This morning we visited a potato chip and candy factory owned by one of the WLSA families. They opened shop in Pudong (on the other side of the river from the Bund) in 1993, but since this area is now the financial capital of Shanghai, they’ve moved a couple of times since then. The factory is now on the outskirts of the city, so it was interesting to visit an industrial part of town. We tasted several of the company’s (called “Oishi” - which means delicious in Japanese, though the family is from the Philippines) snacks, put on white coats, face masks, and hairnets, and toured the factory floors. After going through a sanitization process which included an air shower chamber, we saw long strips of bean flavored snacks stream out of machines and then get cut into pieces and fried. We went to another part of the factory to see them making minty lemon flavored candy, and then we returned to the conference room and picked up bags of snacks to take with us. After this tour the family took us out to a high end buffet lunch in a fancy Sofitel in a nearby section developed with mansions – a real treat. Several of our kids thought this meal was the highlight of their day. After lunch we went to Zhu Jia Jiou, a famous river town not far from the Yangtze. We wandered around the old alleys and shops and across a bridge supported by five arches that dates back to the 1500s. When we returned, students went to Jurassic Park 3, while I visited Chung Hwang Miaow in the center of Shanghai with Nancy Xue and her mother and May Lu (Amy’s mother) before visiting the Bund.
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