One of the downsides of traveling with a large group (over a hundred people in this group) is that food becomes a difficult logistic matter. They can't take massive numbers of people to small local restaurants so we end up being taken to buffet restaurants in hotels. Except for one occasion, we have not eaten an authentic Chinese meal. When we were in Xi'an for lunch we took a taxi to a dumpling restaurant described in my Chinese guide book which seemed authentic. Other than that our meals have been mediocre.
We are determined to change that when we get to Shanghai on Friday. It means going off without the tour group, and we've seen that the authentic local restaurants are too daunting for us to handle on our own where no one speaks English, so we have arranged for a local tour guide to take us out for meals while we are there.
I'll take pictures and provide descriptions when we get some authentic Chinese restaurant experience.
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