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Volunteering in Shanghai Guide

Looking to make a difference in Shanghai? You’ve got plenty of options around town. Looking for a way to get more involved with the local community? These Shanghai-based charities are always looking for volunteers and have flexible programs, from a few hours a week helping elderly folks to breaking a sweat planting trees. Get involved with these communities in Shanghai and make a difference. Lifeline Shanghai Lifeline Shanghai operates an English-speaking helpline service for the international community. The volunteer-led helpline ...

Expats Holidays, Travel & Tours for Expats

Expats Holidays is a one-stop travel agency for expats based in China. We specialize in tailor-made tours for couples, families and groups. Committing to deliver the best value to our clients with tour options in over 27 countries and 90 destinations. How it started Our founder, Cathy a person who deeply understands how hard and inconvenient it is to travel to a foreign country, especially with children. After taking on personal challenge in Maldives‘s resort, she started a company in ...

Chopstick Etiquette in China

The do’s and don’ts and how not to offend anyone If you’ve moved to China from a country where forks and knives were the staple at your dining table, you’re probably not going to be very familiar with chopsticks. Figuring out the mechanics of getting them to work without accidentally flinging them across the table is hard enough, but there’s actually a host of do’s and don’ts associated with chopstick use. It’s important to learn the proper techniques and manners ...

Specialty Stores You Need To Survive Shanghai

Cheese, beer, hot sauce. That’s about it. Looking for a taste of home? How about a wheel of cheese to go with some craft beer? Here are four of our favorite specialty stores in Shanghai. If you haven’t dropped a pin on these locations, you’re not doing it right. Alimentari Address: 158 Anfu Lu (near Wulumuqi Zhong Lu) 安福路158号 (近乌鲁木齐中路) Tel: 5403-6991 Neighborhood favorite Feidan on Anfu Lu is no more. The imported goods mini mart has gotten a facelift, ...

Greenwave Shanghai – Water Filters, Air Purifiers & Green Plants

Shanghai Greenwave Enviro-tech Greenwave is a brand we established on March of 2010 which carries water filters, air purifiers and green plants as well as some other related products for healthy living and green home for residents living in Shanghai and neighbouring cities. Greenwave is a reliable and trustworthy brand for healthy water and air solutions with customer oriented service. From drinking water purifiers to shower filters, air purifiers to de-humidifiers, you will find your ideal filtration system to experience ...

Dealing with China culture shock

Flopping like a fish out of water Moving to China requires a lot of planning and preparation, and in the frenzy it’s easy to underestimate the stress of immersing oneself in Shanghai’s culture. We are all familiar with the idea of culture shock, but often don’t consider the depth and breadth of what it actually is, and how it can deeply affect us. There are four recognized stages: The Honeymoon Period With new things to experience – what that strange-looking ...

Five Reasons Not to get an Ayi in Shanghai

I’ve been living in China since 2006, and not once have I hired an ayi to clean my apartment. Not even for the day after my annual Christmas party, which crammed about 25 guests into my very small apartment this year. You might not be surprised to know that I am the only foreigner (or maybe the only person!) I know who has resisted the services of the counutry’s very affordable cleaning ladies—one friend even accused me of being selfish ...

Epermarket Shanghai – Your imported grocery expert

Epermarket is your imported grocery expert that carefully selects products and brands you miss, from a place you can trust. To guarantee our commitment to quality, each year we renew our ISO 9001 quality management certification and test our fresh products with SGS, the world’s leading inspection, verification and testing company. In addition, our warehouse has 5 different temperature-controlled storage rooms to make sure that every product is stored in the appropriate conditions in order to optimize its quality. Whether ...

SPAWash Shanghai laundry service and high quality dry cleaning

SPAwash offers high quality dry cleaning and laundry service, along with specialty cleaning for items such as suede, leather, couture fashion and ballgowns, household items and rugs, shoes and more. Your cleaning is serious business and it’s our mission to make sure that you are completely satisfied. As part of our ongoing committment to our customers, SPAwash offers the following points of difference: Ten point quality check including replacement of buttons and minor repairs Saves time with free delivery (SVC ...

Teaching English in Shanghai and problems being a foreign educator in China

For Teachers with experience in schools in other parts of the world, there are some things that stand out immediately in the Chinese classroom. Perhaps the most obvious one of these is the lack of consequences of a child “fails” a grade. From what I have come to understand is the policy of the educational administration of Shanghai, “holding back” a child based on lack of achieving a minimum passing score is not done. This could be a problem of ...

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