Found in Chengdu. All their restored cultural streets (where you can shop in trendy boutiques and dine in French restos)  have a requisite Starbucks.

There is a cafe in Tianzifang on trendy Taikang Lu in Shanghai which is populated not by white Macbook-wielding, double espresso-drinking, tight pants-wearing loathsome hipsters, but by yeah, a lot of stuffed animals. That’s my friend Danielle embracing a popular cartoon lamb.

Here’s a prime example of “glocalization,” as we anthropologists like to say. Crayfish pizza, anyone? (Crayfish is a popular local dish which I wrote about for GoodEater.org.) Papa Johns knows that mere pepporoni is not enough to move Shanghainese through the door.

I paid 10 yuan (about 1.50USD) for this laminated photo in a tourist site in Chengdu. The girl who took it was curt and rude, declaring only the most bored and hateful-sounding of “SMILE!”s as she took a singular photo in front of several backdrops. So this was the only decent one, and I ended up giving it to my mom since she loves traditional Chinese dress. Me, I could definitely live without it. The necklines are way too high – qipaos a prime example.

Related posts:

1. See my GoodEater.org post on crayfish + chicken hearts on a stick
2. Pizza Hut Now Serving Escargots
3. Help, my dinner has tiny claws and tiny brains.
4. Free Uppercrust Pizza + Stalk My Appetite
5. Scallion, bacon, egg, and Sriracha pizza pie