On the street: Shanghai snacks

November 10, 2010

The best thing about Shanghai for us was just strolling the streets, and clapping eyes on a new kind of street food stall every day. Lots of snack foods are sold from carts and barrows, and others from shops with windows into the street. Gives new meaning to the term ‘fast food’ – while there are lots of regrettable imports (think Subway and Domino’s Pizza, for sobbing out loud), these stalls are extremely popular with Shanghai locals and lots of anglos too. The several kinds of breakfast pancake were our particular faves as we strolled in the early morning to check out the 7am park life (thousands of people doing their own thing – from tai chi to fan dancing to shuttlecock, parks are a blur of colour and movement in China in the mornings). Here are a few of our favourite street food things …. if you click on the photo you’ll get a larger version and a wee description. And hopefully if Hamish manages to drop in he might tell us more about these morsels he gets to try every day, the lucky devil.

Next post, hopefully some street food video!

Posted in countries, dips & snacks, fast food, street food, Uncategorized | Tagged Shanghai street food |

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That breakfast pancake looks amazing!
by Stephanie November 14, 2010 at 8:29 pm

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THanks kids – it was indeed. I’m just going to post some video so you can see how those pancake babies are made …..
by Charlotte November 15, 2010 at 10:56 am

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