Crab shell yellow is named after its round and yellow shape like crab shell. Crab shell yellow is made of crispy fried dough and fermented flour, which is made into flat round cakes, covered with sesame seeds and baked on the wall of the oven. This cake tastes delicious, salty and sweet, and the skin is crisp and crispy. Someone wrote a poem praising it, "I didn't see the cake maker smell the fragrance first, and the pastry came down one after another." Crab shell yellow has two kinds of stuffing: salty and sweet. Salty ones are onion oil, fresh meat, crab powder, shrimp, etc., and sweet ones are white sugar, rose, red bean paste, jujube paste and other varieties. This product is the best made by Wuwan Bakery at the intersection of ahava Road, Shimen No.1 Road, Shanghai.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Little Shaoxing Chicken Porridge
The chicken porridge operated by Shaoxing Chicken Porridge Shop is an authentic Shanghai-style snack. The store was founded by a Shaoxing native in 1947. As the founder and main operator are both from Shaoxing, a small Shaoxing people's world was formed here, so people named it "Little Shaoxing Chicken Porridge Store". Shaoxing chicken porridge is a kind of snack cooked with chicken soup juice, accompanied by chicken and various seasonings. When eating chicken porridge, cut the cooked chicken into pieces 3 cm long and 0.6 cm wide, put it on a plate, put the chicken porridge into a bowl, add onion, Jiang Mo and chicken oil, and serve together. At this time, the chicken porridge is yellow with green, and the chicken is white and bright, which is pleasing to the eye and greatly increases the appetite. When tasting, the chicken porridge is sticky and smooth, fresh and delicious, and the chicken is tender and refreshing, rich in nutrition, and the more you eat, the more fragrant it becomes. This delicious food is operated in Shanghai Xiaoshaoxing Chicken Porridge Store.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Chicken Fried Steamed Bread
Chicken fried steamed bread is a special snack in Shanghai. This snack is made of fermented white flour as the skin, cooked diced chicken breast, minced pork sandwich and jelly with sesame oil as the stuffing. The tip of the wrapped steamed bread should also be dipped in chopped green onion and sesame seeds, and the surface layer should be brushed with plain oil and fried in an oil pan. The product is full in shape, with sesame seeds from Huang Chengcheng and green chopped green onion in the upper part, which is soft and palatable. The lower half is crispy and delicious, with heavy stuffing and more juice, which makes it more fragrant. This snack is made by Shanghai Wangjiasha Dim Sum Shop.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Bad Snacks
Shanghai's bad snail is a famous characteristic snack. This kind of snack is made from a big, fat, fleshy longan snail produced in Tunxi, Anhui Province. After entering the store, it is raised with clear water for two days to make it spit out the sediment, and then it is put into a pot, and fennel and cinnamon are added to cook for a long time. Finally, the cooked snail is put on the aged fragrant grains, and the grains are made. This kind of bad snail is brown-gray, fresh and tender in meat, mellow in juice and delicious in mouth, which is very popular. This food is a famous specialty snack in Shanghai Wuweizhai Dim Sum Restaurant and Xiandelai Dim Sum Restaurant.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Rib Rice Cake
Rib rice cake is an economical and unique snack in Shanghai, with a history of more than 50 years. There are two famous ribs rice cakes in Shanghai-"Little Changzhou" and "Rarely Obtained". "Little Changzhou" pork ribs rice cake is made of pork spine from Changzhou and Wuxi. After pickling with soy sauce, it is put into an oil pan mixed with soy sauce, oil, sugar, minced onion and ginger, wine, etc., and taken out when the color is purple, the meat is fresh and tender, and the taste is strong. At the same time, after Songjiang rice is cooked, put it in a stone mortar and beat it repeatedly with a hammer. After being beaten until the rice has no whole grain, take it out, cut 20 pieces every 500 grams, wrap a small piece of blanched pork ribs in each piece, and then cook it in a sauce oil pan. When eating, sprinkle with spiced powder, which will have both the fragrance of pork ribs and the soft glutinous crisp of rice cakes, which is very delicious. The "fresh-obtained" pork ribs rice cake is made by mixing flour, water caltrop, spiced powder and eggs, soaking them on the surface of pork ribs and blanching them in oil. This kind of ribs is golden in color, crisp in surface and tender in meat. At the same time, add sweet noodle sauce to Songjiang rice, red soy sauce and ribs, and pour Chili sauce on it. The entrance glutinous rice is fragrant, slightly sweet and spicy, fresh and palatable. Shanghai Shuguang Restaurant's "Little Changzhou" ribs rice cake and "Rare" snack shop's ribs rice cake are the most distinctive.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai Six: Nanxiang Steamed Bread
Nanxiang steamed bread, also called Nanxiang steamed buns, is a traditional snack in nanxiang town, a suburb of Shanghai, with a history of 100 years. This product is famous for its thin skin, rich stuffing, heavy brine and delicious taste, and it is one of the flavor snacks welcomed by customers at home and abroad. The stuffing of Nanxiang steamed bread is made of sandwich leg meat, without adding onion and garlic, and only sprinkled with a little Jiang Mo, frozen skin, salt, soy sauce, sugar and water. The skin of steamed bread is made of unfermented refined flour, and 50 grams of flour can wrap 8 pieces, 100 grams of a steamer. Steamed steamed buns are small and exquisite, shaped like pagodas, translucent and strong, crystal clear and yellow, with a mouthful of soup, full of saliva and delicious taste. If you eat it with shredded ginger, balsamic vinegar and a bowl of shredded egg soup, it will taste better. The stuffing of Nanxiang steamed buns can also change with the seasons. Add shrimp in early summer and crab meat, crab roe and crab oil in autumn. Nanxiang steamed bread in Yuyuan Shopping Mall is one of the famous snacks in Yuyuan Shopping Mall.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai Seven: Noodles with Scallion Oil in kai yang
Kai yang scallion noodles are a famous snack in Shanghai. Kai yang is very particular about the method of making scallion oil noodles. First, it cuts scallion into inches and fries it in a warm oil pan (the scallion oil cooked in this way is dark red with yellow color and strong scallion fragrance, which can increase appetite). Then add onion oil to kai yang which has been fried with vegetable oil and soaked with wine and sugar to make onion oil. Cook the noodles, drain the soup, and mix with onion oil, which is kai yang onion oil noodles. This kind of noodles is bright in color, smooth and refreshing to eat, delicious in shrimp and fragrant in onion, rich in nutrition and very popular. Kai yang scallion noodle is a special snack in Shanghai Hubin Dim Sum Restaurant, and it is also one of the famous snacks in Chenghuang Temple.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai Eight: Vegetarian Bags
Vegetarian bag is a special snack in Shanghai Chunfeng Songyuelou Vegetarian Restaurant. This restaurant has a history of more than 70 years. It is a vegetarian restaurant that combines the flavors of Beijing, Jiangsu and Yangbang, and also has the local flavor of Shanghai. The vegetarian dishes in this store, such as assorted vegetables, fried mushrooms, Luohanzhai, crispy soup with mushrooms, fried crab powder, gluten noodles, etc., are quite famous in Shanghai, especially the vegetarian dishes made in this store are well-known and very popular. Vegetarian bag is made of refined white flour as the skin, and the stuffing is made of chopped green vegetables, gluten, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots and spiced dried tofu, and mixed with spices such as sesame oil and sugar. After the wrapped vegetarian dishes are steamed in a cage, the skin is white and soft, the stuffing is green and green, bright and pleasing to the eye. When the cage is opened, the room is full of fragrance, and the food is delicious and refreshing. If you eat more, you will never get tired of it. This snack can be tasted in the vegetarian restaurant of Chunfeng Songyuelou in Shanghai Yuyuan Shopping Mall.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai Nine: Youmian Steamed Bread
Youfu Steamed Bread is a special snack made by ZaoShen Dacheng Dim Sum Shop, a century-old shop in Shanghai. The oily steamed bread in this shop draws on the strengths of many people: the steamed bread skin is made from Nanxiang steamed bread, rolled with unfermented fine powder, and the stuffing is made from Huaiyang fine soup packets. The meat stuffing is mixed with bone soup and mixed with seasonings made of onion, ginger and garlic. When frying, the technique of frying shortbread is similar to that of frying shortbread. The steamed bread made by such careful processing is small and exquisite in shape, golden in skin, beautiful in color, crisp in mouth, fresh and tender in meat, overflowing with soup, and fat but not greasy. After eating, the teeth and cheeks are fragrant, and the mouth is full of saliva. If it is eaten hot, it will have an endless aftertaste.
Top Ten Flavor Snacks in Old Shanghai: Beating Shayuan
Shayuan is one of the famous flavor spots of Qiaojiazha Dim Sum Shop in Shanghai, which has a history of more than 70 years. According to legend, at the end of Qing Dynasty, there was an old lady named Lei in Sanpailou, Shanghai. In order to make the dumplings easy to store and carry, she pioneered the method of rolling white powder on the surface of cooked dumplings. Later generations named the dumplings as rolling sand balls in memory of her. The sand-grinding balls operated by Qiaojiazha Dim Sum Shop are made by cooking red beans in Dahongpao, Chongming County, grinding them into sand, and drying them into purple powder. Then, the glutinous rice dumplings with fresh meat, bean paste, sesame seeds and other fillings are cooked, drained and rolled with a layer of bean paste powder. This kind of dumpling is colorful and fragrant, has a strong red bean flavor when eaten hot, and is soft, waxy and refreshing, and easy to carry, which has always been popular with tourists.
Appendix:
Shanghai's famous local foods: sweet-scented osmanthus sugar lotus root, pigeon egg dumplings, golden melons, melons wrapped in sauce, pigeon lobster slices, Songjiang four-gill perch, Shao Wansheng's southern flavor food, Shaoxing boiled chicken, dried duck gizzard in Daoxiang Village, Fengjing Dingti, Beijing Rufu, dried bean curd, peaches, Ting Lin Xue melons, Chenghuangmiao spiced beans, and Shanghai pear paste.