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However, for people from other places, to understand a city thoroughly, they must integrate into the local food culture. Today, let's take stock. The most famous 10 snacks in Shanghai, each of which is the favorite of Shanghainese. How much did you eat?
1. Babel Duck
Babel duck is one of the top ten classic dishes in Shanghai, and it is also a special dish in Shanghai.
The making method of eight-treasure duck is to wash the whole duck with clear water, then blanch it, and smear it with soy sauce, sugar, yellow wine, etc. On duck meat, open the back and fill in various ingredients, such as diced mushrooms, diced bamboo shoots, diced ham, diced chestnuts, diced scallops and diced chicken.
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These side dishes are fried with seasoning in advance, and then the eight-treasure duck is steamed in a steamer with high fire. After taking it out of the steamer, pour in shrimps and green beans prepared with raw salt water.
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The cooking of babao duck is more complicated, and there are many kinds of ingredients. It tastes delicious, salty and soft, and the mixture of various ingredients tastes very good.
2. steamed bread
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Thin skin and tender meat, juicy and delicious, you will fall in love with it when you eat it! In particular, the newly baked small cage is white and crystal clear, small and exquisite, and shaped like a pagoda. Take a bite, and the soup lingers on the tip of your tongue, with endless aftertaste.
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Remember, eating small cages should follow four formulas to avoid burns. Lift it gently, move it slowly, open the window first, and then suck the soup.
3. scallion cake
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For Shanghainese, scallion cake definitely has a special memory, which will bring back many good memories.
The scallion cake just out of the pot is round and golden, and there is a little flint red color on the porcelain bottom ring.
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Authentic Shanghai onion cake, sprinkled with green chopped green onion, mixed with crystal clear lard, has a strong onion flavor. Take a gentle bite, first of all, it is full of crispness, followed by a thick onion fragrance, and I fell in love with it once and couldn't extricate myself.
4. Crab shell yellow
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This is a local specialty snack in Shanghai. It is called crab shell yellow because its shape is similar to crab shell.
Authentic crab shell yellow is made of crispy dough and round cakes, then sprinkled with sesame seeds and baked on the furnace wall.
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After baking, it looks like a crab shell, hence its name. The crab shell that just came out of the pot is yellow, crisp, soft, loose and fragrant, which is the favorite of tea drinkers. When foreigners come to Shanghai, they must try. It's really good.
5. Begonia cake
Begonia cake was created in the Qing Dynasty, and it was named after it looked like a begonia flower.
The traditional crab-apple cake is baked in a special mold with flour crust on the outer layer and bean paste stuffing inside, which is sweet and delicious.
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However, it is difficult to know the authentic Begonia Cake in Shanghai now. I'm afraid some foreigners or a little younger locals don't know what Begonia Cake is.
6. Shanghai braised pork
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Shanghai braised pork is one of the top ten classic dishes in Shanghai, and it is a meat dish that many Shanghainese like to eat. The taste of Shanghai braised pork: soft and slightly sweet, melting in the mouth, soft and rotten, is a very good famous dish.
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Shanghai braised pork is mainly made of pork belly, which is washed and cut into small pieces and blanched for later use. Pour cooking oil into the pot, add sugar into the hot oil and stir fry.
Add appropriate amount of clear water, add spices such as soy sauce, light soy sauce, star anise and cinnamon, boil over high fire, stew for about 1 hour, and finally collect juice over high fire.
7.chopped green onion noodles
Although the method of mixing noodles with scallion oil is simple, it is the memory of a generation of Shanghainese. As the most traditional snack in Shanghai, noodles with scallion oil can be used to describe Shanghainese Le Hui.
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It is not only cheap, but also can fill the stomach and has a strong onion flavor. Whether it's Zhajiang Noodles in Beijing, oil-sprinkled noodles in Shaanxi, Xiao noodles in Chongqing or Dandan Noodles in Sichuan ... In the eyes of authentic Shanghainese, it's not as delicious as a bowl of noodles with scallion oil.
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In the life of the magic capital from six to nine, only a bowl of steaming chopped green onion noodles can cure your restless stomach