Shanghai cuisine does not belong to the eight major cuisines. Shanghai cuisine belongs to Shanghai cuisine, that is, local cuisine. Benbang cuisine is an important school of traditional food culture in Jiangnan area. The so-called local gang means local.

The main famous dishes of Shanghai cuisine are: Shanghai braised pork, eight-treasure duck, crystal shrimp, boiled chicken, Shanghai Songjiang perch, salted fresh, fried river shrimp, hibiscus crab bucket, chicken bone sauce, bad pot head, shrimp with big black ginseng, Fengjing Dingti and so on.

Characteristics of Shanghai cuisine

First of all, pay attention to fresh materials. It uses seasonal vegetables in four seasons, and the fish is mainly produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, taking live as the top priority. There are live fish for customers to choose from all year round, and they are cooked live on the spot.

Second, there are many kinds of dishes, and the four seasons are different.

Third, pay attention to cooking methods and constantly improve them. Shanghai cuisine used to pay equal attention to roasting, steaming, simmering, nesting and frying, and gradually turned to roasting, stir-frying, and steaming. Among them, stir-frying and stir-frying are especially good at cooking seafood in the four seasons.