Ben Gang Cuisine refers to the local flavor of Shanghai dishes, characteristics can be used to thick oil and red sauce (more oil, taste, sugar, color) to sum up. Commonly used cooking methods to braise, simmering sugar-based, taste salty and sweet, oil but not greasy.

The birth of the local food was not in the beginning of the hall, homely, civilian is its characteristics. Bald lung, circle, pickled fresh, soybean soup, these ordinary, cheap raw materials are the vitality of this dish. Later, constantly absorbing the strengths of foreign dishes, some of the local food halls created a lookout dishes, and the emergence of a number of local food famous chef, greatly improving the taste of local food.

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Shanghai cuisine has many distinctive characteristics. p>Shanghai cuisine has many distinctive features:

1, pay attention to the selection of fresh ingredients. It selects seasonal vegetables, fish are mainly products of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, take live for the top, all year round there are live fish for guests to choose from, killed on the spot live cooking.

2, more varieties of dishes, the four seasons are different.

3, pay attention to cooking methods and constantly improve. Shanghai cuisine was originally burned, steamed, simmered, nest, fried, and gradually turned to burn, raw stir-frying, stir-frying, steaming-based, in which the raw care stir-fry, stir-frying for the most especially good cooking seasonal river food.

4, the taste has also changed a lot. The original Shanghai cuisine to thick soup, thick sweat and thick flavors, and then gradually become a moderate marinade, there are light and elegant, but also thick oil and red sauce, pay attention to tender, color tone, fresh and salty mouthfeel. Especially in the summer and fall seasons of the bad taste dishes, rich in flavor, quite distinctive.

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