You've eaten at Shanghai's restaurants. Now come eat where locals actually eat — at someone's kitchen table, sharing a home-cooked meal with a real Shanghai family. +1 Chopsticks connects international travellers with personally curated local host families across Shanghai. Each host cooks the food their family actually eats at home — seasonal, fresh, and made from scratch. Depending on your host, you may make dumplings together before sitting down to eat, or simply arrive, relax, and let the meal come to you. Every experience includes a pre-visit dietary check-in so your host knows exactly what you can and can't eat, step-by-step directions to the home, and the Home Dining Cheat Sheets — a cultural primer on Chinese dining sent two days before your visit so you arrive curious rather than confused. Hosts include a Jiading Ayi who grows her own vegetables in a backyard garden, a Guizhou-born host who spent a decade in the US, and a Shanghai family who will teach you to fold dumplings before dinner. All hosts are English-speaking or have English support arranged.