{"id":4151,"date":"2012-06-01T08:38:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T07:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2012-06-01T08:38:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T07:38:04","slug":"shanghai-dining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=4151","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Dining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gaobo_essen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4152\" title=\"gaobo_essen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gaobo_essen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gaobo_essen.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gaobo_essen-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a title=\"Viola Zimmermann\" href=\"http:\/\/www.viola.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Viola Zimmermann<\/a>, a Swiss friend currently teaching in Shanghai, who sent me this picture of a traditional Shanghai meal she shared with her colleague Gaobo at <strong>Wang Jia Sha<\/strong>, 805 Nanjing Rd, Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;One of the city&#8217;s most popular and trusty standbys for inexpensive dining, this famed eatery specializes in all of Shanghai&#8217;s signature snacks and cheap eats including <strong>Xiefen Xiaolong<\/strong> (crabmeat and pork dumplings), <strong>Xiefen Shengjian<\/strong> (crabmeat and pork buns steamed in oil), <strong>Guotie<\/strong> (pot stickers), <strong>Babaofan<\/strong> (eight-treasure sticky rice), and a variety of noodles such as <strong>Dandan Mian<\/strong> (noodles in spicy peanut sauce) and <strong>Shangsu Tangmian<\/strong> (noodle soup with vegetables). Recently renovated, the store features dining rooms on the second and third floors (where you can order from Chinese-only menus or simply point to what others are eating), and a take-out\/fast food section on the first floor where you can also watch staff making the dumplings.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Review from <a title=\"Shanghai Daily\" href=\"http:\/\/live.shanghaidaily.com\/directory_detail.asp?type=venues&amp;id=2043\" target=\"_blank\">The Shanghai Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Viola Zimmermann, a Swiss friend currently teaching in Shanghai, who sent me this picture&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[525,524],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinners","tag-shanghai","tag-wang-jia-sha","comments-open","no-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}