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msittig
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There is a small one block long road off of S tˇbet rd. A block South of Huaihai lu. All little shops both sides of the street. Night time everyone opens a stall out front. Its been there for years. Anyone know the name of the street?
Me likey. About a 15 minute walk east from Xintiandi. A good place to walk it off, get a snack and go back for round two. |
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I was going to mention this one back when the thread was young, but couldn't remember the exact location and wasn't sure if it was still "alive". Good to hear that street food is still do-able in the downtown.
I hear that Yunnan Rd (also in the People's Square neighborhood) is similar to Huanghe Rd in style. |
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SnappySammy
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I don't care for Beijine...However it has some realy good Street Food....and it has some City that is forbiddon for something... |
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jasonnoguchi
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bbc74
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Oct 29, 2009 - 01:12 PM |
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Or some of your ex-girlfriends maybe? Woof Woof |
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skaaght
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| bbc74 you must be immune to every bacertrium and virus on earth. I've got a strong stomach, but after eating street food every now and then the next morning feels like armageddon. |
Could just be that the only way you will eat street food is if you have had a bit too much to drink - and the drink causes your morning sickness |
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JyBravo70
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When I hear street vendor food I think of those people with carts that bake things on the spot or at subway stops cooking lamb and chicken on a stick. As dusty and windy as it is here I refuse to eat anything cooked out in the open next to a road, unless you like licking the street, same thing. I tried some street food in South America in the '90's basically, don't ask what it is. Only time its good is when youre hammered and its 3am.
Y'all are far braver then I for sampleing such things, I'll stick with restrauants and places with a license to serve food and some hope of getting inspected once a decade. |
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SnappySammy
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You rerally dont understand China, if you think Street Food in China is anything like South America.....Some of the best food I've ever eaten was from a Chinese Street Vendor .....Guangzhou has Fabulous Street food.....From My experience so does Shanghai....I would like to find all of the streets that sell street food... |
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tihZ_hO
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I understand China, "The secret is in the oil"
Many street vendors who cook snacks (especially fried foods) may use “slop oil” to save money and keep their costs low.
Slop oil? What's that?
Slop oil is “refined” from slop or swill, which is the leftover “food” that people and restaurants throw away.
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http://www.chinasmack.com/pictures/recycled-slop-swill-cooking-oil/
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brout
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C'mon, I'm sure we all already have eaten food cooked with that kind of oil. Probably without noticing...
We can never know, and better not be afraid otherwise we'll end up eating at McDo's (maybe some employees there steal the regular oil and cook your food with slop oil ).
My fav food street is Yunnan lu, near People Square, there's the only restaurant where I can have some pretty authentic Xi'an food (yang rou paomo and other delicious noodles) |
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tihZ_hO
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| C'mon, I'm sure we all already have eaten food cooked with that kind of oil. Probably without noticing... |
Yet everyone is happy to overpay for organic food and believe the hype. 
Ah China, leave your common sense at the door.
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SnappySammy
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I understand China, "The secret is in the oil"
Many street vendors who cook snacks (especially fried foods) may use “slop oil” to save money and keep their costs low.
Slop oil? What's that?
Slop oil is “refined” from slop or swill, which is the leftover “food” that people and restaurants throw away.
ChinaSMACK
http://www.chinasmack.com/pictures/recycled-slop-swill-cooking-oil/
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If were talking street food..I would prefer an Extra Light Virgin.... |
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SnappySammy
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| Personally, I don't think the hygiene standard of street food here qualifies anything to be put into my mouth. |
and you think it is better in an enclosed kitchen in a restaurant? |
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SnappySammy
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I found a small street off Beijing Lu East that had 4 street vendors..Everything Looked and smelled great....Don't know the name of the street.....It's behind all the hardware stores on Beijing rd. |
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SnappySammy
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Winter is the best time for Street Food...they smell great and the heat from the venders feels good... |
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Christin90
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I love the smell of the roasing sweet potatoes. They make me so hungry.
I havn't had one though because they seem to be cooked in old chemical drums  |
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tihZ_hO
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| Winter is the best time for Street Food...they smell great and the heat from the venders feels good... |
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| Personally, I don't think the hygiene standard of street food here qualifies anything to be put into my mouth. |
Really, doesn't this make you want to just dig right in?
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think they take American Express |
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larvahe
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I still think the best street food is in my city. I dont like shanghai street food....when i came back in my city...around 00:00 am...the first thing was eating street food. really good....but the first u have to enjoy spicy. |
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HiBeverly
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I only like dumplings for street food.. but I find so much street food in Shanghai is all "meat on skewers" which freaks me out. Weird and the seasoning they HEAP on tastes awful to me! |
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Dumplings are not really street food, dumplings are always sold from small shops. I personally like the Babi Mantou (巴比馒头) beef dumplings. The seasoning they use is really good.
Street food is mostly things like meat on a stick (串）, the pancake type batter spread in a big cirlcle and then they crack an egg over it and add onion (not really sure of the name, I think maybe it is dan bing 蛋饼) ， smelly tofu (I refuse to eat this, I have never tried it, many people swear by it, but I loathe the smell).
Shanghai street food is exactly as MsBeverly said, really dull compared to most other places in China. Beijing had amazing street food, the best I have had was in Changsha. One of the things I never saw in Beijing which is rapidly becoming very popular is that taiwanese style fried dough. Basically they have a small bag of oiled dough, they cook it, add an egg, a piece of bacon, and a slice of cheese. I love that. Some of the best drunk food in history (shou zhua bing 手抓饼) |
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SnappySammy
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Not sure if it's better drunk food or munchies food.... |
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tihZ_hO
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| I only like dumplings for street food.. but I find so much street food in Shanghai is all "meat on skewers" which freaks me out. Weird and the seasoning they HEAP on tastes awful to me! |
A few years back there was a lot of outrage about the meat on skewers - a lot of it it was cat.
http://eatdrinkallthetime.blogspot.com/2009/03/five-famous-chinese-foo d-believe-it-or.html
If the article is blocked by the GFW here it is, as this is exactly the sort of thing China wants to hide.
On any given night in China, you can find street vendors fastidiously fanning their charcoal grills sending billows of tasty smelling, meat laced smoke up into the sky. Next to them are coolers stockpiled with skewers of vegetables and meat. In the pageant of street snacks, lamb skewers or yang rou chrua'r are definitely the crowd favorite; however, even as you slide that hot, grilled piece of meat off the bamboo skewer and taste its juicy, gamey lamb goodness mixing with your saliva your brain can't help to think, "How can this possibly only cost RMB1?" But by that time you're in no mood for sensible thoughts and so the subsequent line of internal monologue ignores the possiblity that the meat is probably pretty poor quality or that the meat may be extremely old or that the meat may be discarded from dubious sources.
Instead, that voice inside your head yells, "You're hungry! There's delicious meat in front of you! EAT IT!!" And so, you chomp down on not one, not two a dozen or so meat skewers. After all, you're having a good time right now, carpe dieming the night and all that. Sure this skewer might be bad for you but how bad could it be?
Well, it could be cat.
While the consumption of cat is acknowledged to be acceptable in southern China (even local Chinese people sniff with an air of disgusted wonderment, "Those people will eat anything." whenever Guangdong is mentioned), it's become a widely rumored fact that cunning street vendors outside the designated we-actually-like-and-want-to-eat-felines areas are selling cat dressed as lamb. It's street molecular gastronomy- the cat meat is cured in a lamb's stomach to infuse in the flavors.
While some might cry foul, this whole bait 'em and switch 'em scheme seems perfectly in line with China's unique and enthusiastic capitalist-with-a-communist-slant spirit. Just think - in order to herd livestock you've got to have land, grain, farmers. It's an activity that can only be done by the elitist few.
To herd cats, you just need to run around at night with a net, an activity that could be done by the people. Ideologically sound AND efficient. Now that is impressive!
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SnappySammy
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that's it for me.... No more street food meat... |
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HiBeverly
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