There are many food specialties in Shanghai, including: pear paste candy, spiced beans, hairy crabs, and cowhide candy.

pear cream candy

Shanghai pear cream candy is a traditional famous spot of Han nationality in Shanghai, one of the time-honored products in China, and a famous specialty. Pear cream sugar is made of pure white sugar (excluding maltose, essence and pigment) and 14 kinds of domestic fine medicinal materials (ground powder) such as almond, Fritillaria cirrhosa, Pinellia ternata and Poria. The taste is sweet as honey, loose and crisp, not greasy and sticky, fragrant and palatable, neat in block shape, beautiful in packaging, excellent in quality and remarkable in curative effect.

spiced bean

spiced bean, also known as creamed spiced bean, is a well-known Han snack in Shanghai. This food was initiated by Guoji Xinglong Spiced Bean Store in Shanghai Old Town God Temple, so it is also called creamed spiced bean in Town God Temple. Before 1931, Shanghai had small green bean food baked with cinnamon, fennel and other spices, which was very popular among citizens everywhere.

hairy crabs

Eriocheir sinensis often burrows in the mud banks of rivers, rivers and lakes, hides in the daytime and comes out at night, and feeds on animal carcasses or grains. The back of the head and chest is covered with a layer of hard carapace, which is called the head and chest armor. The carapace is generally dark green and sometimes ochre yellow. There are powerful appendages to the chest, which are pectoral feet. There are five pairs, including one pair of pincers and four pairs of walking feet.

candy with cowhide

candy with cowhide is known as "a must in Yangzhou" and is also a specialty of Shanghai. Sweet taste, even sesame seeds on the outer layer, brown and bright cut surface, translucent, elastic, fragrant, chewy and non-sticky, which enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. It has been on the market in Yangzhou as early as the dry and fine years of the Qing Dynasty.