At the various dining spots in the Expo Park, visitors can taste delicious dishes from all over China and flavors from the five continents of the world. At the same time, some national pavilions also have special meals and snacks, so visitors can enjoy the delicious flavors from all over the world.
Specialty snacks preferred Shanghai old
The Expo, many of the old Shanghai into the Expo Park, a variety of old gourmet centuries-old tradition of branding, cohesion of several generations of wisdom in the production method, will make every person who tasted it to savor.
De Da Xi Cuisine
Limited to six set menus
De Da Xi Cuisine is a 100-year-old Shanghai restaurant located just west of the China Pavilion. Unlike the main restaurant on Nanjing West Road in Shanghai, the restaurant only serves set menus, with only six varieties, to keep visitors from having to wait.
According to a waiter, the most popular dish is the beef curry and rice set, which also includes a vegetable salad and borscht. The borscht soup here is thick, smooth and flavorful, and just a bit small for the main course, though the beef is cooked to perfection and flavored with diced potatoes and curry.
●Recommended menu: beef curry set, red braised beef set, black pepper beef tenderloin set, etc., all priced at 35 yuan per serving, and cold drinks such as Coke and Sprite at 10 yuan per cup.
●Tip: Be careful to keep an eye on your belongings when you come here for lunch, as the place is really popular. If you want to avoid the hassle of waiting, it's best to arrive 20 minutes before your meal.
Wang Bao He
Relatively inexpensive for a quick meal
Wang Bao He is also a long-established Chinese restaurant in Shanghai, and the Expo Park branch is located on the first basement level of the Expo Axis, northwest of the Taiwan Pavilion.
Wang Bao He offers a much wider variety of Chinese food than De Da, but you'll need to spend between 100 and 200 yuan per person for a decent lunch, though you can also opt for relatively inexpensive noodle dishes. Wang Bao He's noodle dishes are very good, with thin to transparent skins on the wontons and xiao longs and smooth, non-greasy meat fillings, and although the prices are on the high side, the portion sizes are generous.
●Recommended menu: crab meat wontons are 20 yuan per serving, and crabmeat xiao longs are 40 yuan per serving.
●Recommendation: The meals are oily, so it's best to bring your own drinks, as they are more expensive here than at many of the restaurants in the park.
Foreign feastsAustralian food all at affordable prices
Near each foreign pavilion in the Expo Park and inside the pavilion, there will be a number of foreign themed restaurants featuring foreign specialties by authentic foreign chefs, with authentic flavors and at prices that are lower than those of outside restaurants.
Bulgarian Pavilion special set meal 50 yuan/portion
In the United European Pavilion near the Bulgarian Rose Restaurant, not only the Bulgarian fast food, there is a "slow food".
A staff member said, taking into account that there are many tourists who want to taste the authentic Bulgarian meal, but also anxious to visit the exhibition hall, the restaurant prepared a fast food, and for some tourists who want to taste the meal, they can look at the menu, tasting the most characteristic Bulgarian cuisine.
Bulgarian Rose Restaurant's fast food is mainly based on set meals, 50 yuan / copy. The "slow food" is slightly more expensive, with a soup, entree and dessert adding up to about 140 yuan.
Australian Pavilion Prices are lower than restaurants outside the pavilion
A staff member in charge of the Australian restaurant in the pavilion said the restaurant will provide visitors with Australian beef burgers, abalone tasty set meal, Australian Lamington cake, snowy mountain water, Dole Star selected doughnuts, crispy fried butterfly prawns and other authentic Australian cuisine.
The ingredients for the dishes are shipped to Shanghai entirely from Australia. The prices of these authentic Australian delicacies are completely affordable and a bit lower than those of similar Australian restaurants.
Foreign Pavilion Food Recommendations
●French Pavilion: The Sixth Sense restaurant will serve slow-roasted candied lemon fillet, shrimp-flavored fava beans with truffle cream sauce, and desserts modeled after the exterior of the French Pavilion.
●The Thai Pavilion will offer traditional Thai dishes such as hot and sour shrimp soup, chicken curry noodles and spicy pork rice with basil leaves, as well as mild sweet and sour chicken rice.
●Swiss Pavilion: Traditional dishes such as Swiss grilled sausage and beef cooked in cream will be served.
●Norwegian Pavilion: Visitors will be offered Norwegian specialties such as salmon, Norwegian natural purified water, the Norwegian spirit Akevitt, cod liver oil, reindeer meat and lamb.
●Luxembourg Pavilion: Visitors can taste traditional Luxembourg cooking and Moselle white wine.
Expo drinks Expo bars are expensive
There are not only places to eat at the Expo site, but naturally places to drink as well. Especially in the popular European section, Germany, Ireland and Belgium and other national pavilions have created their own bar, but although the taste of wine is right, the price is not cheap.
Irish Pub
The coziest bar
Though it's called the Irish Pub, it's not right next to the Irish Pavilion, but rather between the Belgian and Polish Pavilions. This completely separate building is arguably one of the most eye-catching bars in the Eurozone.
The mahogany-colored bar and tables surround a large liquor cabinet, which also has TVs hanging on the outside to watch soccer games, basketball matches and more. The bar is not small, with dozens of square meters, and from the decoration to the design, it reflects the kind of European style from the Harry Potter movies.
Most of the people mixing and serving drinks at the bar are blonde and blue-eyed foreigners, but the waiters are all Chinese, so whether you speak English or not, you can get a drink here.
German Pavilion Bar
The purest bar
German beer is world-famous, and the bar at the German Pavilion is on fire. The German Pavilion Bar is located on the square side of the German Pavilion, so you don't have to wait in a long line to get in like in the German Pavilion. But the German Pavilion bar is so small that if there are two lines of people inside, there's no room to turn around, not to mention the fact that there are several bar tables and chairs crammed into the place.
So tourists who had bought a drink were forced to drink out of the door with their glasses. However, the bar is next to the stores, so it's also possible to take the opportunity to look around with a glass of wine in hand. The entire bar is said to be equipped with equipment shipped in from Germany.
This little bar in the German Pavilion seems a little happier than the Irish pub. Inside, groups of foreign lads shout slogans together, while others in their specialty outfits pose for photos with tourists and drinkers.
The most popular beer in the German Pavilion bar is the yellow wheat beer, which is quite pure.