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With more households in which both partners work, it’s tough for families to coordinate vacation schedules, and weakening job security is making employees reluctant to leave for long. As gas prices and travel costs soar, people are sticking to domestic trips. Many are opting to stay close to home, rediscovering delights in their own backyard.
Created by Mark Elliott, likealocal.cn is an online guide to eating like a local. He uses menu translations, reviews, photos and videos to help foreigners order street food in Shanghai. Where most guidebooks and websites tend to focus on fashionable interior design, fusion foods and prestigious chefs, Mark’s site focuses on street eats, cheap eats and snack foods. A foreigner with nog Chinese language-ability can enjoy all the kinds of food the local Chinese population eats, using this site.
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