street treats, small eats and other comfort foods of Shanghai and beyond
Posted in Shanghai on Jun 4th, 2007
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 […]
Posted in Shanghai on Mar 18th, 2007
In Googling around in search of whatever it was, I stumbled across an informational website for Shanghai with something different to offer a foodie. While websites listing or recommending all manner of eating places in Shanghai, it wasn’t until I discovered shanghaitown, a website rich in information for overseas students, that I ever saw a […]
Posted in Xiaolongbao, Shanghai on Mar 10th, 2007
My town, San Francisco, managed to get National Landmark Status declared for its cable cars, making them the only National Landmark on wheels. If San Francisco had invented xiaolongbao, I’d be the first in line lobbying for National Landmark Status for those, too: imagine being able to pop a National Landmark into your mouth!
The town […]
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 […]