Street market and food in Shanghai

Another fascinating aspect of China is the street markets and street foods.  In Shanghai, we were very fortunate to be right across the street from a very lively market.  It was busy all day and all night.  Here are some pictures that I took from a stroll that Ken and I took after first arriving.

Bins of grains and legumes:

 

Shane explained that these are marinated eggs, with the spices still crusted on the outside:

Big ceramic jars of wine:

Crabs:

 

 

Ducks:

In Shanghai, we went on the Untour Culinary tour of street food.  A young man took us around to restaurants and stalls that the tour company had vetted as being clean and safe.  :)  Here are some of the pictures from that tour:

 

Hot and Spicy crawfish!!

Lamb, mushroom and eggplant kebabs

Grilled lotus root kebabs:

 

Grilled spring onion and alfalfa sprout kebabs:

Eels:

 

Baby eels entwined in this young vendor's fingers:

 Moon cakes for the Mid Autumn festival:

Yummy grilled eggplant:

 A man who swings dough around and it separates into strings of pasta:

One of several gelatinous fruit desserts that our guide picked up for us: