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Finally motivated to check out this Yakitori spot we’ve been eyeing for awhile. Japanese food is surprisingly good in Shanghai and this place is top notch

Potato Salad with Cherry Tomatoes and Raisins. Yes, raisins. Egg yolk sprinkles to seal the deal. And bacon on the side to mix in yourself.

Tsukune, chicken meatballs with a surprise quail egg inside. This begs the question – Which came first the chicken or the egg?

And tender & delicious Oxtail.

This is one place I’d rather keep to myself, but here’s a hint. More on PhatSH.com

These ladies just got in last night. Meet Heather and Ilene, collectively known as iLeather., originally uploaded by thedrun.

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I’m feeling very unoriginal today so I’m gonna steal this line from my friend Rok. R.I.P. Oh-Nine!

It’s been a very trying year. I hope that 2010 brings us all a lot
MORE inspiration, creativity, productivity, success, sense of
achievement, self-confidence, patience, understanding, consideration
for others, love and togetherness — and a whole lot LESS death,
negativity, detachment, jealousy, animosity, contempt, back-stabbing,
blatant opportunism, self-doubt, self-destruction, selfishness,
procrastination, over-thinking, frustration, and crappy weather. All
in favor of a happier new year, say “AYE…”

Sushi Oyama is my favorite restaurant in Shanghai. It only seats 14, and each piece of dishware is different. The result is a completely unique sushi experience. It helps that the fish is air flown from Tokyo daily.

Recently, I took my girl there for her bday. This rice dish from the Omakase was superb and fun mixing it

Mr. Oyama likes getting to know his customers and making things they’ll appreciate. He took it a notch and made us this UniBomb! Minced toro, Uni, Salmon Roe, and a Quail Egg topped over rice mixed with the house-made soy sauce and wasabi. Too good and definitely worth blogging about. Mmmmm

El Willy has done it again. El Coctel is a welcome new edition to the french concession, where I live in Shanghai.

El Willy is a crazy, spanish guy who has on the best restaurants in the hai, a tapas joint of the same moniker. El Coctel is his new bar inspired by his local places in Barcelona.

Upscale with a sense of humor. Nice lighting, big windows, good vibes.

This place could give NYC a run for its money. Quality cocktails. They even make control the temperature of their ice. The catch, NYC prices too!

It’s all in the details baby. Congrats to Marty & El Willy! Will def be coming back here alot.

Been eyein this for awhile and randomly got my hands on it (Thanks Anton). It’s an awesome little book going through Hiroshi Fujiwara’s favorite things collected through the years. As he says in the beginning, he’s not a collector, he’s a connoisseur. Everything he has, he wears at least once. I can respect that.

Ladies, if you’re looking for a gift for your man this X’mas. Something that may make him a little classier, pay a little more attention to detail, and appreciate the little things, keep an eye out for this gem.

Our PDX fam just rebooted our global site, wk.com. This time, it’s all about Content with a capital C. Peep WKE (W+K Entertainment), our arts & culture, original content platform headed up by Aaron Rose (Beautiful Losers). Welcome to Wieden+Kennedy.

We are a full-service, creatively driven advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon. We have offices all around the world, including Amsterdam, London, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai and Delhi. On this site you will find regularly updated samples of each office’s latest work, headlines aggregated from each of our blogs, and branded and original content from our entertainment group, WKE. And most importantly, you’ll find our people—not just their names and titles, but what they do, what they’re into and how they’ve contributed to making this agency great. Feel free to comment on the work you see and please visit often. We promise the site will never be the same twice.

http://www.wk.com

These guys are all probably high-up salarymen or Yakuza now, but back in the day, they were setting the scene for the first Ivy Look style tribe in Japan. I love this photo of a crew on the cusp. They know they have something no one else can touch, for the moment. For the Miyuki-zoku, that moment lasted from the summer of ‘64 to their downfall that same September. Read more on on Ivy Style.

A little bit a luck, a lot of hard work, and some fun along the way. My trip to W+K’s headquarters in Portland was a huge motivational kick-in-the-ass.

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