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Old Shanghai (Part II)- "the restaurant experience"
| 06 July 2010
China has been great to me so far… We went to this restaurant in old Shanghai (post street snacking.. poor Lassie). It was beautiful… nobody in the joint spoke a lick of English-so we pretty much had the luck of faith! One of the chefs that was with me had on some Australian board shorts and sure enough a familiar dialect was heard. Someone jumped in after we had ordered about half the food- it was the voice of a Chinese guy saying that he studied in Kangaroo nation for 10 years- and how could he help us order….
Now we were really in business! We went from pointing at a few pictures, drawing a pigs face on the back of the servers guest check book (to let her know we wanted some pork), to just plain rolling the dice. Not even remembering what we had ordered up to this point we just let this new found friend finish out our order.
In the matter of 3 minutes the table starting filling up dumplings, pancakes, hot pots, noodles, soups, and stir fried goodness
I would mention the name of this delectable establishment but 95% of this area is only written in Chinese characters… so we’ll just go with “one block down from the fabric buildings”.
"Hot Dog"
| 05 July 2010
Hot diggity DOG...
Well, not much to say on this matter but just had to "When in China..."
PS- No joke, it tastes like chicken!
Old Shanghai (Part I)
| 05 July 2010
After arriving and seeing a few things around the Expo Site I was dying for some real Shanghai… you know the image we all have of China! Let’s forget about the giant Trinitrons and flashing lights- let’s get back to the basics… fabric markets, street food, and wild dogs roaming around (then cooked on a stick for you..)!
Well, lucky to say I have met an excellent chef here- who was given the job of making sure I got settled in. (sounds dangerous)So needless to say we have become friends and from Day 1, and has shown me the starter ropes of Shanghai! Enough to say hello, thank you, and a few other things that can only lead one to get hitched or in big trouble- thanks for the lessons in Mandarin!
The real China that every chef is craving for… I had a friend (another chef) visit me from the States who’s general plan was to see Shanghai- I agreed but in trade he was going to have to help me in the kitchen… (… so much for that vacation he thought he was about to have!)Guys this post is dedicated to the good times we had in OLD Shanghai… what’s actually left of the 200 year old French Colony.
Not sure what was better- the street food or the 18 items we ordered at the restaurant (no English on the menu… yes, a major crap shoot in what was coming out..)
