This dish is rich in color, thick in taste, and the marinade permeates into the interior of the dish, which is particularly tasty, but it is also light, elegant, fresh and beautiful. Among our famous dishes, there are pot-cooked eel, braised circle, fingered citron belly, braised paddle, hairy crab in oil sauce, etc. Light and elegant, the first bad goods in summer and autumn, such as bad chicken, bad pig feet, bad door cavity, bad edamame, bad water bamboo, etc.; The shepherd's purse spring bamboo shoots, crystal shrimp, rock sugar turtle, hibiscus chicken slices and so on are good at being tender and light; Cut the third silk into filaments with ham, chicken breast and pork, and be good at knife work.

Shanghainese people refer to local dishes in Shanghai, and their characteristics can be summarized by thick oil red sauce (rich in oil, rich in flavor, heavy in sugar and bright in color). The commonly used cooking methods are mainly braised, simmered and sugar, with salty and sweet taste, oily but not greasy.

Ordinary and cheap raw materials such as bald lung, circle, pickled fresh, and soybean soup are the new force of this dish. Later, our local cuisine constantly absorbed the advantages of foreign dishes, some local restaurants created some after-care dishes, and a number of local chefs appeared, which greatly improved the taste of our local cuisine. Moreover, influenced by the trend of the world diet, which tends to be low in sugar, fat and sodium, the amount of oil and sugar in this dish is obviously reduced to meet the dietary taste of modern people.

In this group's cooking, the special dishes in the meat dishes are eel paste, fried river shrimp, hairy crab in oil sauce, braised eel in pot, braised circle, bergamot belly, braised fish in brown sauce, braised chestnut chicken, etc., which truly reflect the characteristics of this group's thick oil and red sauce. Shanghai vegetables have various seasonal dishes according to different seasons. Malantou, shepherd's purse, chicken's hair and Shanghai rape are all very refreshing. Shanghai vegetables give people the feeling of being very waxy (like eating glutinous rice), not as stiff as northern vegetables.