近岳阳路 (6474 5700, www.bln.com.cn) www.urban-family.com 33 cover story If you need a little inspiration... 34 www.urban-family.com Hit the Road Jack No-carve pumpkin decorating It’s not easy finding a pumpkin large enough to carve in Shanghai, but smaller pumpkins can be found in any wet market or grocery store. And if you want to skip the mess of carving a traditional Jack-o’-Lantern, try one of these inspired ideas instead. Make a Mummy for 7 Kuai The easiest and cheapest DIY option Stop by your local pharmacy to pick up a pack (or two) of medical gauze rolls. Dress your child in white clothes and start wrapping. Secure the gauze with tape, by tying ends together or tucking into clothes. www.urban-family.com 35 Food & fun Marketplace Nothing sweeter than pumpkin pie By Amelia Heaton-Renshaw, photos by Liva Koziola 36 www.urban-family.com J ust in time for fall, this seasonal recipe is perfect for a Thanksgiving feast with family and friends. Join Isabella Wu, Kai Hwang and Angelina Wu as they prepare this classic Thanksgiving recipe. Sweet Shortcrust Pastry • • • • 1 300 g plain flour 50 g icing sugar 150 g butter 1-2 Tbsp water Sieve flour and icing sugar into a bowl, rub in butter until it resembles breadcrumbs. 2 Add a little water to bring the pastry together, should be doughy, but still a bit crumbly. Pour into a tart base and spread around, using thumbs to push the pastry down and against the edges until the whole tart is covered, leaving no gaps. Place the tart in the fridge for 15 minutes. 3 Pre-bake the pastry case for 15 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius, putting a piece of parchment over it and pour in dried beans, or rice to stop pastry from bubbling in the middle. Pumpkin Filling • • • • • • • • • 1 kg pumpkin (peeled, deseeded and cut) 3 eggs 175 g sugar ½ tsp salt ½ tsp grated nutmeg 1 tsp cinnamon 30 g butter 220 ml milk 1 Tbsp icing sugar 4 Peel the pumpkin and deseed it, cutting it into chunks. Place the cut pumpkin in a saucepan with water, Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes, until soft. Strain through a sieve and allow pumpkin to cool. 5 Mash the pumpkin up until soft and add the salt, nutmeg and cinnamon. 6 7 8 Melt the butter, add the sugar so it softens and when a bit cooler, mix into the beaten eggs. Add mixture to the pumpkin mash. Pour the mixture level into the baked pie dish. Bake in the oven at 220 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes first, then 180 degrees for 30 minutes. 9 Sprinkle icing sugar on top when cool. Eat the pie with whipped cream or double cream. Enjoy! www.urban-family.com 37 Food & fun Patachon & Patafun Enjoy a Leisurely Lunch While the Kids Go Wild Parents in search of a place to enjoy a meal and keep the kids happy, look no further than Patachon. The second floor of the restaurant is also home to Patafun, an area just for kids with a young and energetic ayi to keep them entertained and out of trouble. Restaurant owner Charles Belin created the space from his own experience as a father of two children who often had trouble sitting through leisurely meals. Patafun’s 1,500 square feet space boasts a climbing wall, castle, slide, sand room, dress-up clothes, play kitchens and an art room. The area even has a child-size toilet and sink, as well as a diaper changing table, so there’s no walking up and down stairs when your child exclaims they need to go to the bathroom. Kids will be running to the play area before you’re even seated at the table, giving you plenty of time to browse the menu without interruption. Waiting for food is no longer an issue with the kids distracted by Patafun’s excitement. Weekend brunch is a popular time to dine with the set meal of deli meats, cheese, bread, salad and potato wedges, as well as freeflow coffee for RMB128. This also includes one hour of Patafun for the children. At other times, checking in 38 www.urban-family.com Kids will be running to the play area before you’re even seated at the table, giving you plenty of time to browse the menu without interruption your child to Patafun costs RMB50 per hour. While a kids’ menu is in the works, children can still happily enjoy the brunch or a la carte items such as pizza, pasta and puffed potatoes. And after all that playing at Patafun, your children will have worked up their appetites, eating whatever is on the plate in front of them. Filled up, they eagerly return to play while you sip your coffee and chat with your spouse or friends. It’s a perfect way to spend an afternoon where everyone leaves feeling satisfied and happy. Patafun is open to children ages 3-8, weekends from 11am-10pm, and weekdays from 5pm, so dinner and drinks are also an option. The space can also host parties or events. Final tip: Sunday brunch gets packed, so reservations are a must; try Saturday to avoid the crowd. // 426 Dagu Lu, by Shimen Yi Lu 大沽 路426号, 近石门一路 (150 2693 1989) Wine Must Hidden Family Find in Jing’an On first look, a classy wine bar like Wine Must seems an unlikely place to bring kids, but during daylight hours, children will surprisingly feel right at home. Tucked away down a lane in a trendy office complex off Wuding Lu, families feel welcome in the large terrace and kidfriendly area. Despite the adult vibe, Wine Must caters to the needs of their smallest customers, with a bounce house, children’s table, wood toys and activity cube – all likely to keep the kids entertained. For the really little ones, there are high chairs and plenty of space for strollers to be parked at the table. Wine Must is just the kind of place to gather with friends and kids for a leisurely afternoon meal on the terrace. (RMB25). Or invite some friends, buy a bottle, and you’ll get a free pizza to share with the kids. Besides the pizza, kids might like to try the chef’s tapas plate (RMB58) for the bite-size hamburgers, frites and an assortment of bread topped with goat cheese and veggies. And for dessert, the ice cream, or cake with chocolate and almonds (both RMB38) are sure to leave them feeling satisfied. Families will also enjoy the monthly French market, which sells various baked goods, fresh produce, foie gras, cold cuts and wine, bringing the feel of Paris to this little corner of Shanghai every third Saturday of the month. // 1/F, Bldg 2, 881 Wuding Lu, by Changde Lu 武定路881号 2号楼1楼, 近常德路 (6176 1378, www.winemust.com.cn) This is just the kind of place to gather with friends and kids for a leisurely afternoon meal on the terrace. Known for their extensive and affordable wine list, they have recently hired a chef from France and expanded their menu. Wine Must offers a set lunch that includes choices of salads, soup, pasta, fish and beef (one, two or three courses, from RMB58-88) daily. And the weekend barbecue menu is quite popular with families offering chicken skewers or calamari (RMB88), Australian ribeye (RMB155) and lamb chops (RMB105). With happy hour specials starting at 4pm every day, going for an early dinner may just help you and the kids avoid a late afternoon meltdown, all while enjoying a glass of house wine www.urban-family.com 39 Food & fun The Piquant Pomelo A Delicious Way to Get Vital Vitamin C By Margaret Keefe One of the first rules of healthy eating is to eat fresh foods in season. Fortunately for Shanghai-ren, the variety of fresh seasonal fruits continues growing from summer into fall. From now until November, the delicious and enormous pomelo (youzi, 柚子) is hitting the streets. Pomelos are large yellow fruit with the thickest of skins. They taste similar to grapefruit, but pomelos are sweeter, juicier and far less bitter — in other words, better! This is a great time to indulge in the fruit that is credited with being the father of the western grapefruit, (grapefruits, are supposedly a hybrid of the pomelo and the Jamaican sweet orange). Eventually the temperature in Shanghai will cool and cold and flu season will descend. The pomelo, super rich in vitamin C, providing almost 200 percent of your daily needs in just one cup, is the perfect defense against cold germs. Vitamin C is also a strong antioxidant that the body uses to fight those harmful side effects of city living – stress and pollution. A health boost we can use any time of the year. Need a juicy snack to pick you up during that afternoon lull? Pomelos are a low calorie, low GL (glycemic load) choice that you can hold in your hand. The large segments are dry to the touch, but then burst with juice on the first bite – always a pleasant surprise. The trickiest part about eating pomelo is getting to the sweet center. When you buy a whole fruit, carefully peel it using a sharp knife to cut off the top and vertically score the sides so you can peel the skin off like a banana. Then remove the remaining white membrane, which is quite bitter. Many shops also sell the segments already peeled and ready to eat. Grapefruits, are supposedly a hybrid of the pomelo and the Jamaican sweet orange. 40 www.urban-family.com While pomelo is most often eaten raw; the Thais enjoy it with a bit of salt and chili, and the fruit is frequently an ingredient in a wide variety of salads. Unpeeled pomelo fruit will keep up to one month on your kitchen counter, but don’t wait that long to enjoy the wonderful benefits of this fall fruit. // Margaret Keefe is a registered dietician and chief representative of Eat Well Shanghai, who has just released a new edition of the widely popular book, Eat Well Shanghai: Your Guide to Eating Well at Home and on the Go. Visit www.eatwellshanghai.com for more information. Trick Your Treats Halloween Cupcakes Sweet Ever After bakery takes the work out of these cupcakes and leaves all the fun to you. The decorating kit (RMB220) comes with a dozen pre-baked cupcakes, colored frosting, mini-frosting pipettes and frosting wands — everything you need to create your own edible masterpieces. //Sweet Ever After, Unit 104, Bldg 20, 14 Yuyao Lu, by Changde Lu, 余姚路 14号20号楼104室同乐坊,近常德路 (6255 5512, www.sweeteverafter.com) Liva Koziola www.urban-family.com 41 Food & fun Talking Turkey What’s on the plate for 2013 DINE IN JC Mandarin (Tatlers) Gobble: This dinner buffet features all the favorites and includes freeflow soft drinks and local beer. Offered: Nov 28, 6-9.30pm Damage: RMB298 plus 15% surcharge Reserve: 6279 1888 ext 5106/5107 1225 Nanjing Xi Lu, by Shanxi Lu 上海锦沧文华大酒店, 南 京西路1225号, 近陕西路 La Strada Gobble: Add some Italian into your meal with their Thanksgiving pizza featuring turkey, pumpkin, corn and cranberry options! No drinks included. Offered: Nov 28-30, lunch and dinner Reserve: 5404 0100 (Anfu), 6266 7909 (Xikang) 42 www.urban-family.com 1/F, 195 Anfu Lu, by Wulumuqi Lu 安福 路195号1楼, 近乌鲁木齐路 225 Xikang Lu, by Beijing Lu 西 康路225号, 近北京路 Mr. Willis Gobble: Roast turkey breast, Ballotine of leg, pine nut and lemon stuffing, candied sweet potato, cranberry sauce and gravy. Drinks not included. Offered: Nov 28-30, lunch and dinner Damage: RMB288 Reserve: 5404 0200 3/F, 195 Anfu Lu, by Wulumuqi Lu 安 福路195号3楼, 近乌鲁木齐路 New Heights Gobble: A four-course menu featuring the big bird slow cooked with mushroom stuffing. Offered: TBD Damage: RMB268 plus 10% sur- charge Reserve: 6321 0909 Three on the Bund, 7/F, 17 Guangdong Lu, by Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu 广东路 17号, 外滩三号7楼, 近中山东一路 Nougatine Gobble: Four-course Thanksgiving dinner with Kabocha squash soup, caramelized mushrooms and chive, crispy skin sea bass with roasted Brussels sprouts and spiced red apple jus and poached and confit turkey with charred foie gras and chestnut stuffing. Offered: TBD Damage: RMB398 plus 10% surcharge Reserve: 6321 7733 Three on the Bund, 4/F, 17 Guangdong Lu, by Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu 广东路 17号, 外滩三号4楼, 近中山东一路 Westin Bund (The Stage) Gobble: This Thanksgiving brunch includes oven-roasted turkey, home-baked Thanksgiving pies and sauces and their free-flow New World wine buffet and Veuve Clicquot champagne. Offered: Nov 17, 11.30am-2.30pm Damage: RMB538/adults, RMB250/4-12, free for children under three. Add 15% surcharge. Reserve: 6103 5048, reservations recommended. 1/F, 88 Henan Zhong Lu, by Guangdong Lu 河南中路88号, 上 海威斯汀大饭店1楼, 近广东路 TAKE AWAY Marriott Hongqiao (Gourmet Shop) Gobble: A delicious feast of roast turkey with sweet potato mash and candied pecan nuts, roasted Offered: Nov 28-30, lunch and dinner Damage: RMB288 Reserve: 3253 0889 Reel Mall, 1/F, 1601 Nanjing Xi Lu, by Changde Lu 南京西 路1601号1楼, 近常德路 Marriott Pudong East (Casalingo) Takeaway Gobble: Roasted 5 kg birds for RMB888 net. Offered: Nov 25-Dec 26, 11am-9pm (three day advance booking) Reserve: 6036 8838 potatoes, apple and walnut bread stuffing, Brussels sprouts, mapleglazed carrots, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce and an apple-cinnamon or maple-pumpkin pie. Offered: Nov 1-Dec 31, 6.30am9.30pm Damage: RMB1,188 net Order: 6237 6000 ext 6764 (order 48 hours in advance) 2270 Hongqiao Road, by Jianhe Lu 虹桥路2270号2楼, 近剑河路 discount brunch voucher for the Cathay Room. Reserve: 6138 6887 Fairmont Peace Hotel, 20 Nanjing Dong Lu, by Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu 南京东路20号, 上海和 平飯店1楼 近中山东一路 Henkes Takeaway Gobble: One whole turkey (5-6 kg) including candied sweet potato, cranberry sauce and gravy. No drinks included. Offered: Nov 28-30 (must order three days before) Damage: RMB1,200 Reserve: 3253 0889 Dine In Gobble: Roast turkey breast, Ballotine of leg, pine nut and lemon stuffing, candied sweet potato, cranberry sauce and gravy. Drinks not included. Dine In Gobble: A four-course set menu with roasted turkey, appetizers, dessert and coffee. Damage: RMB698 net for three-tofour people Reserve: 6036 8838 15 Xin Jinqiao Lu, by Hongfeng Lu 新金桥路15号, 近红枫路 DINE IN AND TAKE AWAY Fairmont Peace Hotel Takeaway (Victor’s) Gobble: American roast turkey (8-10 kg), mushroom and sage stuffing, chicken sausage wrapped in smoked bacon, Brussels sprouts and glazed carrots, honey roasted butternut squash, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, maple pumpkin pie and more. Offered: TBD Damage: RMB880 +15% surcharge, feeds 6-8 Order: 6138 6887 Dine In (Cathay Room) Gobble: Roasted home-style turkey of 6 kg, shitake mushroom stuffing with apricots and almonds, butternut pumpkin gratin with rosemary and honey crust, potato salad with bacon, green bean casserole with caramelized shallots, maple pumpkin pie and more. Offered: Nov 23-28 Damage: RMB688/person. Order a beverage package (bottle of champagne, red wine and six bottles of beer) for RMB988 and a 20% www.urban-family.com 43 Food & fun Looking Back For a current list of Thanksgiving feasts and festivities keep an eye out for the November issue of Urban Eyes. Our Favorite Feasts from 2012 M any of this year’s Thanksgiving menus have yet to be cooked up, but to give you a hand with pre-planning, we’ve looked back to see what’s traditionally been on the table at some of our favorite places to feast. TAKEAWAY The COOK (Kerry Hotel) What we gobbled last year: Thanksgiving takeaway turkey hampers loaded with a smorgasbord of offerings like chestnut and raisin stuffing, honey-roasted potatoes, honey-glazed carrots, brussels sprouts and cabbage, rolls and dessert such as mint chocolate 44 www.urban-family.com pecan pie, Thanksgiving cookies and pumpkin pie. 2012 price: RMB1,280, RMB1,480 or RMB1,780. 1/F, 1388 Huamu Lu, by Fangdian Lu 花木路1388号, 近芳甸路 Delicatessen (Hilton Shanghai Hongqiao) What we gobbled last year: Order a roast turkey (approx 7 kg) with chestnut stuffing, giblet gravy, cranberry jam and a choice of four sides or indulge in gammon ham (approx 7 kg) cured with cloves and nutmeg, brown sugar and pineapple glaze, served with spiced pineapple chutney and four sides. A variety of appetizers and sides to choose from. 2012 price: Both entrée packages RMB1,888. Order additional sides separately for RMB68 each and appetizers from RMB48-208. 1116 Hongsong Dong Lu 红松东路1116号 Fields What we gobbled last year: No hassle, one stop shop. Get a turkey and ham dinner (RMB3,000, serves 15-12) or just a turkey dinner (RMB1,800, serves 10-12) with all the favorites. Or just order your select staples to go with; they’ve got everything from pumpkin soup to classic stuffing to pies. 2012 price: Items vary; visit website for specific pricing. www.fieldschina.com Party on Shanghai What we gobbled last year: Fill in the missing pieces and mains, from whole 6 kg oven-roasted turkeys served with sides (RMB980, feeds 10-12) and maple-glazed hams to holiday classics like baked mac n’ cheese, chestnut, bread and celery stuffing, maple-glazed sweet potatoes, select soups, salads and more traditional (and non-traditional) offerings. Includes a wide selection of desserts, just like Mamma makes! 2012 Price: Visit the website for full menu and price, plus delivery fee (10% charge). www.partyonshanghai.com DINE IN Boxing Cat What we gobbled last year: Honey butter roasted turkey with smoked giblet gravy, mustard and brown sugar-glazed ham with bourbon cranberry compote, andouille sausage croissant dressing, roasted beet and sweet potato gratin, brown butter mashed potatoes, creamed Brussels sprouts with candied bacon and apples, ginger crusted pumpkin pie, granola crunch apple cobbler and more. Includes free-flow microbrew beers, house wine, soft drinks, coffee and tea. 2012 price: RMB400 adults, RMB100 kids. Sinan Mansions: 26A, 519-521 Fuxing Zhong Lu, by Sinan Lu 复兴中路519-521 号思南公馆26A, 近思南路 (6426 0360) Fuxing: 82 Fuxing Xi Lu, by Yongfu Lu 复兴西路82号, 近永福路(6431 2091) City Bistro (Shanghai Marriott City Centre) What we gobbled last year: A buffet-style loaded spread featuring malt-beer-brined turkey with malt glaze, maple-braised butternut squash with fresh thyme, roasted sweet potato wedges with smoked chili cream and pumpkin pie with pepita, nut and ginger topping. 2012 price: RMB258, plus 15% 555 Xizang Zhong Lu, by Beijing Lu 西藏中路555号,近北京路 El Willy What we gobbled last year: Happy turkey with stuffing, gravy, green beans, honey glazed carrots, cranberry, mashed potatoes with roasted garlic, pumpkin pie, chocolate pecan pie and cornbread. 2012 price: RMB388 includes freeflow stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, beans and cranberry sauce. 5/F, 22 Zhongshan Dong Er Lu, by Xin Yong’an Lu中山东 二路22号5楼, 近新永安路 Grand Brasserie (Waldorf Astoria) What we gobbled last year: An array of traditional Thanksgiving specialties will accompany the normal garden salad bar, cheese and charcuterie, seafood bar, cold and hot appetizers and soups such as herb-brined turkey breast, lamb stew with root vegetables and rosemary as well as gratin of sweet potato with marshmallow topping. A decadent dessert spread and wines to pair up with your menu are there to tantalize your taste buds while the resident jazz band will tickle your eardrums all evening. 2012 price: RMB588, plus 15% 2 Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu, by Guangdong Lu 上海市黄浦区中山东一 路2号, 华尔道夫酒店大堂楼层, 近广东路 Madison What we gobbled last year: Truffled pumpkin soup with pepitas and parmesan frico, winter salad with blackened prawns, root veggies and charred lemon vinaigrette, sea bream, butter poached turkey breast with sweet potato, Brussel sprouts and cranberry gastrique, turducken roll and brûlée pumpkin tart with holiday spice and sour cream ice cream. 2012 price: RMB598, with a glass of sparkling wine or house-made apple cider. 3 Fenyang Lu, by Huaihai Lu 汾阳路3号, 近淮海中路 MAYA What we gobbled last year: To go along with a complimentary glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, enjoy spiced butternut squash soup or agave-roasted pear and ceviche salad, chipotle butter-roasted turkey with chestnut cornbread stuffing, chili cranberry sauce and truffle as well as cilantro-studded whipped potatoes. Pumpkin pie with cranberry ice cream and walnut whipped cream for dessert, plus a glass of MAYA’s house-spiced homemade eggnog. 2012 price: RMB295, or order a la carte Grand Plaza Club House 2/F, 568 Julu Lu, by Shaanxi Nan Lu 巨鹿路568号, 近陕西南路 Mexico Lindo What we gobbled last year: Roast turkey, homemade stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, relish tray, apple-cranberry sauce, veggies and dinner rolls. Dessert includes pumpkin pie or caramel flan. Along with free-flow soft drinks, dinner includes two glasses of house wine, draft beer or frozen margaritas. 2012 price: RMB228pp, RMB88 kids under 12. sauce and pumpkin pie 2012 price: RMB350pp dine in, children under 12 half price, includes buffet plus free-flow wine and standard draft beer. Takeaway packages on a la carte basis, visit www. bubbaasia.com for full listing. Hongmei Pedestrian Street Unit 39, Lane 3338 Hongmei Lu, by Yan’an Xi Lu 虹梅路3338弄39 号虹梅休闲街, 近延安西路 Reservations: Required (Phone numbers listed below) Bubba’s Hongqiao: 2262 Hongqiao Lu, by Jianhe Lu 虹桥路2262 号, 近剑河路(6242 2612) Yi Café (Pudong Shangri-La) Bubba's Riverside: Cool Docks Section 4, 653 Waima Lu, by Wangjia Matou Lu 老码头, 四库, 外码路653 号, 近王家码头路(5302 7588) What we gobbled last year: Enough to stuff Big Bird! Lobster bisque served in baby pumpkins, an iced seafood station, smoked fish and imported cheeses. The Western station includes roasted turkey with traditional stuffing and cranberry chutney, beef rib-eye with Yorkshire pudding, roasted leg of lamb with potato mash and roasted chestnuts. Last year saw three turkey carving stations with an assortment of holiday sides, a Malaysian station, grill, Chinese station and desserts that include over 18 pies and cakes, an ice cream teppanyaki corner and crepe station. 2012 price: RMB466pp, RMB255 for children. Level 1, Tower 2, 33 Fucheng Lu, by Yincheng Dong Lu 富城路33号香 格里拉酒店2号楼1楼,近银城东路 DINE IN OR TAKEAWAY Bubba’s What we gobbled last year: Smoked USDA turkeys (14 lbs), garlic mashed potatoes, stuffing, steamed veggies, fresh rolls, Southwest-style gravy, cranberry Café Studio (Four Seasons) What we gobbled last year: Highlights include traditional turkey and baked ham, live seafood and a dessert buffet, plus a cupcake giveaway. Free-flow sparkling wine and soft drinks, plus one glass of rose champagne per guest. Turkey and honey-baked ham available for takeaway. 2012 price: RMB368, 15% discount for bookings of six or more 500 Weihai Lu, by Shimen Yi Lu 上海 四季洒店, 威海路500号, 近石门一路 Shanghai Slims What we gobbled last year: A first course choice of Chesapeake Bay jumbo lump crab cake or Boston lobster bisque, followed by roast butterball turkey and roast prime rib with whipped potatoes, candied yams, chestnut and mushroom stuffing, lobster mac and cheese and more. Plus free-flow egg nog, rum hot toddies, glögg wine, draft beer and wine. 2012 price: RMB380, RMB88 for kids under 12 10-12, Sinan Mansions, 523 Fuxing Zhong Lu, by Sinan Lu复兴中路523 弄思南公馆10-12号, 近思南路 The Spot What we gobbled last year: Turkey set with soup, salad and dessert or a whole turkey with side dishes serving 6-8 people. Sides include roasted potatoes, grilled veggies, corn muffins and dessert choices, such as apple pie and chocolate mousse. 2012 price: RMB198, RMB998/ whole turkey 331 Tongren Lu, by Beijing Lu 铜 仁路331号, 近北京西路 www.urban-family.com 45 wellbeing TCM and Your Child When Should Kids Use Traditional Chinese Medicine? By Doris Rathgeber T raditional Chinese Medicine has a very specific understanding of children. First of all, their yin and yang are out of balance, yang is dominant, children are ruled by the active, hot and bright element. This translates into a tendency of being hyperactive, incapable of staying still and to have a body temperature that gets easily elevated. Also, in terms of health, they get sick easily, but recover very quickly. Contrary to chronic diseases, acute diseases, arise rapidly with fever and intense symptoms, then get cured after a few days, mainly affect children. Kids react easily to medication and recover more quickly than adults, which is why they need gentle medical techniques and lower doses of medication. According to TCM, children’s organs are not complete yet and their bodies are still fragile. They have a different constitution than adults: their qi (vital energy) is weak and their organs, bones and muscles are soft and still maturing. Children are particularly vulnerable to the following: ●Upper respiratory tract diseases (such as cold, cough, asthma and bronchitis) because their lungs are weak. ●Spleen diseases (vomiting, diarrhea, constipation) because their stomach is sensitive and their digestive system is not completely developed. They also tend to gain or lose weight easily. ●Liver disturbances because of excessive emotions – in TCM the liver is associated with the emotions – resulting in children becoming easily emotionally upset with a yang excess. Among all the factors that can cause disease in children, the main cause is a non-adapted diet. Indeed, they have a maturing digestive system and cannot digest all types of food. Even if variety is important, forcing children to eat food items they do not want to eat is not beneficial. Usually children naturally select the food items they know they can easily digest. They also prefer small meals at flexible times to three big meals at adult-appropriate times. Introduce variety gently. Healthy foods will enable children to develop beautifully, as well as to get used to new flavors. Generally, it is best to try to avoid Yin and yang are out of balance in children. Yang is dominant children are ruled by the active, hot and bright element. uncooked, frozen and spicy food and serve meals at regular times. A TCM doctor can effectively and naturally treat 46 www.urban-family.com the above-mentioned diseases within a short period of time. Those diseases are mainly cured with herbal medicine because it is difficult to practice acupuncture on children who might be afraid of needles and might move during treatment. Mixing in honey or apple juice can help facilitate the intake of Chinese medicine. TCM is the right solution for parents looking for a natural way to cure their children or prevent other diseases, and not expose them to Western medicine that can sometimes be too strong for them. // Doris Rathgeber is the founder and general manager of Body & Soul-Medical Clinics, www. tcm-shanghai.com. See listings for locations. Say Boo to the Flu! It's Influenza Season By Dr. Michael Moreton The days are getting shorter, and the weather is feeling cooler; winter will soon be upon us. Winter in China is a beautiful time, but it can be harsh and often accompanied by unwelcomed visitors, including the influenza virus. Almost every year there are outbreaks of this unpleasant disease, which is also part of a worldwide epidemic. Influenza, commonly called the flu, is a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory tract spreading rapidly from person to person. Compared to other viral infections such as the common cold, it can be a very severe illness and progress to pneumonia. The elderly and chronically ill, due to their low immune systems, are at particular risk. The flu is a clever virus, each year coming back in a slightly different form, so that the antibodies formed against previous flu attacks do not protect us. It’s as if the virus changes its overcoat and puts on dark glasses. It’s the same old flu, but the immune system does not recognize it. If you have the flu, you need to take care of yourself. Stay home, stay in bed and take plenty of water and other fluids. Patients who try to fight it and do not rest can end up making things worse and end up sick and out of work longer than those who stay in bed. Tylenol or Panadol can be useful for people who are feverish. Antibiotics DO NOT kill viruses. Let me repeat that, antibiotics DO NOT kill viruses. Taking them by mouth, injection or intravenously is pointless unless a secondary bacterial infection occurs from the flu virus. There are some newer antiviral drugs that, if taken very early in the The flu is a clever virus, each year coming back in a slightly different form. illness, can help modify and shorten it’s course. Over-the-counter medication such as cough and cold medicines may help you feel better, but they do not curtail the illness, which will usually last about a week. You should see a doctor if you have the flu and also have other serious medical conditions, including diabetes, respiratory or cardiac problems. In addition, if you have difficulty breathing, feel tightness in the chest, are wheezing, are coughing up thick sputum, or if your throat is so sore that you have difficulty swallowing, then you should seek medical help. A pediatrician should see all children under two years old with flu symptoms. Other indications to watch out for would be if a child or adult seem to be improving and then the fever and other symptoms return, it is essential that they see a doctor. During a flu epidemic, you should protect yourself. Whether there is an epidemic or not, wash your hands carefully with hand disinfectant. Prevention is the key. Redleaf Women’s Hospital recommends that you get the flu shot each year. Dr. Michael Moreton is the International Medical Coordinator at Redleaf Women’s Hospital. //Redleaf, 1209 Huaihai Zhong Lu, by Donghu Lu 淮海中路1209号上 海红枫母婴中心, 近东湖路 (6196 3333, www.redleafhospital.com) www.urban-family.com 47 urban scenes Community Happenings In September, Sigikid - a highend German brand for infants and children - held a press conference in Kerry Parkside Pudong showing off its collection of baby toys, super soft plush animals and educational toys. Sigikid entered China in 2012, bringing with it the philosophy “Your children deserve a warm and unforgettable childhood.” During the Mid-Autumn Festival holidays (September 19-21) the 2013 Wuxi Taihu Music Festival was held in the Wuxi Lihu Central Park. Artists from the US, Britain and Russia as well as Shanghai and Beijing performed on the electronic stage, where eight Barco projectors from Germany and 10 laser lights costing RMB8 million turned the whole stage into a fantastical 3D world. It was a dream-land of electronic dance music: dubstep, progressive, trance, psytrance, techno, house and electro. China’s top test prep academy, New Pathway, is giving the students of Shanghai an opportunity to not only study in peace in some of the most modern, technologically equipped classrooms in Xujiahui, Gubei and Pudong, but also gives them access to teachers who have graduated from Harvard, Stanford, MIT and many of the world’s other top universities . Call 5432 5782 and book a time gratis to help your student receive the top educational support needed for their future. CNN Hero Thoulani Madondo visited Concordia on September 13. Madondo’s program provides academic support to 400 children living in the poverty-stricken area of Kliptown, South Africa. He and his troup of performers visited campus as a part of the Kliptown Youth Program Gumboot Movement China Tour. The troup electrified an assembly of students with dances, drumming and a discussion about how South Africa has changed over the past 20 years. He touched upon the struggles that poverty continues to bring to his community, such as lack of schools, clinics and even enough food. Thoulani, a South African who loves his country, shared the powerful effect the end of Apartheid in the 1990s has had upon him directly. With the recognition and monetary award being named CNN Hero has brought, an academy has been funded to provide 400 local students with a computer room and a school where English, math and science lessons are taught. “Our mission is to help young people get out of poverty,” said Thoulani. “I want them to realize that it doesn’t cost any money to dream. It’s free to dream.” It was a busy summer at the Kerry Parkside. Most weekends between May and October, they turned their lower courtyard into a music festival. With great tunes, tasty BBQ and a great atmosphere, their Rhapsody.pm jazz fest brought families and friends together in the name of music. Sponsored by the JZ School and the Love My Music contest, Rhapsody gathered some of China’s best up-and-coming performers for six months of entertainment. 48 www.urban-family.com EVENTs Submit your events listing to urbanfamily@urbanatomy.com Oktoberfest Oct 11 Fenglin Lu, by Zhongshan Nan Yi Lu 枫林路485弄13号楼, 近中山南一路 (www.sproutlifestyle.com) YCIS Founders Day YCIS students, faculty and staff at campuses in China, Hong Kong and the US celebrate the eighty-one year history of the school and education foundation, and commemorate the life, memory and accomplishments of the founder, Madame Tsang Chorhang. The celebration will feature a live broadcast from the current Director of YCIS, Dr. Betty Chan Poking, as well as fun, team-building activities throughout the day. // All campuses, see listings (www. ycef.com) Oct 24-27 BMW Golf Masters Some of the world’s best golfers will descend onto Lake Malaren Golf Club to compete in Shanghai’s second BMW Golf Masters. Last year, Sweden’s Peter Hanson claimed the inaugural championship fending off then world number one Rory McIlroy. McIlroy has already confirmed his appearance and will try to right a tough year. RMB400-1500. Lake Malaren Golf Club, 6655 Hutai Lu, by Meilan Hu Dadao 沪太路6655号, 美兰湖大道 (www.bmw-golfsport.com) Oct 19 Jiashan Market Two Saturdays a month, local vendors and independent businesses turn the old Shanghai Knitting Factory courtyard into a bustling, eco-friendly market that’s great fun for friends and family. Foodies come for the homemade jams, baked goods, sausages, cheeses and more. There are also crafts, cards and a design corner for fashionistas and trinket trawlers. Run by Amelia Heaton-Renshaw, Jiashan Market is usually held every first and third Saturday of the month, but due to the holidays, we only have one in October, so don ’t miss out! // Free, 10am-4pm. Lane 256 Jiashan Lu, by Jianguo Zhong Lu 嘉善路256 弄, 近建国中路 Oct 20 Music Fest at Kerry Parkside Bring the kids for a day of live, outdoor music performances and fun. Free entry, 2-5pm. Kerry Parkside Courtyard, 1378 Huamu Lu, by Fangdian Lu 花木路1378号浦东嘉里 成室外中庭, 近芳甸路 Oct 21 Sprout Lifestyle Official Opening Come and celebrate the opening of Sprout Lifestyle’s new takeaway café today where there will be free green shots, nibbles and tasting competitions. 10am-4pm. Eco Village, Bldg 13, 485 Oct 25-27 Red Hot Broadway Broadway’s songs from Chicago, Grease, Mama Mia, Les Misérables and other classics are packaged in this renowned show. It’s been breaking box office records around the world. RMB80-880, 7pm. Shanghai Oriental Art Centre, 425 Dingxiang Lu, by Shiji Dadao丁香路425 号, 近世纪大 道 (400 650 5050) OCT 11-19 Oct 26 Prostest with the mostest! From Friday October 11 until Saturday October 19 family friendly Paulaner Brauhaus @ Fenyang is bringing Oktoberfest far from its home in Bavaria and back to the streets of Shanghai. This week-long event embraces many traditions that have been upheld since the festivals' beginning in 1810. Paulaner aims to provide an authentic experience by serving unique Oktoberfest drinks in their beer garden, Bavarian culinary specialties from their kitchen, and a genuine nine-piece band – Die Kirchdorfer – flown in from Munich. In short, loads of fun to help celebrate one of the biggest festivals in Europe. Paulaner will be offering packages for groups of six people or more, available by booking at least 24 hours in advance (we ’d suggest earlier). All packages include a three course set menu, plus all-you-can-drink Paulaner beer, soft drinks, juices, coffee or tea. This set menu (RMB338) is available daily until midnight. There is also a special deal on Sunday or Monday with an alternate set menu (RMB238) available until 10.30pm, plus one on Tuesday and Wednesday (RMB278) also running until 10.30pm. For smaller groups Paulaner will still have an a la carte menu which will feature many Oktoberfest favorites. // Paulaner Brauhaus, 150 Fenyang Lu, by Fuxing Lu 汾阳路150, 近复兴路 号 (6474 5700) Family Bazaar Get ready and mark your calendar; October 26 is the Shanghai Singapore International School 3rd International Family Bazaar, the largest PSG (Parent Support Group) fundraiser event of the year where all proceeds go towards charity. This event is open to everyone! There will be game booths for all skill levels, a book sale, performances, travel packages and more, plus an opportunity to find interesting afterschool programs for your kids. // Free, 10am–4pm. 301, Zhujian Lu, by Jinhui Lu 朱建路301号, 近金辉路 Community Picnic/Bazaar The YCIS Parents Organization Pudong (POP) has worked hard to organize this annual event, which will feature delicious food, fun www.urban-family.com 49 events Marathon games and activities, providing a wonderful opportunity for families to get to know the teachers, staff and one another. // (www.ycef.com) Oct 27 Pet Adoption Day Come and play with cats and dogs and maybe take one home at this pet adoption day run by Best Friends. All adoptable pets are in healthy conditions and are vaccinated, de-wormed, neutered and ready to be given a permanent home. 11am-3pm. Pourquoi Pet Café, 3585 Yindu Lu, by Humin Lu 银都路3585 号, 近沪闵路 (147 8258 8576, www. bestfriendschina.org/en) New England Patriots Cheerleaders Stop by the NFL Home Field to get a peek at the New England Patriots cheerleaders, who are visiting Shanghai as part of their China tour. A special night game between the Shanghai Nighthawks and Shanghai Warriors will also be played. 9am-7.30pm. Shanghai Stadium Grass Practice Field, 800 Ling Ling Lu by Tianyaoqiao Lu 零陵路800号, 近 天钥桥路 (www.nflchina.com/eng/ homefield/shanghai) Dec 1 Shanghai International Marathon Oct 28–Nov 1 Charity Week YCIS Primary students come together throughout this special event. The YCIS Shanghai’s Pudong Campuses Conduct Charity Week The 2013 Shanghai International Marathon registration is now open to a limited number of participants. On the first day of December, Shanghai’s largest running event will bring together 35,000 runners for a unique city experience. Start pounding the pavement on the historical Bund, run along Nanjing Lu and end up all the way to the Shanghai Stadium. It's a fun way to rediscover the city and get in a lot (or just a little) exercise. The race is separated into four courses: mini 5 km, 10 km run, half marathon (21.0975km) and the full marathon (42.195km). // Foreign applicants should visit www.shmarathon.com/en or call 021-6487 2909 Creative Classes will offer a range of activities and projects that help develop strong character traits, such as compassion and concern for their community and fellow citizens. // Pudong campuses, see listings (www.ycef.com) held every first and third Saturday of the month. Free, 10am-4pm. Lane 256 Jiashan Lu, by Jianguo Zhong Lu 嘉善路 256 弄,近建国中路 Nov 7 Nov 2 Oct 26 Kids art classes Lily’s Antiques has been operating Chinese cultural handcraft workshops in Beijing for several years, and are bringing it to Shanghai to help more and more people learn about Chinese handcraft culture through its fun, hands-on teaching method. This time, it is wood carving and tiger painting, and there will also be fan painting, bamboo painting and more in the future. Five years old and above. Adults are also welcome! // RMB100/kid/class Morning class: 10am-12pm, afternoon class: 2-4pm. 1037 Biyun Lu, by Huangyang Lu 碧云路1037号, 近黄杨路 Contact Ms. Patty 5019 1199 for more info and to sign up. 50 www.urban-family.com Jiashan Market Two Saturdays a month, local vendors and independent businesses turn the old Shanghai Knitting Factory courtyard into a bustling, eco-friendly market that’s great fun for friends and family. Foodies come for the homemade jams, baked goods, sausages, cheeses and more hot food options. There are also crafts, cards and a design corner for fashionistas and trinket trawlers. Run by Amelia Heaton-Renshaw, Jiashan Market is Coffee Connection Join Tess Johnston’s talk if you are interested in the history of Shanghai expats. Highly recommended by reviewers, Ms. Johnston - the “lively, engaging, often irreverent” story teller - will present a charming part of Shanghai’s history. // Free, 10-11.30am. Unit B, 5 building, No. 3215 Hongmei Lu, by Chengjiaqiao Lu 虹梅路3215弄201 号圣伦兰大厦5楼B座, 近程家桥路 (6406 4267, communitycenter.cn) Nov 1-Dec 13 Western Cooking for Ayis Not a fan of Ayi’s recipes? Here is a wonderful chance to introduce your culture to them. Every Friday a dedicated western chef is ready to share some experiences with ayis. RMB1,900, 12.30-2.30pm. 2/F, No. 418 Jinxiu Dong Lu, by Jinqiao Lu 锦绣东 路418弄 云间绿大地会所2楼 (6406 4267, communitycenter.cn) Nov 16 Jiashan Market Two Saturdays a month, local vendors and independent businesses turn the old Shanghai Knitting Factory courtyard into a bustling, eco-friendly market that’s great fun for friends and family. Foodies come for the homemade jams, baked goods, sausages, cheeses and more hot food options. There are also crafts, cards and a design corner for fashionistas and trinket trawlers. Run by Amelia Heaton-Renshaw, Jiashan Market is held every first and third Saturday of the month. Free, 10am-4pm. Lane 256 Jiashan Lu, by Jianguo Zhong Lu 嘉善路256 弄,近建国中路 the cheerful music. // RMB100, 9.30-10.30am. Building 2F, No. 360 Xingle Lu by Jinfweng Lu 幸乐路360号2 楼, 靠近金丰路 (6406 4267, communitycenter.cn) Every Saturday Tour: Shanghai Kung Fu Newman Tours are the people behind the Gangster Tour and they’re back with their brand new Kung Fu tour. Learn the legends of China’s martial arts while using state of the art machines to practice your skills. RMB260/person, RMB240/ student, RMB130/kids under 14, 1.30-3.30pm(138 1777 0229, www. newmantours.com) Every Sun Family Day This is now a regular Mansion event: family day every Sunday. Kids can come and watch a kid-style movie and everyone gets to go in the pool. Free for adults who come with children under one meter (free entry for kids) as well as people who wish to enjoy a sober and chill afternoon. If you want a little bit of lubrication during the course of the afternoon, adults pay RMB100 on the door and get three alcohol refreshments. Kids who pay RMB100 get five free soft drinks. // B18, 2388 Hongqiao Lu, by Hongjing Lu 虹桥路2388号B18, 近虹 井路 (186 0177 3399) Tour: Shanghai Ghost Tour With Halloween right around the corner, discover supernatural Shanghai with Newman Tours. The popular tour includes a walk through an old colonial cemetery and a chance to try creepy water calligraphy. There is also an option to add in a Ghost festival dinner. RMB130-260, 7pm-9pm. (138 1777 0229, www.newmantours.com) Staycation Dec 7 Battle of the Bands This December’s Battle of the Bands for Heart to Heart will be bigger than ever! Join on December 7 at the Mercedez-Benz Arena’s Mixing Room/Muse to raise money to fund heart surgery for children in need. Local and international students will compete to raise the roof and raise money to win some amazing prizes, including the chance to open for the evening concert, where some very big international acts will be performing! For more information on the event and how to enter your band, visit www. battleofthebandsforcharity.weebly. com. // RMB50. 1200 Shibo Dadao 世博大道1200号 (www. battleofthebandsforcharity.weebly. com) Every Friday Bollywood Dance Light-hearted music, glamorous dresses and pure joy – how could you resist the charm of a Bollywood dance? Newbies need not worry if they've never tried this out before, just join up and immerse yourself in Until Feb 2014 Family Fun at the Shangri-La Family time is sure to be ever better at Pudong Shangri-La, East Shanghai as the hotel invites guests and their family for a fun-filled stay from only RMB1,900 per night in a River Wing Deluxe Room. The rate quoted is for triple occupancy of two adults and one child. To encourage guests to make the most of their stay in Shanghai, the hotel package includes an entrance ticket pack worth RMB300 where guests can choose destinations amongst the Shanghai Bund Ferry Tour, Shanghai Aquarium and Oriental Pearl Tower and the Shanghai Technological Centre. The hotel is within walking distance of Shanghai ’s signature attractions such as the Shanghai Bund River Cruise terminal, Oriental Pearl Tower and the Shanghai Aquarium. It is also the only hotel that offers an eye-level unblocked view of the historical Shanghai Bund. For extra convenience when travelling to other attractions in Shanghai, choose to stay over the weekend, as the package will also include a Shanghai transportation card with a RMB200 credit. The hotel is conveniently located next to the Lujiazui metro station on Line 2. Widely featured for its family-friendly buffet at Yi Café, where the chatty chefs at ten live cooking stations serve their native cuisine, adult gourmands and picky kids alike are sure to be pleased. Under Shangri-La’s Children’s Meal Plan, children of registered guests under the age of six staying at city hotels can enjoy complimentary buffet meals in all day dining and pool cafes when accompanied by a paying adult, up to a maximum of two children. Additional children or those between ages six and 12 staying at city hotels get a 50 percent discount off of the buffet price. // RMB1,900-2,800 subject to 15 per cent service charge. 33 Fucheng Lu, by Yincheng Dong Lu 富城路33号, 近银城东路. For more information and reservations call 6882 6688, fax 6882 0160 or e-mail reservations.SLPU@shangri-la.com. www.urban-family.com 51 listings listings Education Early Childhood Education Canada & China International School affiliated with the Vancouver International Educational Development Centre. Whole day kindergarten program for ages 3 to 6, 9am - 3.30pm. After school programs available on weekends: Emergent Art, Science, Drama and Literature. Block B,C,D,F, 3/F, 1399 Beijing Xi Lu 北京西路1399号3楼B,C,D,F座 (3207 1135) International Play Point @ Longbai GB2, Building 2, Longbai Service Apts, 2461 Hongqiao Lu 龙柏IPP, 虹桥路 2461号2号楼GB2 (6268 8320) Shanghai babyArt Education Management Consulting Co., Ltd. Room 705, Bldg A, Hongqiao Flourish Lotus Plaza, 1050 Wuzhong Lu 吴中 路1050号虹桥盛世莲花广场A幢705 室(5422 1000, www.babyart.cn) Totsgarten Play Center Odin Palace, Branch 88, Club House, 3001 Hongmei Lu 奥玎亲子坊早教中心, 虹梅路3001弄88支弄奥玎花园会所 (6401 8381, www.totsgarten.com) Kindergartens American Kindergarten Stars and Stripes 138 Yingbin San Lu 迎宾 三路138号 (6268 5006, www. starsandstripes.cn, info@USL.com) Bright Start Academy 2F, 10-3 Cangwu Lu, by Tianlin Lu 苍梧路10号 3幢2楼,近田林路 (6451 7908, www. kidsbrightstart.com) Century Star Bilingual Kindergarten 169 Boshan Dong Lu, by Deping Lu and Jujiaqiao Lu 博山东路169号,德平 路居家桥路中间 (5850 6698, www. shsjx.com) China Welfare Institution Kindergarten 1361 Xiuyan Lu, by Hunan Lu 秀沿路1361号,近沪南路 (6819 2362, www.cwikin.com) Dulwich College Kindergarten Shanghai 425 Lan’an Lu, by Biyun Lu 蓝桉路425号,近碧云路 (5899 9910, www.dulwichcollege.cn) Fortune Kindergarten International School 1) 55 Lancun Lu (5875 1212, 52 www.urban-family.com www.fkis.com.cn) 2) 201 Donghuan Long Lu 东环龙路201号(5039 8797) 3) 2151 Lianhua Lu 莲花路2151号(5458 0508) Harvest Baby Kindergarten 149 Hengbang Lu, by Tiantong'an Lu 横 浜路149号,近天潼庵路 (6587 8662) Learning Habitat Bilingual Kindergarten Block C, Blue Sky Villa, 1980 Hongqiao Lu, by Hongmei Lu 虹 桥路1980号蓝天别墅C幢 (6262 7668, www.learninghabitat.org) Little Eton Bilingual Kindergarten 592 Wanping Nan Lu, by Lingling Lu 宛 平南路592号(6469 0445, www.littleeton.com, little-eton@eastday.com) Maryland Kindergarten 1/F, 59 Ronghua Xi Dao, by Suicheng Lu 华西 道59号1楼, 近水城路(6270 1393, 6270 2393, www.smlk.kr, maryland_sh@ hanmail.net) Merrykids Kindergarten No.42, 21 Pubei Lu, by Liuzhou Lu 蒲北路21弄 42号,近柳州路 (6483 0206, www. merrykids.com) Montessori Children’s House EnglishGerman-Mandarin classes. 7.30am 4.40pm. 56 Lingshan Lu, by Yinshan Lu and Yunshan Lu 灵山路56号,近银 山路和云山路 Montessori School of Shanghai 1) Qingpu Campus: 1230 Zhuguang Lu 诸光路1230号 (5988 6688, www. montessorisos.com) 2) 21 Donghu Lu 东湖路21号(5403 7699, www. montessorisos.com) Morgan Rothschild Childcare Center Building 161, 1358 Huqingping Gong Lu沪青平公路1358号161 幢 (6976 1000 ext 10/88, www. morganrothschild.com) SCIS Hongqiao ECE Campus 2212 Hongqiao Lu 虹桥路2212号(6261 4338, Fax: 6261 4639) Shanghai Angels Kindergarten 281 Panlong Cun 蟠龙村281号 (5988 3458, www.angels.org.cn) Shanghai Greenfield Kindergarten 1980 Hongqiao Lu, by Hongmei Lu 虹 桥路1980号,近虹梅路 (6261 4446) Shanghai Ladder Bilingual Kindergarten 910 Yingkou Lu, by Xiangyin Lu 营口路910号,近翔殷路 (6534 7515) Tweety's English School No 66, 60 Jinhui Nan Lu, by Wuzhong Lu 金汇南 路60弄66号,近吴中路 (6406 0846) Shanghai Montessori Kindergarten No. 20, 1117 Zhuguang Lu 诸光路1129 号20号(3319 9422, www.s-m-k.org, montessorikindergarten@yahoo. com.cn) Shanghai Victoria Kindergarten 1) No 1, 71 Huating Lu, by Huaihai Zhong Lu华亭路71弄1号,近淮海中路 (5403 6901, www.victoria.edu.hk) 2) No 15, 155 Baocheng Lu 宝城路155弄15号 (5415 2228, www.victoria.edu.hk) 3) No 38, 39 Yinxiao Lu 银霄路39弄38 号(5045 9084, www.victoria.edu.hk) 4) No 81, 300 Gumei Lu (6401 1084, 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Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-5pm United Family Quankou Clinic Dental Clinic 8 Quankou Lu, by Linquan Lu, Changning District (2216 3909) Mon-Sat: 8am-5.30pm www. ufh.com.cn上海和睦家医院口腔美容 中心,泉口路 8号,近林泉路 Star Dental 1) 4/F, Jing’An Sport Center, 428 Jiangning Lu, by Wuding Lu 江宁路428号静安体育中心4楼,近 武定路(6272 7717) 2) 37 Weifang Lu, by Pudong Nan Lu 潍坊路37号,近浦 东南路(5836 0668) Mon-Fri 10am7pm, Sat-Sun 9am-6pm Tokushinkai Dental Clinics 1)Hongqiao Clinic: 3/F, Maxdo Centre, 8 Xingyi Lu 兴义路8号万都中心3楼(5208 0208, 5208 0218) Sun-Sat 10am-8pm 2) Jing’An Clinic: 2/F, 555 Building, 555 Nanjing Xi Lu 南京西路555号,三五 大厦2楼(6340 0270, 6340 0290) 3) Jinqiao Clinic: 160 Lan’an Lu, by Biyun Lu 蓝桉路160号,近碧云路 (5030 7858, 5030 7868) 4)Lianyang Clinic: 1198 Dingxiang Lu 丁香路1198号 (6856 1040, 6856 1045) WorldPath Clinic International 399 NanQuan Bei Lu 南泉北路399号 (2020 7888, www.worldpathclinic. com, service@worldpathclinic.com) Mon-Fri 9am-8pm,Sat-Sun 9am5.30pm Health Services AmMed Cancer Center 20/F, Shanghai Ruijin Hospital OPD, 197 Ruijin Er Lu 瑞金二路197号瑞金医院门诊大楼20 楼 (6415 5988, www.ruijin-ammed. com) Cosmetic Plastic & Laser Center BIOSCOR Shanghai Clinic Cosmetic Surgery Botox & Dermafiller Laser Skin Center Cosmetic Dentistry Bioscor Shanghai Clinic 5, 89 Xingguo Lu 兴国路89弄5号(6431 8899, www. bioscor.com.cn, info@bioscor.com.cn) 9am-6pm Body & Soul – Medical Clinics 1) Huangpu: 14/F, An Ji Plaza, 760 Xizang Nan Lu 西藏南路760号安基 大厦14楼5室(5101 9262, huangpu@ bodyandsoul.com.cn) 2)Minhang: Zhi Di Plaza, 211 Chengjia Qiao Zhi Lu 程家 桥支路211号(6461 6550, minhang@ bodyandsoul.com.cn) 3)Jingan: 6/F, Four Seasons Hotel, 500 Weihai Lu 威海路500号上海四季酒店6楼(5101 9262, jingan@bodyandsoul.com.cn) 4)Pudong: Room 1303, Jin Ying Bld. 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For distribution requests, email uf@urbanatomy.com. www.urban-family.com 55 tiger father Halloween Hang-ups Are Ghosts and Gluttony a Treat or Trick? By Trevor Marshallsea P mum’s approach in his childhood. Her rule was that all candy not consumed by November 1 would be donated away. The result was he and his siblings ate themselves ill each Halloween night, and their zeal for the occasion diminished each year. art of the joy of moving your family to China is to experience first-hand the rites and rituals of a fascinating culture that’s very foreign to your own. Like Halloween. Now, strictly speaking this may not be part of China’s fabled 5,000 years of Chineseness. Confucius mentioned honoring thy father and thy mother, but I’ve checked and he doesn’t say a lot about dressing like a headless ghoul and demanding sweets. Maybe he should have, because it’s fun. A lot more fun than all that austerity business. No, this month we’ll be celebrating Halloween as one of the things to enjoy from some of the other cultures in the melting pot of Expatland. My family hasn’t always felt this way. We were notorious Halloween hold-outs. I should point out that by ‘my family’ I mean my wife and me. We virtually had to hold daughters Lani and Evie back on strained leashes during our first two China Halloweens. So we finally embraced Halloween. Last year I even dressed up for a family party. I wore a rainbowstriped hat, a fake moustache and a pair of glasses with fake eyes painted on (with sky-blue eye-shadow). We virtually had to hold our daughters back on strained leashes during our first two China Halloweens make-up of half Australian on my mother’s side and half grumpy old man on my dad’s. Surely enough American culture has pervaded our own. Besides, we have our own rites and celebrations. We parents sat smugly at home in our conscientious objection – my wife probably knitting and me reading a very large newspaper in an armchair while smoking a pipe. The kids did what any kid would do knowing that outside was a world of free candy and dress-up. You can still see their scratch marks on the door. Coincidentally, the biggest one falls only a few days after Halloween. It’s Melbourne Cup day, when the whole country stops what it’s doing to watch a horse race, and everyone from little kids to elderly nuns has a bet. You may ask if this is any more wholesome than dressing like the undead and demanding candy under threat of vandalism. I’ll concede it’s a photo finish. Our opposition stemmed from a couple of areas. On one hand Halloween did seem – how should I put it? – a vulgar, consumerist orgy paying homage to the patron saint of gluttony, whoever that chubbierthan-thou person was. In any event, our opposition to Halloween was viewed with horror by some of our new expat friends, particularly our American friend Stephanie. As far as observance of her country’s festivals goes, I’d describe her as a fundamentalist. And to me, it just didn’t feel like it was ‘our’ thing, due to my genetic She organized our compound’s trick or treating, and felt to deny 56 www.urban-family.com our girls Halloween was like denying them oxygen. Furthermore, in respect to the expat melting pot, I felt it would be unfair to embrace this foreign festival when I hadn’t embraced any others. At Ramadan I ate like a king, and not only did I atone for nothing at Yom Kippur, I probably just made it worse. But finally we parents cracked, owing, I’m afraid to say, to that enemy of parents worldwide: peer group pressure. We at least had some misgivings laid to rest by the knowledge that a lot of charities used Halloween as a major fund-raising event. We also learned from some seasoned American campaigners that when it comes to kids and their candy booty, there are such things as ‘moderating forces.’ Stephanie would hide her child’s stash and dish them out slowly, over time, and mostly to herself. Another cited his health-conscious People winced and said I looked scary. I thought that was the point, but most clarified that I was “disturbing,” as in (the type who shouldn’t be at a family function or within 500 meters of a school, if you catch my drift…) While we now do Halloween, I retain some vestiges of trenchant scrooge-ism. Kids coming to my door have to have made an effort to dress up, otherwise they go without. (Who ‘tricks’ these days anyway?) But I didn’t really apply those aforementioned moderating forces. Evie ate herself sick – due not to any deadline, but a father not paying attention. Lani imposed her own moderation. One incredulous American mum reported Lani had actually handed some candy back, saying she’d taken too much. Another Aussie kid opted to swap her sweets for cash with her parents to buy Legos. Maybe Australians can’t do Halloween properly after all. // Trevor Marshallsea was a foreign correspondent in Beijing in the 1990s and returned a decade later. This time around he stays at home to grow the kids. Read more of his domestic adventures at www.thetigerfather. com OPENING AUGUST 2014 WELLINGTON COLLEGE COMES TO SHANGHAI A Top Class British Education for 3-18 Year Olds • Partneredwiththeprestigious WellingtonCollegeintheUK • Academicexcellencebasedonourunique EightAptitudesmodelofeducation • Teacherswithexperienceoftop internationalandUKindependentschools • State-of-the-artfacilitiesandresources Now accepting applications for the 2014/2015 academic year Forfurtherdetails,pleasecall(+8621)20282966oremail:admissions@wellington-shanghai.cn www.wellington-shanghai.cn