Here is a hint for the ’su cai’ people that decide to come to Shanghai.
There’s a place called the Jade Buddha temple that has a nice restaurant attached to it. We went to it, and it had a plethora of interesting dishes, some of which were faux meat. One bizarre thing is that there was a Chinese man in the restaurant that couldn’t remove his gaze from our direction. Actually, he was just plain staring, and wouldn’t even look away if you turned to look at him. I think he was amazed that Westerners might actually want to eat vegetarian food though meat is so abundant and relatively inexpensive in China now.
Here is a further listing of vegetarian restaurants in Happy Cow:
http://www.happycow.net/asia/china/shanghai/index.html
And finally, here is a place that I can’t wait to try that comes highly recommended by this guy who has a vegetarian girlfriend:
http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/archives/2005/03/30/the_best_vegetarian_restaurant_in_shanghai/
I’ll post about Vegetarian Lifestyle when I visit there soon.
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