Shanghai Bites:

I’ve been preoccupied with a number of projects, including drafting a piece on Shanghai xiao chi for an upcoming guidebook, taking care of some health issues, and planning my annual New York - Montreal turnaround trip, so I haven’t posted lately. One of my projects in the works is to start adding come content pages to this blogsite, and one of the first is going to be a guide and portal to various videos on the web of Shanghai street eats being prepared and sold. It was the one below, posted on YouTube by “sunnata” that made me realize that YouTube had a higher and better use than just plain vanity and dumb silliness. It was shot near the Shanghai Uiversity of Finance and Economics, but the goody in question is identical in manufacture and ingredients to the jian bing (or dan bing, as Shanghainese like to call them) vendor’s work near our Hongkou apartment, over on the Tongji side of the Universities district. Enjoy!