Shanghai cuisine. Alias also called the local food, Shanghai cuisine is one of China's local flavor dishes, but also the Jiangnan region of traditional food culture is one of the important band table. Zhejiang cuisine. Belonging to one of the eight cuisines, Zhejiang Cuisine is rich in Jiangnan characteristics, long history, long history, is China's famous local dishes.

Shanghai cuisine does not belong to the eight major Chinese cuisine. Benbang Cuisine, Benbang on behalf of that is local, is a major cuisine developed by the Shanghai region itself, it is commonly used cooking methods are mainly braised, simmered, sugar-based, with a strong flavor of the Jiangnan region. There are many characteristics of Shanghai cuisine, for example, in the selection of materials, Shanghai cuisine selection of fresh materials, mainly seasonal vegetables and fresh ingredients. Secondly, in terms of the variety of dishes, each season has its representative dishes, which are different in all seasons. Zhejiang cuisine originated from the Hemudu culture in the Neolithic Age, and the basic style of Zhejiang cuisine has been formed through the pioneering and accumulation of the ancestors of Yue, the maturity and finalization in the Han and Tang Dynasties, the prosperity in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and the development in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Zhejiang cuisine has a long history. Huang Di "Nei Jing - Su Wen - guide method Fang Yi theory" said: "the city of the Orient, heaven and earth began to be born, fishing and salt land, the waterfront along the waterfront, its people salt salt, salt-loving, are safe in its place, the beauty of its food". The historical record - cargo colon biography" in the "Chu Yue's land? Rice and rice soup fish" records. This shows that Zhejiang cooking has been thousands of years of history. In addition, our country's archaeologists in 1973 from zhejiang yuyao hemudu excavation of an early neolithic culture site, unearthed artifacts in a large number of indica rice, grain shells and a lot of rhombus, gourd, jujube kernel and pig, deer, tiger, moose (four like), rhinoceros, geese, crows, eagles, fish, turtles, crocodiles and so on more than 40 kinds of animal remains. At the same time, pottery ancient stove and a number of kettles, jars, pots, pans, plates, bowls and other pottery for living were also excavated. According to scientists, these artifacts are about 7,000 years old, is the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, one of the earliest strata of the Neolithic Age has been found on the southeast coast.