Brief introduction of Shanghai cuisine
One of the Top Ten Snacks in Old Shanghai: Crab Shell Yellow
Crab shell yellow is named for its round and yellow shape like crab shell. Crab shell yellow is made of crispy fried dough and fermented flour, made into flat round cakes, covered with sesame seeds and baked on the wall of the oven. This kind of cake tastes delicious, salty and sweet, and its crust is crisp. Someone wrote a poem praising it, "I didn't see the cake maker smell the fragrance first, and the cakes came down one after another." Crab shell yellow has salty and sweet fillings. Salty ones include scallion oil, fresh meat, crab powder and shrimp. Sweet ones are sugar, rose, red bean paste, jujube paste and other varieties. This product is the best product made by Wuwan Bakery at the intersection of Ahava Road, Shimen No.1 Road.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Little Shaoxing Chicken Porridge
The chicken porridge operated by Shaoxing Chicken Porridge Store is an authentic Shanghai-style snack. This shop was founded by Shaoxing people on 1947. Because the founders and main operators are from Shaoxing, a world of small Shaoxing people has formed here, so people named it "Little Shaoxing Chicken Porridge Shop". Shaoxing chicken porridge is a snack cooked with chicken soup, with chicken and various seasonings. When eating chicken porridge, cut the cooked chicken into pieces 3 cm long and 0.6 cm wide, put it on a plate, put the chicken porridge in a bowl, add onion, Jiang Mo and chicken oil, and eat together. At this time, the chicken porridge is yellow with green, and the chicken is white and bright, which is pleasing to the eye and greatly increases the appetite. When tasting, the chicken porridge is sticky and smooth, fresh and delicious, and the chicken is tender and refreshing, rich in nutrition, and the more you eat, the more fragrant it becomes. This delicious food is run by Shanghai Xiao Shaoxing Chicken Porridge Shop.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Chicken Fried Steamed Bread
Fried chicken steamed bread is a special snack in Shanghai. This snack is made of fermented white flour as the skin and cooked diced chicken breast, minced pork sandwich, frozen skin and sesame oil as the stuffing. The tip of the wrapped steamed bread should also be dipped in chopped green onion and sesame seeds, and the surface layer should be brushed with plain oil and fried in an oil pan. The product is full in shape, and the upper part is Huang Chengcheng sesame and green chopped green onion, which is soft and delicious. The lower body is crispy and delicious, with heavy stuffing and more juice, which is more fragrant. This kind of dim sum is made by Shanghai Wangjiasha Dim Sum Shop.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Bad Snacks
Shanghai's bad snails are famous specialty snacks. This snack is made of big and fat longan snails produced in Tunxi County, Anhui Province. After entering the store, keep it in clear water for two days to make it spit out sediment, then put it in a pot, add fennel and cinnamon and cook for a long time. Finally, put the cooked snails on the aged grain to make the grain. This bad snail is brownish gray, fresh and tender in meat, mellow in juice, delicious in taste and very popular. This is a famous specialty snack of Shanghai Wuweizhai and Lai Xiande Dim Sum Restaurant.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Rib Rice Cake
Rib rice cake is an economical and unique snack in Shanghai, which has a history of more than 50 years. There are two kinds of famous ribs rice cakes in Shanghai-"Little Changzhou" and "Rare". "Little Changzhou" ribs rice cake is made from pig spines in Changzhou and Wuxi. After pickling with soy sauce, put it into an oil pan filled with soy sauce, oil, sugar, minced onion and ginger, wine, etc. Take it out when the color is purple, the meat is fresh and tender, and the taste is rich. At the same time, after Songjiang rice is cooked, put it in a stone mortar and beat it repeatedly with a hammer. Beat until the rice is not whole, take it out, cut 20 pieces every 500 grams, each piece is wrapped with a small piece of blanched pork ribs, and then put it in a soy sauce pot to cook. When eating, sprinkle with spiced powder, which not only has the fragrance of ribs, but also has the softness and crispness of rice cakes, which is very delicious. Fresh-baked pork ribs rice cake is made by mixing flour, water chestnut, spiced powder and eggs, soaking them on the surface of pork ribs and then blanching them in oil. This kind of ribs is golden in color, crispy in skin and tender in meat. At the same time, add sweet noodle sauce to Songjiang rice, red soy sauce and ribs, and pour Chili sauce on them. The entrance glutinous rice is fragrant, slightly sweet and spicy, fresh and palatable. The "Little Changzhou" ribs rice cake in Shanghai Shuguang Hotel and the "Rare" ribs rice cake in the snack bar are the most distinctive.
The sixth of the top ten snacks in old Shanghai: Nanxiang steamed bread
Nanxiang steamed bread, also known as Nanxiang steamed buns, is a traditional snack in nanxiang town, a suburb of Shanghai, with a history of 100 years. This product is famous for its thin skin, rich stuffing, heavy brine and delicious taste, and it is one of the flavor snacks welcomed by customers at home and abroad. The stuffing of Nanxiang steamed bread is made of sandwich leg meat, with no onion and garlic added, only a little Jiang Mo, frozen skin, salt, soy sauce, sugar and water sprinkled. The skin of steamed bread is made of unfermented refined flour, 50 grams of flour can be wrapped in 8 pieces, and 100 grams is a steamer. Steamed steamed bread is small and exquisite, shaped like a pagoda, translucent and strong, crystal clear and yellow, and you will drool when you bite a bag of soup. If you eat it with shredded ginger, balsamic vinegar and a bowl of shredded chicken soup, it will taste better. The stuffing of Nanxiang steamed stuffed bun can also change with the seasons. Add shrimp in early summer and crab meat, crab roe and crab oil in autumn. Nanxiang steamed bread in Yuyuan Shopping Mall is one of the famous snacks in Yuyuan Shopping Mall.
Seven of the Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Kaiyang Scallion Noodles
Kaiyang chopped green onion noodle is a famous snack in Shanghai. Kaiyang is very particular about the method of making scallion noodles. First, it cuts the scallion into inches, and then it is fried in a warm oil pan (the cooked scallion oil is dark red and yellow in color, which has a strong scallion flavor and can increase appetite). Then add onion oil to Kaiyang, which is fried with vegetable oil and soaked in wine and sugar, to make onion oil. Cook the noodles, drain the soup and mix with onion oil, which is Kaiyang onion oil noodles. This kind of noodles is bright in color, smooth and refreshing to eat, delicious in shrimp, rich in onion flavor and rich in nutrition, and very popular. Kaiyang chopped green onion noodle is a special snack in Shanghai Hubin Dim Sum Restaurant, and it is also one of the famous snacks in Chenghuang Temple.
Eight of the Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Su Bao
Su Bao is a vegetarian restaurant with special snacks in Yuelou, Fengchunsong, Shanghai. This restaurant has a history of more than 70 years. This is a vegetarian restaurant, which combines the flavors of Beijing, Jiangsu and Yang Bang, as well as the local flavor of Shanghai. The vegetarian dishes in this shop, such as assorted vegetables, fried mushrooms, arhat Zhai, mushroom crispy soup, fried crab powder and gluten noodles, are quite famous in Shanghai, especially the vegetarian dishes made in this shop are very famous and popular. The vegetarian bag is made of refined white flour, and the stuffing is made of chopped vegetables, gluten, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots and spiced dried tofu, and mixed with spices such as sesame oil and sugar. After the wrapped vegetarian dishes are steamed in the cage, the skin is white and soft, and the filling is green and bright. Open the cage, the house is fragrant, and the food is delicious and refreshing. If you eat a lot, you will never get tired of it. You can taste this snack at Feng Chunsong Yuelou vegetarian restaurant in Shanghai Yuyuan Shopping Center.
Nine of the Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Youmian Steamed Bread
Fu You steamed bread is a special snack made by Shen Zao Dacheng Dim Sum Restaurant, a century-old Shanghai store. The oily steamed bread in this shop has absorbed the advantages of many people: the steamed bread skin is made of Nanxiang steamed bread, rolled with unfermented fine powder, and the stuffing is made of Huaiyang boutique soup packets. The meat stuffing is mixed with bone soup, and mixed with seasonings made of onion, ginger and garlic. When frying, the technology of frying shortcake is similar to that of frying shortcake. This carefully processed steamed bread has a small and exquisite shape, golden skin, beautiful color, crisp taste, fresh and tender meat, overflowing soup, fat but not greasy. After eating, my teeth and cheeks are fragrant and my mouth is full of saliva. If you eat it while it is hot, it will be memorable.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Dashayuan
Shayuan is one of the famous flavor spots of Qiaojiazha Dim Sum Restaurant in Shanghai, which has a history of more than 70 years. According to legend, at the end of Qing Dynasty, there was an old lady named Lei in Sanpailou, Shanghai. In order to make jiaozi easy to store and carry, she pioneered the method of rolling white powder on the surface of cooked jiaozi. In order to commemorate her, later generations named jiaozi as a sand ball. The sand-grinding meatballs operated by Qiaojiazha Dim Sum Shop are made by cooking red beans in Dahongpao, Chongming County, grinding them into sand and then drying them into purple powder. Then, the glutinous rice dumplings with fresh meat, bean paste, sesame seeds and other fillings are cooked, drained and rolled with a layer of bean paste powder. This kind of jiaozi is bright in color, rich in fragrance, rich in red bean flavor when eaten hot, soft, waxy and refreshing, and easy to carry, which has always been popular with tourists.
Appendix:
Shanghai's famous local cuisines include: sweet-scented osmanthus sugar lotus root, pigeon eggs glutinous dumplings, golden melons, pickled melons, pigeon lobster slices, Songjiang four-gill perch, Shao Wansheng's southern flavor food, Shaoxing boiled chicken, Daoxiang village duck gizzard, Fengjing Dinghoof, Beijing Rufu, dried beans, peaches, snow melons, Town God Temple spiced beans and Shanghai pear paste.