Donuts for the Kids . . . Cream Puffs for Me

It is really easy to get fat in this city. Here are merely two of the delicious ways:

1) Dunkin' Donuts. I got these for the kids as a last day of the semester/ pre-exam treat. They LOVED the donuts. Dunkin' Donuts is really new to Shanghai (the first location opened right near People's Square about a month ago), so not many of them had been able to try it yet. But, they had all heard of it.

I spread the globalized diet whenever possible. (Sorry, Spann . . . )

It's kind of hilarious when you go to the store because the workers still have yet to perfect the colloquial "Dunkin'" so it comes out, "Welcome to Dunki!"

3.5 dozen donuts.

One delicious specimen.

2) Beard Papa. For about a month I thought this was called Beer Papa (which would also be okay with me) but in fact, it is Beard Papa. The Papa specializes in Cream Puffs. That's right. Cream Puffs. He kind of reminds me of the deep sea fisherman on packages of Gorton's frozen fish sticks (link here). Good news though, no fried fishiness in the cream puffs. Only vanilla (or Green Tea) deliciousness.





Mmmmmm . . . . .

The catch is, though, that unlike in the States, it actually takes a fair amount of effort (read: burnt calories) to aquire such treats. This is especially true when you are as far south in Shanghai as we are here at SHSID. So, usually, by the end of the night (even if it includes a Dunkin' or Papa binge) it all evens out!

Zaijian!