American College Kids Blog from Shanghai/by Shelley Lance, Blog Editor
My niece, Sara Kopke, has been on an art and design tour of Shanghai with other students from Columbia College in Chicago. I’ve been following their posts on Columbia College’s Travel Blog. The most food related post (these are art and design students after all) is by Anthony Sixto, who writes: “Slimy squids, puffy pastries, bloody fish, dead eels, live snakes, giant cucumbers, living crabs, and dying fish are just a handful of things sprawled out on the street for blocks… Some of the best food of the trip came from these hectic street markets. There is nothing like eating the food fresh off the carts or chopping table. It tastes great and the surroundings are as just as much of a part of the meal as the meal itself. It was kind of like an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s show. Well, except there were no cameras, no Anthony Bourdain, no prior knowledge of the food, and I wasn’t getting paid for my smart ass comments.” Read the rest of Anthony Sixto’s post here. (Scroll down to “Dead Fish.”) (Note: photo from Anthony Sixto)
Though she didn’t write about food, you may also want to read Sara’s sensitive, empathetic post on the culture clash experienced by an American student in Shanghai. What she liked: the sense of community. What she didn’t like: the lack of heated buildings, the difficulty in doing simple things, and the possibility of being mowed down by car, bike, or moped whenever she stepped into the street. She changed her mind on the subject of being stared at- which at first felt awkward and later just seemed candid, even “charming and flattering.”
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