Fried dough sticks are a kind of long and hollow fried food, which belongs to traditional Chinese pasta. For the old Shanghainese, fried dough sticks and pie are inseparable. Eating a big cake with a fried dough stick together is called a pair of breakfast, a crispy one and a crispy one, which is a classic collocation of many old Shanghainese.
Gufan is a kind of food cooked from glutinous rice and japonica rice, and it is one of the characteristic traditional snacks in Jianghuai area of the south of the Yangtze River. Glutinous rice is the main raw material, wrapped in fried dough sticks, mustard tuber, meat floss and so on, which is fragrant and chewy. In the past, sugar or black foreign sand was added to rice balls, and later mustard tuber and meat floss were added. However, fried dough sticks are indispensable, so you should pinch them tightly while eating.
Soybean milk is a kind of drink made by soaking soybeans in water, grinding, filtering and boiling. There are two kinds of soybean milk in Shanghai: salty and sweet. The sweet one is to put sugar in soybean milk. The salty taste is matched with shrimp skin, fried dough sticks, pickled mustard tuber, soy sauce or special sauce, with a few drops of sesame oil, which is not the same delicious.