Old Zhengxing Restaurant.

The old Zhengxing restaurant was founded in the first year of the Tongzhi reign, so far has a history of more than a hundred years, is Shanghai's most prestigious operation of the "Shanghai local dishes" flavor of one of the restaurants. The existing set of unique cooking techniques, become a unique management of authentic Shanghai cuisine brand-name enterprises, famous at home and abroad. In Shanghai, a world-class cosmopolitan city, food culture can be said to have a long history.

There are many different kinds of dishes in Shanghai, and Shanghai people call them "local dishes" to refer to the local flavors of Shanghai. If you ask which of the Shanghai local dishes is the most authentic, when the first push "old Zhengxing restaurant". Old Zhengxing Restaurant" is the earliest restaurant in Shanghai since the opening of the port, founded in the first year of the Qing Dynasty (1862), has a history of 152 years, and is the originator of Shanghai's Shanghainese cuisine.

History of Old Zhengxing Restaurant

"Old Zhengxing" was located in the former Continental Shopping Mall (formerly known as the Fototomobile) at Lane 350, Jiujiang Road, Shanghai. After the business is very good, some restaurants will pretend to hang "Zhengxing" signboard, so Zhu, Cai two people will be in the "Zhengxing" two words before the word "old".

From then on, "Zhengxing Hall" became "Old Zhengxing Hall". "Old Zhengxing" at first to operate the hometown flavor of the river seafood-based dishes, salted meat leaves, grass carp tofu, fried fish noodle skin, intestinal soup noodles, bad bowl head, etc. are Zhengxing Museum of regular dishes. As Shanghai was rapidly developing into an important commercial port on the south coast of the Yangtze River, Chinese and foreign merchants gathered.

Specifically, the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang flocked to Shanghai with more and more rich and powerful merchants and common people, which greatly stimulated the development of the economy, and of course also stimulated the prosperity of Shanghai restaurants.