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MOVABLE FEASTS | celebrating shanghai streetfood heritage

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Moveable Feasts aims to research, savor, catalogue, preserve, and engage with Shanghai’s rich street food heritage. Today in cities across the world a street food renaissance is taking place. However, in Shanghai, an attitude prevails that equates urban development with “cleaning up the streets” — including getting rid of street food vendors. Shanghai’s street food is a culinary repository of migrants’ culture from all over China, and sometimes the world, assimilated and synthesized with each successive wave of immigration. It started from the initial native Shanghainese who originated mostly from nearby Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces, out of which developed the foods that are considered Shanghai’s signature dishes. During the treaty port era and now since Reform and Opening Shanghai has drawn immigrants from new regions, who have brought recipes and tastes that subsequently shaped and were shaped by the Shanghai flavor, both in mainstream and street cuisine. Street markets are also a

Moveable Feasts aims to research, savor, catalogue, preserve, and engage with Shanghai’s rich street food heritage. Today in cities across the world a street food renaissance is taking place. However, in Shanghai, an attitude prevails that equates urban development with “cleaning up the streets” — including getting rid of street food vendors. Shanghai’s street food is a culinary repository of migrants’ culture from all over China, and sometimes the world, assimilated and synthesized with each successive wave of immigration. It started from the initial native Shanghainese who originated…

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