50 Ways To Tell If You are a Shanghai Party Pro
How do you know if you are a seasoned Shanghai pro? Easy! Here is our epic list bucket list of things you should experience if you partied like a King or Queen.
1: Survived a Wednesday night at Zapata’s
Kudos to you if you ever danced on the bar
2: Getting your name on the wall at M1nt
3: Jacuzzi Dip at VUE Bar
4: WET Bar swim
5: Gone on a Booze Cruise
6: Moshed
Photo: Scoopnest.com
7: Went to a MVP Girls Night Out at Bar Rouge
Photographer: Pavel Shubskiy
8: Partook in a Pub Crawl (extra creds if you ever done Beer Run)
Photo source: pubcrawlshanghai.com
9: Partied at Found 158
High five if you ever partied on Yong Kang Lu, Maoming Lu or Fuxing Park
10: Partied at Mansion
11: Party with Beer Lady at her shop
12: Party on the streets: Shaanxi, Wuding, Donghu
13: Stumble out of Hollywood/Lola at 8am
14: Walked home because of no taxi or Didi (Especially on New Year's Eve)
15. 6am breakfast at Bi Feng Tang
When you go there to eat, it’s dark. When you are ready to leave, it’s bright.
16. Go to Chun K to eat, then sing
17. After hour eats at Hakkasan or Mr. & Mrs. Bund
18: Visited the private room of Le Baron
19: Been to all the speakeasies
Bunker
Shanghai has a thing for the hidden bar. Speak Low, Sober Society, Magnolia Room, Dry Goods, Bunker, Barber Shop, Shrine, Keep it Quiet...
20: Gone to all the Shanghai winners of Asia's Top 50 Bars
Speak Low at #2 in 2016 and 2017 for Asia’s Top 50 Bars and #15 in World’s 50 Best Bars in 2016
21: Seen a sunrise at the Bund, after a long night out
Photo source: f/13 photography
22: Late night street eats
23: Partied at the Bund from end to end
You have gone to every watering hole from Char bar to VUE Bar
24: Drank at all 3 Cafe Des Stagiaires
Extra points if you been to the original on Yongkang Lu and for saying the name with an accent francaise
25: Drank at all 7 Constellations
This is Constellation 6, it opened last year on Fengyang Lu
26: Know of and been to all of Muse groups
27: Partied at the skybars of Lujiazui
28: Have a favorite Family Mart
29: Have been shushed for being too loud on the street
30: Gone to one too many beer festivals
31: When you have gotten into fights over which bars have the best drinks
32: You know Perry's, Helen's, C's and Windows
Extra props if you ever ate there, and at Perry's, finished a Rum and Coke bucket
33: Alcohol Delivered to Your Home (Bottle XO, Tippler)
34: Attempted the 12 Beer Challenge at Boxing Cat
If you accomplished this feat, you are definitely party royalty.
35: Never needed membership to enter elite clubs like BU and Kee Club
You also don't need to be on a guestlist to get in anywhere either! Your face is the one that can open all doors.
36: VIP invitations to elite events eg. Fashion Week
37: Weekend begins with Boozy Brunch at one of the fancy 5 star hotels
Westin Hotel is one of the first to introduce the champagne brunch
38: Won't get lost at Reel 2 Reel
39: Know that Manhattan is not in New York
40: Know where to get food at 3am
41: Know all the day drinking spots
42: Been to Hakkatini night at Hakkasan
43: Been on the motorcycle tuk tuk
44: Don't leave the house till 12am
45: Can get a last minute table at NEST
46: Make it out of Mr. X
47: You pop so many bottles, you can distinguish real and fake alcohol
48: Have tried and succeeded the 100 shot challenge at Blue Frog
49: Can say cheers in more than 2 languages
With so many people of different nationalities, you can say cheers in many languages, not including Mandarin or Shanghainese.
50: Juice Cleanse
Like every party pro, at the end of the night you have claimed to never drink again. And, to show you are a man/woman of your word have done a juice cleanse to cleanse away the guilty conscience of the torture your liver goes through.
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