Babao Chili sauce is a traditional famous dish in Shanghai, which is bright in color, delicious and spicy. It is improved from fried hot sauce. "Babao Chili sauce" is spicy, fresh and slightly sweet, very tasty and deeply loved by diners. Later, some restaurants in Shanghai followed suit, and "Babao Chili sauce" was widely circulated.
In the 1940s, the chefs of Tonghe Restaurant in Jiujiang Road referred to the cooking method of Shanghai local dish "Family Portrait", poured a shrimp "cap" on the fried spicy sauce, and adjusted and enriched the raw materials of the fried spicy sauce, cooking with eight main raw materials, so it was called "eight treasures spicy sauce".