as we all know, most of the food in Shanghai is sweet. If you like sweeter food, you must not miss the delicious food in Shanghai. However, the food in Shanghai is sweet, but not necessarily salty. The following small series recommends Shanghai's special cuisine to everyone.
: a must-have snack
1. Fried shrimp
One of the indispensable dishes on the table of Shanghainese is fried shrimp, which is usually made of small river shrimp. This kind of shrimp can even be eaten with its shell. The shell is golden and crisp, the shrimp meat is firm, and it tastes super good with sweet sauce.
Recommended store: Ruifuyuan
Per capita: 141 yuan
Address: No.132, Maoming South Road (near Fuxing Middle Road)
2. Braised pork
Speaking of Shanghai cuisine, there is a dish that everyone will definitely say is braised pork. This dish is basically found all over the country, but what's the difference between Shanghai dishes? Shanghai people have a sweet taste, so they use rock sugar in their dishes. Thick sauces and bright colors make them look good. Braised pork is fat and thin, not very greasy, and tastes good.
Recommended store: Lan Xin Restaurant
Per capita: 73 yuan
Address: No.131 Jinxian Road, Luwan District (near Maoming South Road)
3. Pork rape rice
The soul of this meal lies in lard. I don't know if you ever ate lard bibimbap when you were a child. It tastes really good. This is enough to make a single dish full of fragrance. Here are some finely chopped Shanghai green and bacon to get rid of greasy lard. A lot of crispy lard residue was served and it felt delicious.
Recommended store: Laoxinglong Restaurant
Per capita: 96 yuan
Address: No.528, Tianjin Road (north of Guangxi intersection)
Pickled fresh
The name of this dish may be a bit strange and difficult to pronounce, but it has its own meaning. Pickling means cured meat; Benedict means slow stew; Fresh is fresh meat. Bacon and fresh meat with bamboo shoots, simmered for a few hours on low heat, tastes really super good.
Recommended store: Lan Xin Restaurant
Per capita: 73 yuan
Address: No.131 Jinxian Road, Luwan District (near Maoming South Road)
: Traditional dim sum
1. Fried dumplings
Speaking of fried dumplings, you are definitely familiar with it. Fried dumplings are characterized by crispy skin, thick juice, fragrant meat and delicacy. Like pot stickers or pot stickers, the appearance is golden, the bottom is generally fried to crisp, and the meat is tender and juicy. It is best to eat it while it is hot, but everyone should pay attention to the soup.
recommended store:
cauldron spring (fried without soup)
This store has a high reputation. Everyone must eat raw fried dough sticks when they go to Dahuchun, which is different from those in many other places. Dahuchun's raw fried dough sticks have no soup, which is also one of his characteristics. In addition, the dough is different from Pu Ting's raw fried dough. The half-baked dough used here makes the taste thicker and softer. Per capita: 23 yuan
Address: No.136, Sichuan Middle Road
friendship village
This is an old shop with good business. Surrounding residents often patronize. The most distinctive features of their family are fried dumplings and steamed buns, with thin skin and big stuffing and plenty of juice. If you don't like the soup-free fried dumpling in Dahuchun, you can try this fried dumpling. However, their pot stickers are available in the morning and at noon. In addition, their pot stickers, big wonton, small wonton and fried pork chops are all very good.
per capita: 21 yuan
Address: No.591, siping road (near Xingang Road)
2. Steamed bread
Steamed buns in Shanghai are thin and juicy, and they taste fresh and salty. Generally divided into crab powder and fresh meat. When eating steamed stuffed buns, there is another formula, that is, "lift it gently, move it slowly, open the window first, then drink soup, and finally sweep it away." .
Recommended store: Wanshouzhai
Per capita: 18 yuan
Address: No.123, Yin Shan Road (near Jixiang Road)
3. Four donkey kong
The so-called four are big cakes, fried dough sticks, soybean milk and dumplings. This is the most classic breakfast in Shanghai, but now many young people like to take it as a midnight snack. Not much to say about fried dough sticks. Authentic Shanghai cakes are baked in an oven, which are mainly divided into two kinds: salty and sweet. And sweet and salty rice balls. The sweet one is bean paste, and the salty one is mustard tuber, meat floss and so on.
recommended store: breakfast can be bought in many places in the vegetable market.
: seasonal food
1.*** Youth League
Actually, Youth League is eaten during Qingming Festival. It is mainly made by mixing the juice of wormwood into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapping it with bean paste and lotus seed paste. The taste is not sweet or greasy, just right.
recommended store: Xinghua Building (Head Office)
Per capita: 113 yuan
Address: 2nd floor, No.343 Fuzhou Road (near Shandong Middle Road)
2. Fresh meat moon cakes
Eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival is a tradition. Many low-key and high-profile mooncakes are sweet, but Shanghainese mooncakes have sweet dishes with pork in them, which is salty. The fresh skin of moon cakes is crisp, pink and a little tough, and the fresh meat juice permeates it, which is super delicious. As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches every year, many Shanghainese are willing to queue for two or three hours and drive for dozens of kilometers just to buy fresh meat and moon cakes.
Recommended store: Wangjiasha (Head Office)
Per capita: 41 yuan
Address: No.815, Nanjing West Road (near Shimen No.1 Road)
3. saury noodles
The most famous place to eat saury noodles in Shanghai is Boss Village. Strictly speaking, the noodles with swordfish in this shop are "noodles with swordfish sauce", because there is no fish in the noodles in this shop, but their soup is made with swordfish. The soup of saury noodles is thick and white as milk. Although you can't eat fish, the delicious fish is already in the noodles.
recommended store: boss village
per capita: 51 yuan
Address: No.611, Fuzhou Road.