Edible Shanghai

Cooking class. Karis refused to de-bone her chicken.

This is for roasting the tea at a very low temperature.

Our tea merchant and instructor on teas. After we tried a tea, the rest of the tea was pored over a three legged pottery frog on the tea table for good luck. The tea table drains to a bucket
underneath the table so water and tea can be pored right onto the frog and then in drains away.

The stems are being separated from the dried tea leaves.

One of the highlights of the tour, for me, was the visit to a tea wholesaler mall. We spent quite a bit of time in one of the stores where we were treated to a variety of teas and told about them, how to make them, and introduced to the proper way to make tea. Almost all of them were good for dieting ;) We left with some very good tea of the varieties that we liked.

At this street vendor, you pick out the vegetables and then they cook up a soup for you.

OK--so Kentucky Fried Chicken was not on our tour, but we did see the bike delivery packs.

These were really good!

This man is making noodles. He has a thick piece of dough and all of a sudden he spins it and twists it and it turns into thin noodles. You see some of the cooked noodles we then ate.

These are a typical breakfast--think dough with egg and sauce.

Looks like dumplings, but we ate so many places, I can't remember!

These are called Beijing pizzas.

We went on an "edible Shanghai" tour which involved trying the food of local street vendors all day long! And we finished with a cooking class. This was a great way to get a feel for the city and local hangouts.