Dining out in "Fish street"

 

Last weekend together with some friends we decided to give the overpriced expat restaurants a miss and hit "Fish street" right in the heart of old Shanghai. All it is is a little road just of Xizong Lu and it is fringed with street vendors barbequeing their latest catches. If you don´t mind that it is a very chinese experience you will enjoy going there and mixing with the local crowd which later at night (that means after 9pm in Shanghai..) seem to be mostly young Chinese on their way to a night out.

You can look forever to find an English menue - you won´t find it. But that is no issue, because all you do is "Zhe ge -it" (point at the uncooked stuff and and say Zhe ge" which means "This! which by the way is any expats way of getting round anything in Shanghai  - or you do it even lazier like us and bring an experienced brother with you who has done this already several times :-) They than BBQ your food an bring it into one fo the many the dining rooms you are choosing to eat it in.

It is a truly messy way of eating which is why you get (and need!!) plastic gloves (need many of them!) and if you want you can also get an aprin. Food is served on skewers or in bowls and comes with a nice sauce which we have not figured out what it is.. Looks like soy sauce and tastes a little sweet.

Winners again this time were the garlic bbq oysters (less than 1 EUR each!), smoked fish on a stick (see piture above), BBQ prawns and my personal favorite "miàn bao" which are sweet tasting little bread dumplings roasted over fire

After dinner the restaurant weighs you and depending on how many kilo´s you put on you pay...

.....only JOKING!!

this guy just tried to make a little money with his scales.

You probably wonder about how our tummys felt the next day?

Mei Venti! - No Problem!! - We will be back again!