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If you want stinky tofu you won't have to find it, it'll find you. Walking through any night market you'll know if you're within 20 feet.
There are also often durian vendors, which doesn't carry nearly as much as chou dofu but is still pretty easy to know when around especially in something enclosed like a bus.
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In US, I always carry a set of plastic fork and spoon and a sharp knife. Also disposable chopsticks.
Plan to do the same in China but will probably bring longer chopsticks that we use at home.
Hate those plastic chopsticks and the number of trees used annually for disposable chopsticks is appalling. BYOC and save a tree,
All the disposable chopsticks that I saw during my 2 stints in China were made of wood and not that great.
If you want stinky tofu you won't have to find it, it'll find you. Walking through any night market you'll know if you're within 20 feet.
There are also often durian vendors, which doesn't carry nearly as much as chou dofu but is still pretty easy to know when around especially in something enclosed like a bus.
I just got back from China for the umpteenth time. I don't usually eat the street food but ate some of the kaboobs that they grill on the corner outside of a girlie bar - chicken and beef and those delicious green beens with ginger or something. Excellent.
Durian I don't recall ever seeing in Shanghai, that seems to be mostly a S.E. Asia (Singapore) thing. It's nasty stuff, but believe it or not I tried making a durian beer a couple years ago for a Singaporean lady I liked.
Stinky tofu is just nasty, I didn't like the taste either.
For the OP: One need not worry about chop stick - see how the Chinese eat a noodle dish, slurping away at the bowl, and you will never feel self-conscious about your lack of style or skills.
I don't usually eat the street food but ate some of the kaboobs that they grill on the corner outside of a girlie bar - chicken and beef and those delicious green beens with ginger or something. Excellent.
You're missing out on lots of good street food in China. Try the fried rice, the squid on a stick, the sausage, the mutton kabob, the noodles in cardboard bowl, the omelette, the spiced potato chunks, the corn on the cob, the fried cheese kurd thingies, etc.
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Durian I don't recall ever seeing in Shanghai, that seems to be mostly a S.E. Asia (Singapore) thing.
Lots of durian sold in street markets in China. My problem with it is usually overpriced since they wrap it into portions more than I want.
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Durian I don't recall ever seeing in Shanghai, that seems to be mostly a S.E. Asia (Singapore) thing. It's nasty stuff, but believe it or not I tried making a durian beer a couple years ago for a Singaporean lady I liked.
Stinky tofu is just nasty, I didn't like the taste either.
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Lots of durian sold in street markets in China. My problem with it is usually overpriced since they wrap it into portions more than I want.
I saw Durian sold in street markets in Eastern China as well as the Southwestern part that I visited.
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