Ben Gang Cuisine is an alternative name for Shanghai cuisine, which is an important school of food culture characterized by the Wu-Yue characteristics of Jiangnan.

Ben Gang literally means local. Local dishes are characterized by thick oil and red sauce, moderate saltiness, keeping the original flavor, mellow and fresh. Commonly used cooking methods to braised, simmered, sugar-based. In order to adapt to the Shanghai people like to eat light and refreshing taste, dishes gradually by the original heavy oil red sauce tends to light and refreshing. This dish is good at cooking methods with bad, distinctive flavor of Jiangnan.

Early 20th century, Shanghai, Su, tin, Chang, Ning, Hui and other 16 local flavors, the Shanghai people called Su Gang Cuisine, Hui Gang Cuisine, and the local flavor, known as the local cuisine.

Extended information:

Ben Gang Cuisine in the early stages of the main local fish and shrimp and vegetables, braised, steamed, simmered, deep-fried, bad, raw stir-frying is long, the dishes are thick oil and red sauce, salty and light to taste. Later this gang dish color, taste thick, because the marinade penetrates into the interior of the dish, especially flavorful, but there is no lack of light and elegant, fresh and beautiful.

The famous dishes of this gang cuisine, thick oil and red sauce of the representative dishes are pot roasted river eel, Buddha's hand belly, oil sauce hairy crabs, ringing oil eel paste, braised back to the fish, cassoulet chestnut chicken, etc.; light and elegant representative of the dish is bad goods, such as bad chicken, bad pig's claw, bad wild rice, etc.; capers and spring asparagus, crystal shrimp, ice sugar turtle, hibiscus chicken, etc. more tender and light; and buckle three silk with ham, chicken breast, pork cut into thin silk, to the knife work The best of the best.

In addition to the above famous dishes, the local cuisine also includes traditional Shanghai snacks, such as Shanghai Xiaolongbao, as well as many of Shanghai's famous chefs combined with Western desserts to create a variety of well-conceived flavors of the snacks.

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