It's time to put on winter fat again

Shanghai people who have eaten all kinds of food from all over the world

Instead, they are fond of the thick oil and red sauce of the local dishes

Hot homemade dishes

And then eat a bowl of rice, which is both warming to the stomach and to the heart!

The following 10 local dishes

for the old Shanghainese

can't get tired of eating them for the rest of their lives

because it's the taste of home

1

Braised Pork

Some people say the unifying trait of Shanghainese people's braised pork is that they have a soy sauce bottle in one hand, and a candy cane in the other. ". The braised pork in thick oil and red sauce with a hint of sweetness simply brings out the best in the local cuisine. A bowl of braised pork, oily color, fat but not greasy, sweet and soft, melt in your mouth.

2

Babao Duck

Autumn and winter are the fattest seasons for ducks, and they are a must-have dish on the tables of Ala Shanghainese. "Eight treasures" is the former ancient people in order to get a good luck saying, but the real treasure inside can be more than 8 kinds! Diced chicken, diced ham, diced gizzard, diced asparagus, diced shiitake mushrooms, glutinous rice ...... slow simmered duck meat crispy and soft, every mouthful of stuffing and duck meat to eat are very satisfied.

3

Hairy Crab Rice Cake

Now is a good time to eat crab, a mention of hairy crab rice cake, greedy spit water da da da. Small hairy crab everything for two, drag the top drag, and rice cake slices together with thick oil sauce stir-fried, with Shanghai people love to the bone sweet. Shanghai people in foreign countries, a plate of hairy crab rice cake can fill the homesick stomach.

4

Prawns

Fresh prawns after cooking and deep-frying, the color is bright and attractive, the skin is crispy, but the shrimp meat is tender and refreshing, a mouthful of a very addictive, eat a plate of rhythm.

5

Loud oil eel

Why is it called loud oil? Because after the eel is served, the oil on the plate is still crackling. The fat, thick eel, wrapped in thick oil and red sauce, eaten simply can not stop. For Shanghainese, if it's on the menu, you'll definitely order it. Many people have fallen in love with the city of Shanghai because of this dish.

6

Buttoned Three Shredded Pork

The process of making Buttoned Three Shredded Pork was featured in the documentary film "Tongue Tip of China" Season 2, "Passing of the Heart," which made Buttoned Three Shredded Pork famous. Chicken breast, asparagus and ham are cut into toothpick-thick shreds to symbolize the "Golden Mountain and Silver Mountain", and then steamed with chicken broth. One bite of this dish will make your eyebrows fall off.

7

White Chicken

Without chicken, white chicken is the most popular cold dish at the Shanghai New Year's Eve dinner. The chicken is made from grass chickens from Sanlin Tang in Pudong, and the color of the chicken is golden, the skin is tight and the meat is tender, the oil is even and the taste is fresh. It is served with a dish of carefully boiled shrimp soy sauce, which you can eat for a long time.

8

Pickled dukkha

Pickled dukkha is one of the representative dishes in the local cuisine, using cured meat, fresh meat and bamboo shoots stewed together. Stewed over a long period of time on a low flame, the original flavor of the ingredients is fully released, and the flavor of preserved meat, fresh meat and bamboo shoots are blended together, making it worthy of being the "King of Soup".

9

Beauty bowl

"Beauty bowl" is an antique dish with a history of more than 200 years. For some old Shanghainese, it is almost the embodiment of Shanghai flavor. It's a simple but superbly flavored dish of scraps that normally wouldn't make it to the hall of fame!

10

Braised Paddle Water

Most Shanghainese love braised paddle water, "paddle water", which is the tail of a mackerel. Simple soy sauce, sugar, wine, the flavor of cooking. Now big fish and meat is no longer rare, the most precious, precisely the time and thought spent in each dish.