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Because the end of last week turned into a cavalcade of obligations that prevented me from doing my normal end-of-week blogging, here’s a video to start off the week.

Elyse Sewell was a finalist in the first cycle of America’s Next Top Model; to date, she’s pretty much the only ANTM alumna to pull off any sort of career in high fashion. Currently, Sewell lives in China, about which she blogs with erudite words and pictures at elysesewell.livejournal.com. If you don’t read it already, I recommend you do. She chronicles her adventures in dining, where she faces live octopus dishes with gustatory fearlessness, as well as her daily travails in “ladypose,” modeling outlandish outfits and in various ridiculous situations.

Today she posted this video, entitled “Shanghai Slice.” It’s typical for her in its fascination for and loving amusement with daily Chinese life.