| Fast Food and the New China |
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| Soon much of urban China will look like this. It's an industrial development/modernization zone in Shanghai. Old China is being demolished and will not survive. |
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| Sidewalk vendors near our Shanghai hotel cooked and sold traditional Chinese fast food. They have real competition. |
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| Colonel Sanders statues are everywhere, as Kentucky Fried Chicken continues its conquest of China. |
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| This three-story Kentucky Friend Chicken outlet in central Beijing was the chain's largest when it opened in the 1980s. The lines were so long that uniformed guards had to maintain order. It was still crowded in 1996. |
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| McDonalds is fighting back. There is nothing more Chinese now than the golden arches, with the possible exception of Coca-Cola. |
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| With all the banners in Chinese it's hard to tell, but here is the opening of a new McDonalds in Shanghai. This is what the future holds for modern Chinese cuisine. |
| If you have a high speed internet connection, watch the Intrepid Berkeley Explorer's free movie of this trip, "The Last Emperor's Home Video", by clicking on AdventurePics . |
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