{"id":285822,"date":"2010-10-25T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingapp15670.cloudwayssites.com\/shanghai"},"modified":"2010-10-25T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T07:33:00","slug":"shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingapp15670.cloudwayssites.com\/en\/shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nCosmopolitan and ultra-modern city, Shanghai is also attractive for its culinary specialties, of which “xiao long bao” and “siu mai” are part… It is impossible for me to show everything that exists, so I am content as usual to present you what I could cross. I also took the opportunity to go to the World Fair. You will discover the streets of the city center and its small shops and a restaurant that I really liked in the old French concession! <\/div>\n
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\nAs soon as I arrived in Shanghai, I rushed to a restaurant called “Shi Wei Guan”. I had already mentioned a chain restaurant (which I don’t usually like!!) in the Hong Kong trip. It was “Din Tai Fung”, a real wonder… There are also some in Shanghai, but I had forgotten this other chain, much more modest. The food is more than adequate, however, especially for a hungry, offbeat stomach!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nThey propose a giant xiao long bao…! The inside is filled with crab soup. How do they coat a soup with dough? This one is probably still frozen when this giant ravioli is made…<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nIt is impossible to come to Shanghai without tasting at least once small xiao long bao. It’s when even from this city they come from!!! These are orange but it’s mostly to differentiate the stuffing…<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nAnd as always when I come to China, “har gow”, these shrimp ravioli that come from Canton. But Shi Wei Guan’s are huge!!! And well filled with shrimps…<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nAnd like at Din Tai Fung, vegetable ravioli… Each time I am in awe of these perfect folds.<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nAfter this appetizer, it is time to rest and to attack a visit of the city from the early morning!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nThe city center (where I stayed) is not completely representative of China. But no doubt about it!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nThere are many products that I don’t know yet, mysterious sweets that will remain…exotic!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nIn the streets of Shanghai, you can still find vendors with their sales on their bikes. I rushed to follow him…<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nThe butchers’ district in Shanghai is fun to visit, although the smell can sometimes become heady, but I really like the time-worn wooden sections. They are forbidden in France for a question of hygiene, but I like very much this raw side of wood!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nI must admit that I haven’t tried these skewers yet, but they are obviously a big hit!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nIn the stores, lots of very interesting things, like these dried sea cucumbers… I leave them to you…!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nIt is impossible to come to Shanghai in 2010 without visiting the World Expo… In the cab, you can admire the futuristic side of this city… <\/i><\/div>\n
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\nI spent hours in the World’s Fair, but I can guarantee that it was extremely exhausting! It’s a crazy world out there. I took lots of pictures, the pavilions competing for ideas. But in the end I didn’t really buy into it all. Fortunately, there is something to reassure me with restaurants everywhere. <\/i><\/div>\n
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\nThey offer all sorts of specialties, but we often find ourselves falling back on things that are starting to look familiar! <\/i><\/div>\n
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\nI didn’t buy anything, I just took some pictures while passing by, people looking at me strangely…<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nBut for me, the Chinese popular cuisine (no pun intended…) is of an infinite richness and only in this “food court” of the Expo, the restaurants propose a phenomenal quantity of dishes!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nBack to downtown Shanghai and its stores with products that are new to me! Like these big pieces of dried fish. Everything is there, the skin, the bones….<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nAnother specialty from China, swallows’ nests which are often eaten in soup. The nest is in the middle of the false nest of straw. The price for this kind of food is excessively high. It is indeed risky to catch these nests on top of cliffs… Note also that they are not swallows, but a subspecies of swift that secretes an edible mucilaginous mucus. <\/i><\/div>\n
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\nIt’s time for me to get ready for the last dinner… An opportunity to enjoy “Shanghai by night”. I didn’t even take my camera when I went to the bund… Next time!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nAnd finally my table is ready and my dishes arrive. As an appetizer, a crepe with wild herbs. A real delight. <\/i><\/div>\n
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\nAnd especially this really delicious dish. I was at the table with a pen and paper to write down all the flavors I could recognize and I’m about to make this recipe. The dish is a beef with 7 flavors. A tender beef (bicarbonate…!!) with coriander, mint, parsley, cardamom, galanga… As soon as I can reproduce it, I put it on the site! I promise!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nAnd the restaurant even offered me a dessert! I don’t know if it was out of pity, because I was eating alone, or because I was taking pictures. I told them it was for my site and that I was going to write about them… I will never know! In any case it was frozen coconut milk with fresh fruit and colored tapioca… Refreshing!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nMy recipes related to this trip: (click on the name to access it)<\/i><\/div>\n
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