Homemade Chinese Zongzi

Ingredients

• About 22 large bamboo leaves, soaked in hot water for four hours until pliable
• Uncolored string (cut into 8 inch pieces)
• 2 pounds of glutinous rice (aka sticky rice)
• 3.5 pounds of fatty pork (pork butt or pork belly work well)
• 1 cup of light soy sauce
• 1 large handful of scallions
• 2 tablespoons of sugar, to taste
• Shaoxing rice wine, to taste

Method

• For the filling, dice your fatty pork into roughly 1 inch cubes and marinate for two hours in a half cup of soy sauce plus scallions. Meanwhile, rinse your uncooked glutinous rice, add soy sauce to taste.
• Cut the strings for tying the zongzi.
• In a wok, add oil and brown your pork, adding more soy sauce, Shaoxing rice wine and sugar to taste.
• Put the cooked meat in a bowl and let cool. Reserve the liquid and mix in with the rice.
• Make sure there are no holes in any of your bamboo leaves. Grab one bamboo leaf, and cut off its stem. Make a cone using the bottom of the leaf. Make sure the tip of the cone is sealed. Add a few spoonfuls of rice. When you get to the center of your zongzi, add two or three chunks of meat. Use a single chopstick to get the rice into the corners of the zongzi. Using a spoon, spoon more rice over the pork into the cone until it is almost full. Leave a 5cm gap unfilled so the rice will have room to expand.
• Fold the remaining part of the leaf over the top of the cone and wrap the rest tightly around the zongzi. Then tie a piece of string all around the zongzi. 
• Boil for about 40 minutes and enjoy.

Late night dining spots

Last time I have introduced about some best clubs in Shanghai. Image you've drank and danced and drank and partied and drank till you can drink no more. And then you must eat. Shanghai happily indulges by providing a plethora of restaurants open into the wee hours of the morning.

1. Bao Luo

This restaurant located just around the corner from one of Shanghai’s most pulsating local nightclubs, Bar 88, it’s a nice sit-down alternative to the area’s questionable street food stalls and beggars with monkeys. The shēngjiān mántou, or fried buns stuffed with pork, are the size of a fist and sprinkled with sesame seeds on the crispy bottom for extra crunch. Stir-fried black pepper beef might be labeled “Swiss” on the menu, but the wok-thrown slices of tender meat with a mayo dipping sauce are Shanghainese through and through. 
Address: 271 Fumin Lu, near Changle Lu
Telephone: +86 21 5403 7239 
Hours: 11:30am-3:30pm; 5pm-3am

2. Shouning Lu 

This street is famous for its seafood and stewed crayfish dishes, which are available in three different spice levels, making for a late-night marriage made in heaven when paired with a cold Tsingtao beer. There are many options on the one-block street, most of which are open until 4 a.m.
Address: 45 Shouning Lu, near Xizang Lu 
Hours: noon-6am 

3. Er Guang Hundun

The Pang family has been slinging dumplings to feed the nocturnal scene in Xintiandi for the past 16 years, and shows no signs of slowing down. Lines of a dozen or more people frequently queue up for a to-go container of the signature pork and Chinese mustard green dumplings (芥菜肉混沌, jiècài ròu hùndùn), which swim in a finger-lickingly chopstick-suckingly amazing peanut sauce. 
Address: 209-214 Zhaozhou Lu, near Hefei Lu 
Hours: 6:30pm-3:30am 

Best night clubs in Shanghai

1. Linx

Linx Royal Member’s Club is the newest club in the city.  This club owned by Hong Kong super star Nicholas Tse. Here’s your chance to party it up with all his fans.  Before you go, catch up on his movies and albums so you can chat some girls up.
Venue Address: 2F 98 Huaihai Zhong Road


2. M2

Located on the 4th floor of the well known Hong Kong Plaza M2 has became the number 1 international club to party at. Its excellent mix of western and Chinese style ensures that everyone feels at home. As far as clubs in Shanghai go, M2 has generous dancelfoor space and often hosts some of the worlds biggest names in music, such as Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Tiesto and so on. If your in Shanghai, you simply must have a night at M2.
Venue Address: 4/F, 283 Huai Hai Zhong Lu, near Huangpi Nan Lu (Hong Kong Plaza)
Phone: 6288 6222

3. M1NT

Mint is Shanghai's premium membership Club sporting a high class cocktail Lounge, and separate Club section.Views from the outside terrace are nothing short of spectacular, as is the long shark tank that graces the clubs entryway. The restaurant is modern with delicious food and dishes, and the club's  always packed with beautiful people., extra  private access for VIPs, and priority given for members, but usually open to all.

Venue Address:24/F, 318 Fuzhou Lu,near Shandong Lu
Phone:6391 2811