When you fall in love with a city, you usually start with delicious food. Classic snacks are called "dim sum" by Shanghainese. There are many kinds of breakfasts in Shanghai, such as fried-dumpling, fried-dumpling, steamed stuffed bun, steamed bread and hemp ball, all of which are delicious breakfasts you can choose in the morning. However, in the hearts of old Shanghainese, the most classic breakfast is the "four donkey kong"-pie, soybean milk, fried dough sticks and rice balls.

Old Shanghainese humorously call their favorite four kinds of breakfast "Four donkey kong". They are like the legendary four gods guarding Tianmen, and it seems that with their company, they will feel steadfast and satisfied when they welcome the arrival of a new day.

The ingredients of "Four donkey kong" are cheap and simple to make, but they are full of flavor and proper nutrition. From being the protagonist of the morning market in the streets and lanes in the past, it has now become the taste memory of old Shanghai. People's love for them has gone far beyond the meaning of breakfast itself, and they are almost an indispensable symbol of the city.

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Deep-fried dough sticks

I like to see that the masters of deep-fried dough sticks concentrate on frying deep-fried dough sticks. They fry long strips of dough in a pan, and the dough gradually expands, until it is golden on both sides and floats on the oil surface, which is a great success.

Fried dough sticks with crispy outside and soft inside should be eaten while they are hot. Shanghainese like to cut them and dip them in soy sauce, but I like to fold them in half and roll them with the pie.

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Pancake

This is a kind of bread baked in the oven and sprinkled with sesame seeds. After the fermented dough is squashed, it comes into close contact with fire, and a burst of burnt wheat and sesame fragrance wafts in, and the pie is made.

There are salty and sweet cakes, and the salty cakes are mostly long and fragrant. Most of the sweets are round, and I like caramel stuffing best, which is especially delicious. No matter whether it is salty or sweet, the pie is always heavy and solid, and it is especially satisfying after eating.

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Soybean milk

Authentic old Shanghai soybean milk is as salty and sweet as pie. Most Shanghainese like to drink salted soybean milk with spicy oil, pickled mustard tuber and shrimp skin.

For people who are used to drinking sweet soybean milk like me, this new way of eating for the first time is not exclusive, but also likes the pure taste of this soybean after grinding.

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Nifan

Shanghainese especially like to wrap fried dough sticks, pickled mustard tuber, sausages and other different ingredients in the center of rice balls. The steamed glutinous rice balls are full of sweetness and chewiness, and they are eaten together with different ingredients, which is a great satisfaction.

Some people say that rice balls are not four donkey kong, but rice cakes are. What I want to explain here is that the rice cake is not a rice ball. The rice cake is to fry a square piece of rice in an oil pan until it is golden. No matter who is the donkey kong, the key point is that they are all delicious ~

I recommend Taoyuan Family Village, a refreshment shop in Modu. Personally, I like Taoyuan Family Village in Nanfeng City, and its neat and indifferent decoration style is impressive. The calligraphy written on the wall is "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust, loyalty, filial piety, shame and courage".

Come here and try some classic collocation, such as soybean milk with fried dough sticks. Although the store is table-top salty paste, it is actually very similar to the salty paste on the breakfast stand in Shanghai. However, the soybean milk in their house is very strong. If you don't eat it quickly, it will condense into tofu, sprinkled with seaweed, and it tastes delicious.

what should I do if I can't come to Shanghai, but I want to eat the healthy and delicious "Four donkey kong"? Bread and fried dough sticks have higher requirements on the frying temperature. If you have soy milk, you should have a soymilk machine at home, but you can cook rice at home and it is very simple to operate. If you like rice, you can refer to the following practices.

the ingredients of rice balls

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glutinous rice &; Rice (1: 1 ratio)

white sugar/fried black sesame

floss/fried dough sticks/plastic wrap

how to make rice balls

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1. Glutinous rice and rice (1: 1 ratio), washed and soaked for two hours, then cooked into rice in an electric cooker (note that the amount of water is less than usual);

2. Take a piece of plastic wrap, spread it out, dip it in cold boiled water with a spoon to prevent sticking, scoop a lump of rice on the plastic wrap, spread it out with a spoon and press it tightly;

3. Sprinkle a layer of white sugar mixed with black sesame powder on the rice, and then spread a layer of pork floss;

4. finally, put half of the fried dough sticks in it, pick up the plastic wrap, roll it up, and twist it tightly with a little force to form a rice ball.

"Four donkey kong", the most classic breakfast in Shanghainese's heart, is becoming increasingly difficult to find a stall to sell them. If you can't find the "Four donkey kong", you might as well cook a healthy and delicious breakfast for yourself at home ~