A good, gastronomical guide to Chinese street food

I found this blog to be a great primer on Chinese street food, available to hungry FT's in China! It gets specific about shops and stands in Shanghai but the names of food, photos of the items, and it tips on ordering might be useful for some of us greenies:

http://www.likealocal.cn/

Some pretty fancy stuff here, MOP.
Your everyday steamed and fried genuine on the street food costs from a half to 2 yuan a serve, is unhealthy but delicious, and contains a huge range of styles and influences. And that is just in Shanghai!
Be sure to taste and enjoy. No need to practice Chinese on stallholders who may not understand you, for linguistic reasons of their own as much as yours. Just point!

This is more of a Link than a Library item, and I'll put it in the Living Info Links page.

But it's pretty interesting and I'll leave the discussion here, too.

A lot of the street food shown here is pretty much regional to the Greater Shanghai area. I never saw xiao long in DongBei, for example...I saw other stuff not seen in here. In the deep Southeast of China street food can get downright creepy.

One point with street food: in hot weather, I tend to shy away from meat-based foods unless I see a refrigerator on the premises or am otherwise convinced that the food is being properly kept until time to cook and serve it.

Kick ass link!

Well done, Parma.  I esecially like the primer about the scales.  Our library is pretty good on the subject of food, but not the photos to accompany.  We should consider doing just that.

MOP that site is amazing!

I didn't make the site, but I sure like to share it. I wished I had known about it when I was last in Shanghai. Of course, I'd have had to leave all my luggage in China since I'd have made up the weight in sheer gastronomical consumption!

I found this blog to be a great primer on Chinese street food, available to hungry FT's in China! It gets specific about shops and stands in Shanghai but the names of food, photos of the items, and it tips on ordering might be useful for some of us greenies:

http://www.likealocal.cn/

MOP, I like your idea and I'm moving the stuff I posted up in the suggesttion box to be here with your link.

Those of you in country will want to check for authenticity but there is a guy, Denis Zavialov, who posted a travelers example menu with hanzi and pinyi and description.
http://onefootprint.com/projects/ChineseMenu.shtml[/url]. I downloaded his 2003 but I see he has a 2005/6 upgrade. It's PDF I find best read on-line so I can see the font.

A food guide for vegeatarians. It has hanzi, pinyin, descriptions, and a few pictures and can be found at: http://pratyeka.org/vegetarian-china/

Pictures of select traditional dishes sorta' like what MOP posted:
http://www.beijingtraveltips.com/chinese_food_guide/chinese_food_guide.htm

Now if we can get pics to go with Stil's list up in suggestions.