Shanghai Bob

The food here has been uniformly cheap and delicious. We’ve had Mongolian shabu-shabu, Korean barbecue, spicy fried crawdads (or crawfish, or crayfish, depending on where you’re from), and Sichuan and Hunan food, which included spicy pig ear. Andrew commented that if you’ve eaten a hot dog, you’ve probably eaten a pig’s ear, but it is a different experience to eat something that looks like a pig’s ear.

Spicy crawdads

Yin-yang shabu-shabu

Among other amusing things, the menu at one restaurant says we can have squirrel for just 10 RMB more.

Many of the restaurants give you a package like a surgical kit with chopsticks, a straw, a plastic glove for eating with your hands and other utensils all bundled together.

At the shabu-shabu place, you can mix your own sauce.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 8:37 am and is filed under shanghai, travel.