The Teppanyaki restaurants around our neighbourhood were favourite places for my family to eat in Shanghai. It was always entertaining for the kids to sit in front of the chefs and their hot iron plates and see them prepare, cook and serve the food. For me it was always a grand cooking show and I always love it. Normally we would order from the menu some vegetables, eggs, tofu, fish, chicken and fried rice. The kids especially loved a desert called “fried ice cream” and “fried banana”.
The menu was in both Chinese and English but the chefs and the waiters can’t speak English. That’s when the realisation and the necessity to pick up Chinese became clear. Most of the younger Shanghainese could speak English but many of the service and hospitality staff and workers in Shanghai are from other provinces and they could not speak English.
But the food was always super and the service was always first class. My kids are now 19 and 15 and in Melbourne with me, but I am pretty sure that one day they would like to travel back to Shanghai and try their favourite teppanyaki “fried ice cream” and “food banana”.
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