13.7.14

Shanghai

Almost one year has passed since I posted my last episode. As more and more people started to use Facebook to update their news to share, this blog has nearly been abandoned. However some of my friends have no intention to sign up for Facebook. By this very reason, I try to continue writing about my experience in foreign countries on this blog. I hope some people enjoy it.

If I remember correctly, my last visit in China was 2005. My Portuguese friend and his girlfriend at that time (now she is his wife and they have two children) were there, visiting her family in Shanghai. That was almost a decade ago. It seems to me that the city has developed rapidly with a steady economic growth. I witnessed that hundreds of Chinese people were bustling along the high street of the Bund where Western countries had opened banks on the riverside between 1920s and 1930s. Now, the place has turned into one of the main tourist spots for foreigners and shopping zone for wealthier Chinese citizen. Luxurious boutiques and restaurants are housed in those buildings. People enjoy a dramatic night.



 

Food

Frankly speaking, I had not enjoyed food in Shanghai in my last visit in Shanghai. Compared to Chinese dishes at a famous Chinese chef’s restaurant in Japan, I had previously found the food in Shanghai was awful. However, I believe this is something to do with a social status in people and society. In those days, China was still considered to be a poor country. I suspect that not many people cared about tastes in food. Time of cooking and amount of seasoning were not adequate. So, it was just good enough to fill stomachs but it was far from tastiness. Ingredients were chipped roughly into very different sizes and bigger pieces were not cooked sufficiently. So, heat did not reach the centre. Many dishes were almost impossible not to get hands dirty.

However, due to economic growth, people now have more disposal income. More people dine out to enjoy atmosphere and taste in a fashionable restaurant. The restaurant where I had lunch with my Chinese friend is a good example. The delicacy and quality is in dishes which we had. Maybe in a growing city of Shanghai, I won’t be disappointed with food again. I was thinking of going to some branches of famous Taiwanese and Hong Kong restaurants in Shanghai before I arrived there. But she chose a proper one. (I had a bitter experience of some of my friends’ selection from an infamous guidebook called “Lonely Planet” when I stayed in HK.)

 


Here I introduce one famous Shanghai dish called Huangzhou(紅焼肉/ホンシャオロウ) which is more widely known as dongporou or dongpo pork. Pork belly which contains a large portion of fat is chopped into 4 or 5 cubic centimetres and then pan-fried.

Afterwards chunks are simmered in a soy- based sauce for many hours until it gets soft and tender. Good Huangzhou is not very fatty. (Extra fat is removed during a long-hour cooking.)




Compared with Japanese-style Huangzhou, the colour is very dark and it is almost black. (Sorry about my poor photo skill. It doesn’t look as tasty as it actually is!)

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