1. City God Temple spiced beans. The spiced beans in Chenghuang Temple are exquisite in materials and suitable in heat. The raw materials used are specially selected from broad beans produced in Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province, and the selection is extremely strict. Neither yellow-skinned beans nor moth-eaten beans can be used. All green-skinned beans should be used, washed and boiled in water. Cooking is done with a binocular cooker with a clear water pot and a sugar water pot on it. When the water temperature in the clear water pot reaches about 61 degrees Celsius, put the washed broad beans in, cook for a while, and fish them in the sugar water pot after they are cooked. Half an hour or so, when you see salt flowers on the bean skin, you can take the pot and air the beans in a bamboo container, cool thoroughly and dry them to get spiced beans. The skin is thin and fluffy, the salt and frost are even, and the chewing is soft and waxy. It tastes delicious and sweet in the mouth, and it has no flavor.
2. Crab soup packets. Mix flour with water and knead thoroughly, leave it for a while, chop pork into minced meat, chop it in crab, add lard to the pot, heat it, add crab meat, crab roe and Jiang Mo to stir-fry crab oil, and mix with minced meat, skin jelly, soy sauce and cooking wine to make stuffing; Knead the dough into long strips, pull it into 4 dough pieces per 51g, roll it into a round skin, add stuffing and knead it into a pleated bag, and steam it in a steamer with high heat for 11 minutes.
3. Shanghai masha glutinous rice balls. Shanghai's mashed glutinous rice balls have a history of more than 71 years. In the old days, a earthen earthen sand basin with shuttle-shaped lines on the inner wall was used first, and then a hard pomegranate wood was used as a "mashing stick" to grind the pulp. Stir-fried dried beans, such as peanuts, sesame seeds or soybeans, were put into the sand basin to dry grind the "fragrant sand" into powder. Finally, the cooked dumplings rolled around in the "fragrant sand", so the sticky glutinous rice balls were covered with the fragrant sand, hence the name "rolling sand dumplings". Some restaurants regard it as a ready-to-eat snack, and what they want to eat is the fresh feeling that a bite of stuffing gushes out like quicksand.
4. proper fruit. Proper fruit is a traditional product in Shanghai-style cakes, and people often describe its shape as "seven twists and eight bends". There is a custom in rural areas of Shanghai suburbs, that is, when newly-married women go to their parents' homes on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month (commonly known as Qiao Day), they all bring some proper fruit back from their parents' homes and give it to their husbands. Therefore, the production season in proper fruit is around the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year.