Shanghai finance district by night.

The trip of a lifetime has just passed with a visit to the Shanghai international food exhibition where companies from all over the world were showing their food brands to a hungry Chinese food market. The sheer wealth and buildings in parts of Shanghai are in equal measure both awe inspiring and disorientating as you take in the size of China and its voracity for western style consumerism. The food was amazing and unlike Chinese food I have ever eaten with the most beautiful presentation befitting of any top UK restaurant. The menus included such items as bullfrog, jellyfish, turtle, sea anemones, sea cucumbers and abalones, hairy crabs and all kinds of  cuts from pork and chicken, intestines, glands, tongues , feet and rectums, a true smorgasbord of body parts as I have ever seen. Alas I opted for somewhere to the centre of extreme Chinese dining. Try my twitter @DingleyDellPork to see loads of Chinese cuisine photos both live and dead.