Chocolate Shanghai
Posted: September 27th, 2008 | 3 Comments »Still, chocolatiers, the real thing and not Hershey’s, in the French Concession is, you’ve guessed it, nothing new. Helen Foster-Snow, who’s pen name was Nym Wales and was married to Edgar ‘Red Star Over China’ Snow, was also someone who knew how to enjoy life. When the Snows lived in Shanghai she was a habitué of the famous and extremely popular Chocolate Shop on Bubbling Well Road, a home-from-home for Americans in the International Settlement, where she and Edgar would come to enjoy sandwiches, salads and ice cream. The Chocolate Shop pops up in so many memoirs of old Shanghai it must have been good. It was still around in 1945 according to the Flying Tigers Guide to Shanghai. Hopefully these new chocolate shops will last a good long while too – so much nicer than just another bloody Starbucks blanding the neighbourhood.
Hi Paul,
I’m trying to find out the story of the Chocolate Shop you mentioned in this entry. Is it the one started by an American couple of Sullivan?
Thanks and have a nice day.
C
Hi Paul,
I’m trying to find out the story of the Chocolate Shop you mentioned in this entry. Is it the one started by an American couple called Sullivan?
Thanks and have a nice day.
CÃntia
Cintia: My great-grandfather, C.H. Raven, was managing director of The Chocolate Shop from 1925ish. I’ve gathered little bits and pieces about it, if you’re still interested a decade later!