Here are a few more spots that you guys might remember.
Shanghai
-Hard Rock Cafe
-New York, New York (previously mentioned)
-Jurassic Park (Maoming Road)
-I plugged "all of" Fuxing Park upthread, but the two highlights were the California Club (aka Park 97; younger sister of the place in LKF) and 钱柜 (a non kinky KTV joint)
-I somehow forgot Windows. There were several iterations, but the best one was in the sunken pit across the street from JA Temple
Beijing
-Hard Rock Cafe (they really liked that place)
-Henry J Beans
-the "Super Girl" cast and crew. They split their time between Changsha and the Capital, and we hung out at Kai (Gaolei was always accommodating)
-the SCMP had a Beijing bureau until about 2008; extremely smart people who had a great pulse on things
-"That's Beijing" which became "The Beijinger" for a while
-the Goose and Duck Ranch
-Fulicheng; everything south of Chang'an Jie used to be taboo because of poor 风水, but Fuli changed that perception in a big way. In particular, the dead end street about 600 meters east of 3rd Ring is a popular filming location