Captain Ahab had Moby Dick. Arthur Jones has
doubansu.
When Englishman Jones first came to China in 1996,
doubansu was (and we ll have to take his word on this) a home-style dish commonly found in Shanghai s neighborhood restaurants. And rather than it biting off his leg, he dug into it heartily.
Twenty-five years on, and the old restaurants have vanished under rapid urban development, and with them, his favorite food. Few young people today have even heard of it.
So, the hunt was on – and documentary short
The Dish That Disappeared is the result.
“I really wanted to explore some of my memories of my earliest days in Shanghai, back in the late 1990s,” explains Jones. “And the story of