Our future, our roots——A memory of old Shanghai’s alleys and their residents

"Congee with job’s tears,almonds and lotus seeds!""Rose sugar cake!""Shrimp wonton noodles!""Tea flavored boiled eggs!""Those were the sounds of snack peddlers making their rounds and hawking goods in the alleys of Shanghai’s Zhabei neighborhood four or five years ago.If all could have been recorded,the shouts would number no less than 20,"Lu Xun wrote in an essay published in 1935.