Second, Shanghai cuisine
Shanghai local cuisine (including Suzhou cuisine) and exotic cuisine have existed for a long time and influenced each other, so it has gradually developed into a Shanghai-style cuisine with Shanghai and Suzhou cuisine as the main body and local flavor as the main part. Shanghai cuisine has many distinctive features:
First of all, pay attention to the fresh materials. It adopts seasonal vegetables in four seasons, and the main fish is produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with living as the first priority. There are live fish for customers to choose from all year round, and they are cooked 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, frying and steaming. Among them, stir-frying and stir-frying are especially good at cooking seafood in four seasons.
The fourth taste has also changed a lot. Originally, Shanghai cuisine was dominated by thick soup and sweat. Later, it gradually became a moderate marinade, light and elegant, and also had a thick oily red sauce. It pays attention to freshness, color and taste. Especially in summer and autumn, rotten vegetables are rich in flavor and quite distinctive.
Nowadays, Shanghai cuisine has the advantages of fresh raw materials, excellent quality, fine knife work, exquisite production, proper cooking, light and elegant, moderate salinity, diverse tastes, wide adaptability and unique flavor. Its main famous dishes are herring throwing chin, herring bald lung, Sichuan braised ring with pickled pepper, stir-fried grass head, boiled chicken, chicken bone sauce, rotten bowl head, black ginseng shrimp, Songjiang perch and Fengjing top hoof.
Third, Shanghai cuisine
Braised, stir-fried and simmered are the most common methods, and thick oil red sauce is the first choice. Soup brine is mellow, original, salty and palatable. Its famous dishes include stir-fried grass head, fat feet with salt and pepper, five-flavored chicken legs, double-wrapped duck slices, stewed pig's feet, shredded pork and soybean soup, four-fresh cabbage pier, stewed yam with candied dates, crispy rice soup with mushrooms, fried hairy crabs and so on.