http://shanghaiist.com/2007/06/05/element_fresh_c.php All comments for Element Fresh coming to Hongqiao Airport in July en-us 2009 shang_kenneth Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:13 +0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss kenneth@shanghaiist.com kenneth@shanghaiist.com 60 http://shanghaiist.com/2007/06/05/element_fresh_c.php#comment-1121424 http://shanghaiist.com/2007/06/05/element_fresh_c.php#comment-1121424 Comments Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:03:40 +0800 <p>"Not at airport prices" - rrrrrrright then. Looking at their online menu, Chinese chicken salad (very easy to prepare, a defrosted chicken breast, some garnish and a few bits of leaf chopped up) costs 58rmb - that's about 4 UK pounds - sounds pretty much the same as what you would pay at an airport back home. And this menu is for their restaurants in town which are nowhere near airports. Foreigners in Shanghai really pay through the nose for western grub and beer. I bet everyone reading this spends a far higher proportion of their income on food and drink than they did back home - thought Shanghai was supposed to be a cosmopolitan international city? Judging from the prices we pay, you'd think it was some remote hardship outpost where burgers and hot dogs are air-dropped to the starving colonists every month. The tax on the Chinese food-phobic continues!</p> http://shanghaiist.com/2007/06/05/element_fresh_c.php#comment-1120756 http://shanghaiist.com/2007/06/05/element_fresh_c.php#comment-1120756 Comments Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:34:26 +0800 <p>The airport is the most appropriate place for Element Fresh, because you will never miss the flight given they are always in such a hurry to bid you farewell before you have even finished eating your meal. Both airports already have a decent international restaurant, the local Japanese chain Chalon. It would be better if Chalon served the full menu and it is not as good as the branch in Itokin Department Store. I have never had a bad meal at Chalon whereas I have eaten plenty of dry mediocre food at Element Fresh.</p>