Babao Hot Sauce

Babao Hot Sauce is one of the famous Shanghai specialties. It uses eight kinds of poultry, meat, vegetables and fruits as the main raw materials, and is cooked by mixing and frying. The taste is fragrant and spicy, hence the name "Babao Hot Sauce". Due to the diverse raw materials of the dish, it is rich in color, moist and bright, fresh and slightly spicy, and moderately salty and sweet.

Bai Zhan Chicken

“Speaking of Bai Zhan Chicken, it’s Little Shaoxing” has become a mantra of many Shanghainese. Because "Little Shaoxing" selects the famous "Three Yellow Chicken" produced in Pudong, Shanghai, with good quality and delicious taste, it has won the favor of customers. "Little Shaoxing" has also become a famous store in Shanghai.

Sear oil eel paste

This dish uses fresh eel as raw material. The eel slaughtered on the same day is cut into pieces, then seasoned and stir-fried. The color is deep red, oily but not greasy, fresh and delicious.

Crab shell yellow

Use pastry and fermented dough to make a flat round cake, with a layer of sesame on the surface. Pasted on the wall of the oven and cooked, it becomes round in shape and yellow in color like a crab shell. The fillings include scallion oil, fresh meat, sugar, bean paste, etc. Wuyuan Bakery at the intersection of Shimen 1st Road and Weihai Road is a famous shop that supplies crab shell roe.

Baowang Potstickers

According to legend, the Empress Dowager Cixi loved eating dumplings very much, but she would not eat them once they were cold, so the Yushan kitchen kept throwing away the cold dumplings and cooking them hot. of. One day, the Queen Mother went to the back garden and smelled a fragrance coming from outside the palace wall. She walked out of the palace out of curiosity and saw someone cooking something that looked like dumplings. After taking a bite, she felt that the skin was crispy and the filling was juicy, which was quite delicious. Then I realized that these dumplings were discarded by the imperial kitchen. They could not be boiled when they were cold, so they were fried and eaten hot. Later, they were improved and evolved into today's pot stickers. The bottom of the pot stickers is dark yellow, crispy, the dough is soft and tough, and the fillings are delicious. The shape of pot stickers varies from place to place, but generally depends on the shape. Pot stickers are a popular snack. Shanghai's Baowang pot stickers are shaped like gold ingots. They are rich in meat and well-made. They are filled with soup and oily, and the bottom is crispy and fragrant. They are delicious and are well received by consumers. .

Fried Dried Stinky Tofu

Stinky tofu has always been a traditional snack that smells stinky and tastes delicious. The fried stinky tofu is even more addictive. Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, coated with various sauces and eaten, it will make people have endless aftertaste.

Braised lion's head

The so-called lion's head is made of pork balls cooked with soy sauce and other condiments. I have only heard that ducks and snakes can be eaten both ways. It turns out that braised lion head can also be eaten in two ways. One is pork dumplings, which are steamed, braised, poured with sauce, added with special ingredients, and processed specially so that people can only smell the aroma without feeling greasy. The second method is to add white crab powder based on the first method, so that it has the fragrance of meat and the freshness of seafood.

Fengyu Shengjian

Fengyu Shengjian and fried tofu and vermicelli soup, once famous in old Shanghai, are still the signatures of Fengyu Restaurant. Because the price is cheap and the quantity is large. It can be used as both a staple food and a snack. Chinese fast food restaurants like this one are quite popular in Shanghai.

Little Shaoxing Chicken Porridge

The Little Shaoxing Chicken Porridge restaurant is named after the operator is from Shaoxing. The specialty of chicken porridge is glutinous rice porridge cooked with chicken stock. The chicken skin is crispy and the bones are fragrant. The meat is white, tender and delicious, and you can eat it endlessly. The Little Shaoxing Chicken Porridge Shop is located on Yunnan South Road and has been famous for a long time.

Crispy squab

This kind of squab takes about 28 days from birth to adulthood and weighs 8 taels or 1 catty. Under the careful preparation of the chef, it is roasted until browned and served with special seasonings. The meat is fresh and tender, and it tastes charred on the outside and tender on the inside. It is suitable for all ages. Crispy squab is also called one-yuan pigeon. After customers spend a certain amount in the restaurant, they can buy this plate of authentic Shanghai specialties for only 1 yuan. This is a typical example of eating big and spending a small amount of money.

Nanxiang Xiaolongbao

Nanxiang Xiaolongbao is a famous traditional snack in Nanxiang Town, a suburb of Shanghai. Because of its compact shape and thin translucent skin, it is steamed in a special small bamboo basket, so it is called "Xiao Long Bao". There are also two famous shops that make xiaolongbao in the city. One is Nanxiang Steamed Bread Shop in Yuyuan Mall, and the other is Guyiyuan Dim Sum Shop at the intersection of Xizang Road and Yan'an Road.

Qingtuan

Qingtuan is bright green in color and is a kind of rice flour dumpling with grass juice added. The taste is light and slightly fragrant. Every Qingming Festival, Shanghai people have the custom of eating Qingtuan.