Shanghai Bites:

I haven’t done much with this blog for a while, largely because I haven’t been to Shanghai since I began it, my travel demands being eastward (from here in San Francisco) to New York or Montreal these days, as I have fish to fry there. Hopefully, I finally will be back in Shanghai in the fall to chase down some more good eats. In the meantime, I accomplished something in a passive way, namely got myself published in slick new Shanghai guidebook. “Urbanantomy: Shanghai 2008″ was published in Shanghai on February 24, and is now available in the US from Amazon. The book runs to 600 pages, but two of those pages are special to me because I wrote them: page 354, which contains a full page box labeled “Shanghai Snacks” and page 356, which contains another full page box titled “Gary Soup’s Top Dining Spots”. (Sandwiched in between is a Hooters girl, that is, an ad for Hooters featuring a modestly-Hootered Hooters Shanghai girl — ah the fantasies!)