The Food and Music Club is going international. We've opened a bureau in Shanghai and our first correspondent is a California-based animator who is spending two months teaching the ambitious youth of the Middle Kingdom how to draw Hollywood-style. Our Man in China works at a company that is helmed by a former live action film director and whose projects include the production of museum-quality fine art glass sculptures that sell for as much as US$25,000 apiece, animation films and haute cuisine restaurants. Our Man in China has this to say about one of his meals with his boss, Mr. Chen, in Shanghai:
"When Mr. Chen is in town, we get to sample new creations for the restaurant (sadly, Mr. Chen has been away on business all this week). Last weekend I got to go to the restaurant, which featured a live performance of traditional Chinese musicians from a famous music conservatory in Shanghai. ... The one [photo] I sent was a goose drumstick, with additional goose meat stuffed in those rings, which were probably made from the goose skin. The restaurant specializes in something Shanghainese call 'fusion,' which is a blending of Western and Chinese cuisine."
I hope that in his next dispatch, our Man in China will address -- in addition to the five W's in journalism: Who, What, Where, Why and When -- the most important question for The Food and Music Club: Was it yummy?
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