Shanghai Xiaolong is indeed famous, but it does not fully represent the Shanghai breakfast, Shanghai's traditional breakfast is still the "four big".

Shanghai's "Big Four"

For local Shanghainese, their day starts with dim sum. And the snack they eat in the morning is the traditional Shanghai breakfast: The Four Golden Gangs.

The Four Diamonds have an unshakeable position in the Shanghai breakfast world, with the rapid development of Shanghai, a large influx of foreign food, but they have not only not been eliminated, but more and more new.

△Shanghai four diamonds + Shanghai Xiaolongbao, look at the good temptation ah

栥饭、大饼、油条、豆浆，就是上海的四大金刚， These foods are not flashy, not exquisite, but it is the Shanghai people's favorite breakfast. Soymilk, in particular, is the mainstay of the Shanghai breakfast scene, although Shanghainese are more fond of savory soymilk than sweet soymilk.

Putting shrimp, seaweed, and mustard greens into the original soy milk, and then dripping a few drops of spicy oil on top, it's a delight to look at and a delight to drink, and it's a treat for both the eyes and the palate.

△Salty soybean milk, sweet soybean milk, original soybean milk

As the soul mate of soybean milk, the doughnut can be said to be ubiquitous. Soaked in sweet soybean milk or original soybean milk, the fritter retains its own flavor; drinking with salty soybean milk, the fritter has the effect of neutralizing the salty taste of the squash.

Of course, with different flavors of soybean milk with different effects, different ways to eat it also make it more people can not stop.

Soaked in soymilk, the fritters have the fragrance of beans, crisp with some soft; a mouthful of soymilk and a mouthful of fritters, they are fused in the mouth, the feeling is simply. A simple breakfast with a twist is a blessing, and there are two other greats that bring happiness, sticky rice balls and pancakes.

Sticky millet is a kind of Chinese sushi, made from steamed glutinous rice and wrapped in fried dough sticks, to which you can add meat floss or mustard greens, making the fried dough sticks crunchy and the glutinous rice soft.

Shanghai big cake originated in northern Jiangsu, but basically has been localized in Shanghai, Shanghai big cake dough does not use baking powder to flour, is to use the old fermented flour will be covered on the dough for more than ten hours or so before kneading the dough, very careful.

Compared with the original flavor of the cake, the sweet cake is the favorite of many people, especially the brown sugar cake. Gently bite a big cake, inside the sweet brown sugar core from the inside of the cake out, simply sweet to the heart.

△ need to pay attention to is, eat brown sugar big cake, do not be in a hurry, because just out of the pot of big cake, the inside of the brown sugar will be hot mouth

In addition to xiao long bao, the four big king Kong, the raw pancakes, scallion pancakes are also more classic breakfast in Shanghai.

Shanghai's breakthroughs and old-fashioned

For the ever-changing Shanghai, these traditional breakfasts of soybean milk and doughnuts always feel a little less modern, and don't quite live up to Shanghai's reputation as a fashionable and trendy city.

Indeed, some people love to eat the simple Chinese doughnut buns, and naturally there are those who favor the Western-style coffee bread. Especially in Shanghai, in such a fast-developing city, there are countless people who love to eat western-style breakfast, and western-style breakfast stores can be found everywhere.

Ordering a cup of coffee and a sandwich at a coffee shop near the office is a popular choice for many white-collar workers in Shanghai, as it's convenient and quick, and allows them to enjoy their breakfast time alone.

When you are in a good mood, you can also take a good photo to send a circle of friends to share their own petty feelings, although the sense of ceremony is enough, but the coffee sandwiches are not as real as soybean milk and doughnuts, to have the temperature.

After all, for most people, the skyscraper is just a place to work, coffee is just an occasional pastime, the alley and the rented house is life, soybean milk and doughnuts is the breakfast that makes the heart and stomach warm.

Young people have a petty mood, like to try new things, more requirements for breakfast patterns, older people are very different from young people, they are accustomed to Eat the mouth of the alley for breakfast, as if to go to eat once to go back to the young.

Early in the morning with an aluminum pot, go to the mouth of the alley lined up to play soybean milk, buy doughnuts, is a lot of Shanghai people's childhood memories, but also now every morning in the Shanghai alley is happening things.

From teething children to silver-haired old men, the stories of the hutongs are always being updated, and their fondness for traditional breakfasts is growing and continuing day by day.

With the rapid development of the economy, there are many different kinds of food, and the breakfast is very popular, but for the Shanghainese people who love life, the most favorite is the traditional "Four Diamonds" and the famous Shanghai Xiao Long.

There are a lot of people on the Internet who say that with the development of the economy, the "Big Four" will soon become a legend in Shanghai, and when the traditional delicacies have long disappeared, we really want them to go to the alley in Shanghai to take a look.

△ Shanghai's many alleys have been demolished, but there are still a lot of alleys exist, go there to take a look, you will also find a fried doughnut breakfast store

From the Shanghai people I learned one thing, that is, no matter how much the city has changed, the things that should be preserved can not be lost.

Traditional food can have a tenacious vitality, and simple breakfast can be eaten out of the "sense of mission", Shanghai breakfast body, should be the sentence "plain and simple is true" ah!

(Some of the pictures in this article are from the Internet)

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