Taste: Shanghai Restaurant Route: [Gallery]: [Chinese-English Version]

Author: Zhang Minquan, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The author had a yearning for Shanghai restaurants, even though there were none with distinctive characteristics at the time. However, driven by a firm belief that restaurants are a form of culture, I carried and tried to sketch the dream of an idealist. In this dream, nostalgia, local flavors, foreign influences, and even unrelated symbols like Van Gogh, Provence, and Hawaii—all became important elements of a Shanghai restaurant in my mind. Today, this ideal has become a reality, and what constitutes the soul of a restaurant is no longer just about the food.