A detailed look how a food trend starts in China’s financial hub, Shanghai.

Shanghai’s 2022 lockdown, which lasted two months, left economic and psychological scars on the metropolis.

What happens when supply chains collapse and it’s up to district governments, neighbors and friends to fill the gap?

Because of COVID-19 restrictions, a critical Shanghai plant that produces the dye has been operating at reduced capacity for weeks.

Shanghai is allowing a small number of firms to resume operations. In a heavily locked-down environment, many of them are finding it’s not that easy.

COVID cases still number about 18,000 per day, and many people have had to make sacrifices.

Shanghai’s latest citywide lockdown has left residents anxious about being separated from their children, pets and struggling to find food.

Shanghai officials boast that their strategy to snuff out the spread of COVID-19 is preferable to a city-wide lockdown. For residents living through the current wave, the effects are jarring.

China’s financial capital is not under a full lockdown, but strict anti-COVID measures still weigh on residents.

Workers from rural China came to Shanghai in search of better lives, a challenge even in good times. Then the COVID-19 lockdown hit.