street treats, small eats and other comfort foods of Shanghai and beyond
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2007
No, this is not something Michael Ohlsson (”Weird Meat”) missed. It’s a Yankee-style hot dog place, and the weirdest thing about it is its location: the northeast corner of People’s Square, near the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center. I tried the dog last December, when I took the picture. There […]
Posted in Xiaolongbao, Shanghai on Feb 24th, 2007
From China Daily, January 11, 2007:
Disappointed xiao long bao aficionados will find that the venerable Jia Jia Tang Bao is no longer located at Henan Nan Lu and Wenmiao Lu, where it stood for many years, dishing out near-perfect soup dumplings to long lines of lunch patrons before the neighborhood was demolished.Happily, […]
In searching for a particular dish I wanted to try in Shanghai (I’ll leave it to you to guess), I stumbled across Weird Meat, a blog by reformed vegan Michael Ohlsson. It’s such a gem I can’t believe it hasn’t come to my attention before. Michael’s a former San Franciscan, a current Shanghai resident and […]