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民以食为天2014
上海 / SHANGHAI
When I first arrived in China, every night a man set up his grill less than a block from where I lived to serve a Chinese street-food favorite known as chuan (串). Priced at about 15 cents a stick, this cheap dinner was how I survived after first arriving. 民以食为天 is named after a Chinese idiom that means “to the people food is heaven” and unknowingly documented the final moments of Shanghai’s bustling street food scene before a wide reaching crackdown virtually erased the city's street food culture.
