The Cleaver Quarterly on Nostr: In Shanghai, rice cakes are stir-fried with pork and shepherd’s purse (a local ...

In Shanghai, rice cakes are stir-fried with pork and shepherd’s purse (a local leafy green). That's just how things are done and nobody questions it. Then we saw a restaurant that pairs the soft and chewy slabs with saucy sizzling eggplant, and now we’re convinced that rice cakes deserve more variety. Why not top them the way we do noodles or plain rice? Default thinking is the enemy of innovation. #RiceCakes #eggplant #Shanghai #China #ChineseFood #Asia #travel #年糕 #茄子 #荠菜 #上海 #中国