Where East meets West for dinner
By Xu Junqian in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2016-12-26 07:03
Guidebooks advise sampling Shanghai's "must-tries" like xiaolongbao (soup dumplings), red-braised pork and hairy crabs.
But the city's best-kept open secret is haipai xican, which literally translates as "Hai-style Western fare".
It shows every dimension of the metropolis' culture - down to its cuisine - exists at the intersection of East and West.
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