Mr Harry Authentic British Restaurant has proved a huge hit with locals and with prawn cocktail, bangers and mash, fish and chips, and bread-and-butter pudding on the menu, who can blame them?
The people of China or at least the 22 million of them who live in Shanghai finally have a chance to get cultural payback for every time westerners have ordered dizzyingly inappropriate combinations of dishes in Chinese restaurants.
Last December, Londoner Harry Spencer opened what he claims to be China's first authentic English restaurant. It has seen scores of diners ordering dishes that don't strictly go together. "Quite a lot have insisted on combinations like prawn cocktail, bangers and mash, fish and chips and bread-and-butter pudding with custard all at the same time and then eating it all together," says Spencer, 28.
