访谈录 2010-04-12&04-15 上海小吃

Shanghainese food, you definitely have to try.

Every week, here have around 15 restaurants open.

They start to do experiment with new kind of food.
You can have like world class international dining experience and at the same time you can like just walk down the street.
Now that’s where I want to start, the place where a lot of young Shanghainese get their daily meals, the street.

Here we are in Shanghai’s Wu Jiang food market, the place is amazing, actually it is really packed. We are here in the late evening, and you can get lots of good things to eat here. These are vegetable dumplings, just try out this street vendor², very good, let’s see what else we can find. Here is another Shanghai staple³, rice noodles, basically with some meat, parsley and spices. This time, it is very spicy⁴, that’s why this people by the camera laughing. Wu Jiang food market is actually a really fun place to hang out, and then there is this, squid on a stick, so he’s cooking the whole thing together, onions, soy sauce, chilly⁵ spice, here it goes, ready? Definitely some chilly pepper. Slight taste of tyre tread. There is one thing for sure about Chinese food is: it’s got a lot of flavor.

Believe it or not, I am still a little hungry, but I wanted to get away off the beaten path. If you love seafood⁶, this is the place to beat. Here we are at Tong Chuan fish market, this place is huge and it has almost anything you can think of. If it swims you can buy it here.

Shanghai sits right on the East China Sea, so seafood is even more popular here than in the rest of the country. And Chinese penchant⁷ for eating nearly anything won’t disappoint you here. There are sea creatures here, I didn’t even know it existed, unbelievable, shapes and shells and mussels. This place is almost like a century overloaded⁸ like crustations and sea creatures.

Another great thing about the wet market is that in the midst of all the mollusks, eels⁹, sea cucumber squid, octopus¹⁰, crustations, and general unrecognizable creepy crawly slimy scaly¹¹ fin¹ wearing, and at times alien-looking aquatic¹² creatures, you will also get an authentic¹³ slice of Shanghainese life. In between all the stalls, you will find people playing mah-jongg.

As it must be obvious by now, I love food, and consider it an essential part of travel. So I often look for places like this, but Tong Chuan takes the cake. It’s just the kind of travel experience to get you away from the tourists masses into the essential spirit of Shanghai. And I think I finally found dinner. These are in season right now, this is a hairy crab¹⁴, you can tell these weird¹⁵ tops of hair on both of the pincers. The hairy crab is actually a distinct Shanghai specialty¹⁶, so I think this is dinner.

 

1 fin   

n.鳍；(飞机的)安定翼

参考例句：

• They swim using a small fin on their back.它们用背上的小鳍游动。
• The aircraft has a long tail fin.那架飞机有一个长长的尾翼。

2 vendor   

n.卖主；小贩

参考例句：

• She looked at the vendor who cheated her the other day with distaste.她厌恶地望着那个前几天曾经欺骗过她的小贩。
• He must inform the vendor immediately.他必须立即通知卖方。

3 staple   

n.主要产物，常用品，主要要素，原料，订书钉，钩环；adj.主要的，重要的；vt.分类

参考例句：

• Tea is the staple crop here.本地产品以茶叶为大宗。
• Potatoes are the staple of their diet.土豆是他们的主要食品。

4 spicy   

adj.加香料的；辛辣的，有风味的

参考例句：

• The soup tasted mildly spicy.汤尝起来略有点辣。
• Very spicy food doesn't suit her stomach.太辣的东西她吃了胃不舒服。

5 chilly   

adj.凉快的，寒冷的

参考例句：

• I feel chilly without a coat.我由于没有穿大衣而感到凉飕飕的。
• I grew chilly when the fire went out.炉火熄灭后，寒气逼人。

6 seafood   

n.海产食品，海味，海鲜

参考例句：

• There's an excellent seafood restaurant near here.离这儿不远有家非常不错的海鲜馆。
• Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.小虾是比较普遍的一种海味。

7 penchant   

n.爱好，嗜好；（强烈的）倾向

参考例句：

• She has a penchant for Indian food.她爱吃印度食物。
• He had a penchant for playing jokes on people.他喜欢拿人开玩笑。

8 overloaded   

a.超载的，超负荷的

参考例句：

• He's overloaded with responsibilities. 他担负的责任过多。
• She has overloaded her schedule with work, study, and family responsibilities. 她的日程表上排满了工作、学习、家务等，使自己负担过重。

9 eels   

abbr. 电子发射器定位系统（=electronic emitter location system）

参考例句：

• Eels have been on the feed in the Lower Thames. 鳗鱼在泰晤士河下游寻食。
• She bought some eels for dinner. 她买回一些鳗鱼做晚餐。

10 octopus   

n.章鱼

参考例句：

• He experienced nausea after eating octopus.吃了章鱼后他感到恶心。
• One octopus has eight tentacles.一条章鱼有八根触角。

11 scaly   

adj.鱼鳞状的；干燥粗糙的

参考例句：

• Reptiles possess a scaly,dry skin.爬行类具有覆盖着鳞片的干燥皮肤。
• The iron pipe is scaly with rust.铁管子因为生锈一片片剥落了。

12 aquatic   

adj.水生的，水栖的

参考例句：

• Aquatic sports include swimming and rowing.水上运动包括游泳和划船。
• We visited an aquatic city in Italy.我们在意大利访问过一个水上城市。

13 authentic   

a.真的，真正的；可靠的，可信的，有根据的

参考例句：

• This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
• Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。

14 crab   

n.螃蟹，偏航，脾气乖戾的人，酸苹果；vi.捕蟹，偏航，发牢骚；vt.使偏航，发脾气

参考例句：

• I can't remember when I last had crab.我不记得上次吃蟹是什么时候了。
• The skin on my face felt as hard as a crab's back.我脸上的皮仿佛僵硬了，就象螃蟹的壳似的。

15 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

16 specialty   

n.(speciality)特性，特质；专业，专长

参考例句：

• Shell carvings are a specialty of the town.贝雕是该城的特产。
• His specialty is English literature.他的专业是英国文学。