Some Fish Lips with your King Snake, Sir?
Marilyn June 13th, 2007
The best meals in Shanghai are not where you expect them to be, so be adventurous. Yes there are expensive western fusion restaurants (about the same cost as Australia), but you can also eat for almost nothing in Chinese cafes. Most have shortened English menus with photos of the food.
Some of the dishes though are only for the adventurous. Here are a few examples:
* Salt and pepper king snake
* Braised bullfrog legs, or tortoise in casserole
* Cows lungs soaked in chilli sauce
* Steamed rabbits ears or goats’ feet tendons
* Red stewed fish lips and shark mouth
… get the picture? MSG is alive and very well too, so if you have a sensitivity to this chemical you’re in real trouble. There is quite a lot of protocol involved if you are a guest at a restaurant, so my advice is to read carefully the Lonely Planet’s guide to China (or the slimmer version just on Shanghai).