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Just a weekend back in Shanghai, and staying in a different part of town than last time, but memories are jogged anyway. The menu page above brings back the struggle of keeping vegetarian in China. (I gave up.) And this page from a recent book by the Shanghai-based French cartoonist P'tite Lu brings back the frustration of trying to use the Chinese you've painstakingly learned with real people... (I won't give up!)