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Shanghai Street Food #19 Cotton Candy: Miánhuā Táng 棉 花 糖
Blog : Life on Nanchang LuCotton candy? A Chinese street food? You'd betterbelieve it, Chinese people love cotton candy (miánhuā táng, orfairy floss, as we call it in Australia) and you can find cottoncandy vendors anywhere in Shanghai there's a large happy crowdgathered. Outside temples are favourite spots, and...
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Shanghai Factory Girls
Blog : Life on Nanchang LuAfter every trip awayShanghai feelsmore and more like home tome,and it was reallynice, aftermore than three weeks of roughing it, to getback to a comfortable bed and a cupboard full of exciting fooditems like English Breakfast tea and cereal. Shanghai suddenlyseems so cosmopolitan, with...
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Street Food of Lijiang: Bugs, Bark and Dragonfly Nymphs
Blog : Life on Nanchang LuDragonfly nymphs. Not your average snack food. The street foods of Yunnan have certainly been a surprise. For a start, in Yunnan they eat a whole lot of things that less adventurous foodies would consider inedible - fern fronds, tree bark, various flowers, lichens and bugs. Yes,...
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Shanghai Street Food #18 Puffed Corn Sticks: Yùmǐ Bàng 玉米棒
Blog : Life on Nanchang LuNow this is real street food. Coming home from the wetmarket this afternoon there was a small crowd gathering around this blue truck. This entrepreneurial husband and wife team had it all sorted - the back of their truck had become a temporary factory formaking corn sticks (yùmǐ bàng...
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The Shanghai Seafood Market
Blog : Life on Nanchang LuHow would you feel about choosingyour dinner while it's still alive? For me, it sort of goes against some deeply held moral food principle to point out exactly which creature I'd like to have killed for my supper. But when Iseriously, seriously ask myself whether I feel less guilt about...
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