Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village


Pork cubes at Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village.; Credit: Anne FishbeinPork cubes at Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village.; Credit: Anne Fishbein

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village in the SGV. (“It is the Chinese restaurant menu equivalent of a September Vogue, except instead of models, there are crabs and stewed pig's trotters and fried abalone, reproduced in nearly pornographic detail. To hell with dinner — you may want to just curl up with the menu and a snifter of Courvoisier.”) Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Counter Intelligence, “Red Velvet.”

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