when you go to Shanghai, you must try some local dishes. Many dishes are delicious. The following small series introduces you to related foods. You can choose your favorite food according to your own needs. Let's see what food you have.
Must punch food
When you come to Shanghai, you must not miss these local foods!
1. Fried shrimp
Fried shrimp is a frequent visitor on the dining table of Shanghainese. River shrimp can even be "fried" and eaten together with shells. The golden crispy shell is wrapped in tight shrimp meat and sweet sauce, which is absolutely not enough!
Recommended store: Ruifuyuan
Business hours: Monday to Sunday from 11: to 14: to 17: to 21: 3.
per capita: 141 yuan
Address: No.132 Maoming South Road (near Fuxing Middle Road)
2. Braised pork
Braised pork is definitely one of the local specialties. What's the difference between this dish spread all over the country and that in Shanghai? Sweet Shanghainese will use rock sugar in their dishes, from which thick sauces and bright colors come. Thin braised pork tastes oily but not greasy, and the oil perfectly neutralizes the dry wood of lean meat, which melts in the mouth.
Recommended store: Lan Xin Restaurant
Business hours: Monday to Sunday from 11: to 14: to 17: to 22: .
per capita: 73 yuan
Address: No.13 Jinxian Road, Luwan District (near Maoming South Road)
3. Pork rape rice
The soul of vegetable rice lies in lard, which makes vegetable rice full of flavor immediately. Fine chopped Shanghai green is added with some bacon to remove the greasy of lard. Put a spoonful into your mouth, and the rich aroma will immediately fill the whole mouth! With crispy lard residue, it makes your mouth water just thinking about it ~
Recommended store: Lao Xinglong Restaurant
Business hours: Monday to Sunday, 1:3-21:3.
per capita: 96 yuan
Address: No.528, Tianjin Road (north of Guangxi intersection)
Pickled fresh
The name salty soup is a bit strange and difficult to pronounce. In fact, the word "salty" has a unique meaning. "Pickled" refers to salted bacon; "DuDu" means simmering with a small fire; "Fresh" refers to fresh meat (usually small ribs). Fresh meat and bacon with dried bamboo shoots, although simple ingredients, how can they be combined? After simmering for several hours, you can taste delicious and mellow soup without putting salt and monosodium glutamate.
recommended store: Lan Xin Restaurant
Business hours: Monday to Sunday from 11: to 14: to 17: to 22: .
per capita: 73 yuan
Address: No.13 Jinxian Road, Luwan District (near Maoming South Road)
Traditional dim sum
1. Fried buns
Fried buns originated in Shanghai in the 2th century, also known as fried steamed buns and steamed buns. They are characterized by crispy skin, thick juice, fragrant meat and delicious taste, and are deeply loved by Shanghai people. Traditional fried dumplings are golden in appearance, crispy at the bottom, tender and juicy. Be sure to eat it while it is hot, and be careful of the scalded soup ~
Recommended shop:
Cauldron Spring (fried without soup)
Dahuchun was founded in 1932, and it has a high reputation in Shanghai from the older generation to the younger generation. When you come to Dahuchun, you must eat fried, which is different from that of many soups in other places. Dahuchun's "soup-free fried" is a major feature, and its dough is also different from ordinary fried. It uses half-baked dough to make the taste thicker and softer, and it is wrapped in little oil and water and full stuffing, which makes people satisfied in one bite.
Business hours: Monday to Sunday from 6: 3 to 19:
Per capita: 23 yuan
Address: No.136, Sichuan Middle Road
friendship village
Another village is an old shop in a residential area. Its business is very good, and the surrounding Shanghai residents often patronize it. Fried dumplings and steamed buns are its characteristics, "thin skin, big stuffing and thick juice". If the soup-free fried dumplings in Dahuchun are not to your taste, try this fried dumplings (fried dumplings are only served in the morning and noon). In addition, pot stickers, big wonton, small wonton and fried pork chops are all very good. After eating, you can also go to Tongji University and Fudan University nearby. If it is April, you can catch the cherry blossoms.
Business hours: 5:-21:
Per capita: 2 yuan
Address: No.591, siping road (near Xingang Road)
2. Steamed bread
Steamed buns were born in the "Tangyuan" in the north, with thin skin and juicy taste. Generally, it is filled with crab powder and fresh meat. There is a formula for eating a small cage: "Lift it gently, move it slowly, open the window first, then have soup, and have fins
Wanshouzhai (a fly house, which is very popular with neighbors)
Business hours: 5: -21: 3 from Monday to Sunday
Per capita: 18 yuan
Address: No.123, Yin Shan Road (near Jixiang Road) It recorded the historical footprints of literary giants such as Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Guo Moruo and Ye Shengtao, and left-wing fighters such as Ding Ling and Rou Shi. How can such a cultural trip be missed!
3. Four donkey kong
"Four donkey kong"-pie, fried dough sticks, soybean milk and glutinous rice balls are the most classic breakfasts in Shanghai. Nowadays, young people also like to take it as a midnight snack, which is quite healthy compared with beer and barbecue. Needless to say, the authentic Shanghai cakes are all baked in the oven, which are divided into two kinds: salty and sweet. And sweet and salty rice balls. Sweet inside is bean paste and black sea sand. Salty ones are often served with mustard tuber and meat floss. Either way, wrap a fried dough stick at last, then roll it up and press it tightly.
Recommended shops:
As long as there is a food market, there are breakfast stalls, but if you are looking for cleanliness, you can also choose those chain stores.
Seasonal Cuisine
In addition to the above daily snacks, Shanghai also has some special cuisines in different seasons.
1.*** Youth League
In Tomb-Sweeping Day, Youth League was a traditional food in the south of the Yangtze River. It's cyan. It is mixed with the juice of wormwood to make glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped with bean paste or lotus seed paste. Not sweet or greasy. The exclusive taste of spring is solidified in a blue steamed bun.
Recommended store: Xinghualou (Head Office)
Business hours: Monday to Friday, 1:3-14:17:-21:, Saturday and Sunday, 8: 3-14: -17: -21: .
Per capita: 13 yuan
Address: 2/F, No.343 Fuzhou Road (near Shandong Middle Road)
Tips: There are many branches in Xinghualou, but the online celebrity youth league is only available in Fuzhou Road Head Office. If you want to eat, you have to be prepared to queue up.
2. Fresh meat moon cakes
Eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival is a tradition of China people, which is different from sweet moon cakes in other places. The moon cakes that Shanghainese eat are made of pork! The fresh meat stuffing in the moon cake is completely a mass of fresh meat, with crispy skin and some toughness. Delicious gravy slowly seeps in, which is very delicious. Every year near the Mid-Autumn Festival, many Shanghainese are willing to queue up for two or three hours and drive dozens of kilometers just to buy a box of fresh meat moon cakes.
Recommended store: Wangjiasha (Head Office)
Business hours: Monday to Sunday, 7:-2:3
Per capita: 41 yuan
Address: No.85, Nanjing West Road (near Shimen 1st Road)
Tips: Fresh meat moon cakes of old brands are very good. You can choose according to your own preferences.
3. saury noodles
Swordfish, puffer fish and shad are also called "the three major fresh fish in the Yangtze River", and swordfish is the earliest seasonal fish in a year. Therefore, eating a bowl of swordfish noodles with "fresh eyebrows falling off" around Qingming Festival is a major event on the agenda of gourmets. In Shanghai, Boss Village, a century-old shop, is probably the most famous for eating swordfish noodles. Strictly speaking, the noodles with swordfish in this shop are "noodles with swordfish sauce", because there is no fish in this bowl of noodles, but there are many soup cooked by swordfish. The soup of saury noodles is thick and white as milk. Although you can't eat fish, the delicious taste of "the first freshness in the Yangtze River" has already been integrated into the noodles.
recommended store: boss village
business hours: Monday to Friday 6:-14:17:-2:3 Saturday and Sunday 6:-2:3.
Per capita: 5 yuan
Address: No.6, Fuzhou Road
Tips: You can order another saury if you want to eat it, but the price is quite tricky!