The BEST episodes of Blossoms Shanghai
Every episode of Blossoms Shanghai ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Blossoms Shanghai!
In 1990s Shanghai, fortunes are waiting to be made—but not everyone can be a winner. A sprawling cast of stockbrokers, entrepreneurs, restaurateurs, bureaucrats, schemers, and dreamers ride the wave of market reform in the wake of the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s historic reopening. At the center is the daring self-made trader Ah Bao, whose increasingly risky maneuvers intertwine his fate with those of three women, each with her own ambitions. Luxuriating in Shanghai’s food, fashion, and language, the story unfolds as an exuberant love letter to the city—an intoxicating epic tinged with romanticism.
#1 - Hong Kong Blues
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/2024
Ling Zi remains absent, prompting Mr. Bao to reminisce about when he first met her in Tokyo four years earlier. In Ling Zi’s absence, her friends haplessly try to keep Tokyo Nights going. The past still heavy upon him, Mr. Bao goes to do business in Hong Kong. There he meets Xuezhi, the woman who broke his heart, and is surprised by what he discovers.
#2 - Silence Reigns
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 1/9/2024
The world we’ve been watching has been totally changed since Episode 1. The suddenly successful Miss Wang returns to Shanghai to find that Mr. Bao has moved out of his fancy hotel suite, Li Li has settled her debts and left town, and Ling Zi is moving to Hong Kong to open a second restaurant. The three women most important to Mr. Bao are moving on. As for him, the early gold-rush days are over, and a new era is beginning.
#3 - Thank You
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 1/9/2024
The final showdown: While Mr. Bao desperately seeks a way to escape intact from the stock market, his estranged friends Tao Tao and Ling Zi make peace without him. Qiang keeps pushing, and Mr. Bao throws a Hail Mary pass that is answered—in a way.
#4 - Gone With The Wind
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 1/8/2024
Uncle Ye and Mr. Bao come to an understanding. The latter steels himself for another skirmish with Qiang, who is working ruthlessly to cut off Mr. Bao’s capital sources.
#5 - Kindness of Strangers
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 1/8/2024
Miss Wang scores her first big success, outwitting everyone to win the Walmart contract. Learning of his first love’s death, Mr. Bao looks for company. With Ling Zi and Miss Wang out of his life, he and Li Li share a New Year’s Eve dinner where they exchange memories.
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#6 - Shenzhen
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 1/7/2024
Miss Wang heads south to find a factory that will make jeans cheaply enough to win the order. Against his own interests, Mr. Bao secretly helps her.
#7 - One Only Loses
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 1/7/2024
Things get deadlier. After stock-market losses, Mei Lin’s debt-ridden husband dies in a fall. Li Li mortgages the Grand Lisbon to fund Mr. Bao. Miss Wang begins looking for garment factories for the Walmart deal, while Uncle Ye works to block her. As Li Li strikes deals to keep Mr. Bao afloat, a powerful businesswoman from Taiwan gets involved.
#8 - No Shortcuts
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 1/6/2024
Across town, Miss Wang begins competing with Mr. Bao to win a huge order for jeans with Walmart. While Uncle Ye and Miss Wang jockey to get the Walmart order, Mr. Bao and Qiang begin a stock-market battle that leads to a crash.
#9 - Minutes
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 1/6/2024
Qiang and Bao have dinner at the Grand Lisbon and wind up bigger enemies than before. Each backs a rival company that’s fighting for the only government-approved slot to launch an IPO.
#10 - Pushkin
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 1/5/2024
Ling Zi reopens Tokyo Nights as a Shanghainese omakase and wins immediate success. Over on Huanghe Road, the Grand Lisbon falls into chaos when Li Li is held for questioning by the police. Again, Mr. Bao helps save the day.
#11 - Point of No Return
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/5/2024
When Qiang attempts a hostile takeover of a Shanghainese company, Mr. Bao forms a pact with Li Li...money for information. Mr. Bao and Li Li’s employees profit off of Qiang’s bid, but collateral damage forces the police to descend on Qiang and the Grand Lisbon.
#12 - Only Catfish Eat Meat
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/4/2024
Amid a flurry of corporate intrigue, Mr. Bao starts ramping up his plans to stop the unethical Qiang from becoming the big dog in town. Qiang has a personal score to settle: he was once in love with Ling Zi before she left Tokyo to work with Mr. Bao.
#13 - Cadillac
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/4/2024
As Ling Zi renovates Tokyo Nights, she remembers how she and Mr. Bao built the restaurant together. Miss Wang and Mr. Wei prepare for their company’s opening banquet. Mr. Bao makes mistakes, personal and financial.
#14 - Shanghainese
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/3/2024
The distancing continues. Planning to overhaul Tokyo Nights, Ling Zi goes to the Grand Lisbon for research. Miss Wang decides to open her own business...with no help from Mr. Bao. She throws a disastrous launch party that lands her an unexpected partner, the goofy Mr. Wei. Like a gunslinging outlaw, Mr. Qiang arrives in Shanghai from Shenzhen, with sights set on the local stock market...and Mr. Bao.
#15 - Slap In The Face
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/3/2024
The two reliable women in Mr. Bao’s life begin distancing themselves from him. Ling Zi returns to Shanghai full of resolve and dissolves her business partnership with him. Mr. Bao oversteps by providing Miss Wang with unwanted help upon her return to Huanghe Road.
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#16 - 8.8 Seconds
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/27/2023
The year was 1992, Shanghai was aflood with neon lights, seas of flowers, and bustling streets filled with cars and horses as people hurriedly rushed around. Abao, gift in hand, visited a retired writer. Still fueled with passion for writing, the elderly writer was in the midst of writing a novel. Curious, Abao asked about the contents, but the writer hadn't quite figured it out yet. It is here that our story starts.
#17 - Ginza Night Club Rie
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/2024
When the leadership changes at the department store he’s been supplying with product, Mr. Bao must seek out new allies...and sources of profit.
#18 - Flower of Route
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/2024
Mr. Bao’s romantic past and present collide. While Miss Wang gets bullied at the factory where she’s been reassigned and Ling Zi remains missing, Mr. Bao flashes back to his passion for Xuezhi, a beautiful ticket-taker on a local bus, whose rejection of him turned him into the man he is today.
#19 - 1987
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/2024
Miss Wang’s fall has repercussions at Tokyo Nights, where Ling Zi’s role in what happened breeds discord in the place that Mr. Bao thinks of as his refuge. The funny, friendly world of Tokyo Nights explodes in anger and recriminations that Mr. Bao can’t fix.
#20 - Pearl Earnings
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/31/2023
Over at the Foreign Trade Office, Miss Wang’s success has spawned envy and led a shifty colleague to smear her, twisting a well-intentioned gift from Mr. Bao into evidence of accused bribery.
#21 - King of Nanjing Road
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/2023
As Mr. Bao’s relationship with Li Li deepens, his friend Tao Tao finds himself knee-deep in romantic calamity.
#22 - Who Is Mr. A?
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/30/2023
With the help of Uncle Ye, Mr. Bao thwarts the attack on the Grand Lisbon so successfully that the restaurant sets Huanghe Road abuzz with talk of its famous new dishes. Mr. Bao is now at his triumphant peak. What could possibly go wrong?
#23 - Snakes On Fire
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/30/2023
With Miss Wang's help, Abao and Little Ningbo eventually cut a big deal that laid the foundation for their future success at 27 The Bund. Li Li came to ask a favor from Abao. The latter decided to lend her a hand.
#24 - No. 27 On The Bund
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/29/2023
Little Jiangxi was called back to Jinmeilin as the captain. Abao cut a deal with Mr. Ma to formalize his products. Miss Wang decided to rush to Abao after knowing his whereabouts.
#25 - Zhuji
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/29/2023
The restaurant owners of Huanghe Road designed a conspiracy against Zhizhenyuan. Abao was planning to control the knockoffs before they caused any effects.