About Old Shanghai Snacks

Crab shell yellow is named for its round and yellow shape like crab shell. Crab shell yellow is a flat round cake made of crispy fried noodles and fermented flour, sprinkled with sesame seeds and baked on the wall of the oven. This kind of cake is delicious, salty and sweet, with crisp skin and crisp inside. Someone wrote a poem praising, "I didn't see the cake maker smell the fragrance first, and the pastry came down one after another." Crab shell yellow has salty and sweet fillings. Salty ones include scallion oil, fresh meat, crab powder and shrimp. Sweet ones are 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.

2, ribs rice cake

Rib rice cake is an economical and unique snack in Shanghai, which has a history of more than 50 years. There are two kinds of famous ribs rice cakes in Shanghai-"Little Changzhou" and "Rare". "Little Changzhou" ribs rice cake is made of pig spines from Changzhou and Wuxi. After pickling with soy sauce, put it into an oil pan mixed with soy sauce, oil, sugar, minced onion and ginger, wine, etc. Take it out when the color is purple, the meat is fresh and tender, and the taste is rich. At the same time, after Songjiang rice is cooked, it is put into a stone mortar and beaten repeatedly with a hammer. Beat until the rice is not whole, 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 soy sauce pot. When you eat it, sprinkle with spiced powder, which will not only have the fragrance of ribs, but also have the soft and crispy rice cake, which is very delicious. The "fresh" pork ribs rice cake is made by mixing flour, water chestnut, allspice powder and eggs, soaking them on the surface of pork ribs and blanching them with oil. This kind of ribs is golden in color, crispy in skin and tender in meat. At the same time, add sweet noodle sauce to Songjiang rice, red soy sauce and ribs, and drizzle with Chili sauce. The entrance glutinous rice is fragrant, slightly sweet and spicy, fresh and palatable. The "Little Changzhou" ribs rice cake in Shanghai Shuguang Hotel and the "Rare" ribs rice cake in the snack bar are the most distinctive.

3. Chicken fried steamed bread

Fried chicken steamed bread is a special snack in Shanghai. This snack is made of fermented white flour, cooked diced chicken breast, minced pork sandwich and sesame oil jelly. The tip of the wrapped steamed bread should also be dipped in chopped green onion and sesame seeds, coated with plain oil and fried in an oil pan. The product is full in shape, and the upper part is sesame and green chopped green onion from Huang Chengcheng, which is soft and delicious. The lower half is crispy and delicious, with heavy stuffing and more juice, which is more fragrant. This kind of dim sum is made by Shanghai Wangjiasha Dim Sum Shop.

Nanxiang steamed buns are well-known at home and abroad and have a history of one hundred years. Originally named "Nanxiang Meat Steamed Bread", later named "Nanxiang Meat Steamed Bread", later named "Guyi Yuan Xiao Dragon" and now named "Nanxiang Xiao Long". Big meat steamed bread adopts the method of "heavy stuffing and thin skin, making it big and small", and carefully selects refined white flour and rolls it into thin skin; Take lean meat as stuffing, without monosodium glutamate, cook the skin in chicken soup, mix it in after freezing, and sprinkle a small amount of finely ground sesame seeds to get its fragrance; According to different seasons, crab powder or Chun Zhu, shrimp and meat stuffing are also taken. Each steamed bread is stacked 14 or more, and 10 is made of one or two pieces of flour, which is translucent, small and exquisite.

The secret of food: pierce the skin and fill a plate with juice. Thin skin, fresh juice, tender meat and much stuffing.

Location:

Nanxiang mantou branch No.85 Yuyuan Road

Sam Sun Xiao wonton

It seems that Shanghainese know the size of wonton very well. Shanghai Sanxian wonton is also different from Wuxi Sanxian wonton. Wonton stuffing is not fresh meat, Kaiyang or mustard tuber, but pure meat. The so-called three delicacies are all in the soup, shredded eggs, shrimp skin and laver. The fresh meat is wrapped in a thin bag and tastes salty, fragrant and smooth.

The secret of delicious food: the soup is hot, the skin is as thin as yarn, and the three fresh ingredients are in place. Slip into your stomach.

Location:

No.0/409, Zhonghua Road, Dafugui

Bean curd soup noodles

Dry and wet alternate, which is the usual way of eating in Shanghai. Wet tofu noodle soup is a reserved program. Although it looks a little clear and moist, it is a perfect match with greasy snacks such as frying. And it is also a pleasure to watch its firing process: the soup in the pot is tumbling, the iron wire powder is boiled in the iron wire spoon, and the smell is overflowing.

Delicious secret: the soup is clear enough and fresh enough. Oil tofu, vermicelli, Venetian bag, plus a double file to ensure that your eyebrows are fresh.

Location:

Qiaojiazha Tibet South Road No.289

Strip cake mint cake

In the north and south, cakes are the special snacks of China people. Speaking of cakes in Shanghai, I'm afraid you can't grow your toes if you break them. However, top cakes and mint cakes, as well as jiaozi with double fillings, are widely loved by Shanghainese. Mint cake, glutinous rice flour mixed with a little mint powder, decorated with red and green silk. Sliced cake and glutinous rice flour are mixed with fine sand (not wrapped in fine sand, but kneaded together) to make long strips, which are better after frying.

The secret of delicious food: mint cake, sweet and cold, is quite unpopular in summer. The cake on it is soft and firm, with moderate sweetness.

Location:

Lvyang Village: No.77 Jiangning Road

Canglangting Huaihai Middle Road No.689

636 Nanjing East Road, Shen Dacheng

Haitang cake

Begonia cake belongs to the older generation. I'm afraid many young people have never eaten it. Its outer layer is vermicelli, and the inside is bean paste, which is baked with a special mold. Because the mold looks like begonia, it is named.

The secret of delicious food: the shape is brown, and the surface is sprinkled with caramel, which is particularly sweet.

Address:

Songyuelou vegetarian restaurant no.23 Bailing Road

Su Bao is a special snack vegetarian restaurant in Yuelou, Fengchun, Shanghai. This restaurant has a history of more than 70 years. This is a vegetarian restaurant that combines Beijing cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine and Yangbang cuisine, and also has the local flavor of Shanghai. The vegetarian dishes in this store, such as jambalaya, fried mushrooms, Luohanzhai, crispy soup of mushrooms, fried crab powder and gluten noodles, are quite famous in Shanghai, especially the vegetarian dishes made in this store are very famous and popular. Su Bao takes refined white flour as the skin, and the stuffing is chopped green vegetables, gluten, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots and spiced dried bean curd, mixed with spices such as sesame oil and sugar. After the wrapped vegetarian dishes are steamed, the skin is white and the meat is soft, and the stuffing is green, bright and pleasing to the eye. Open the cage, the house is fragrant, and the food is delicious and refreshing. Eat more, and you will never get tired of eating. This snack can be tasted at Feng Chunsong Yuelou vegetarian restaurant in Shanghai Yuyuan Shopping Center.

You Mei mantou

Fu You steamed bread is a special snack made by Shen Zao Dacheng Dim Sum Restaurant, a century-old Shanghai store. The oily steamed bread in this shop has absorbed many people's strengths: the steamed bread skin is made of Nanxiang steamed bread, rolled with unfermented fine powder, and the stuffing is Huaiyang boutique soup packets. Meat is mixed with bone soup, and seasonings made of onion, ginger and garlic are mixed. When frying, shortbread is similar to shortbread. This carefully processed steamed bread has a small and exquisite shape, golden skin, bright color, crisp entrance, fresh and tender meat, overflowing soup, fat but not greasy. After eating, my teeth and cheeks are fragrant and my mouth is full of saliva. Eat it while it's hot, and it's memorable.

Leishayuan

Shayuan is one of the famous flavor spots of Qiaojiazha Dim Sum Restaurant in Shanghai, which has a history of more than 70 years. According to legend, at the end of Qing Dynasty, an old lady named Lei lived in Sanpailou, Shanghai. In order to make jiaozi easy to store and carry, she pioneered the method of rolling white powder on the surface of cooked jiaozi. In order to commemorate her, later generations named Zongzi as a sand rolling ball. 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 dumplings filled with fresh meat, bean paste and sesame seeds are cooked, drained and rolled with a layer of bean paste powder. This kind of jiaozi has bright colors, strong fragrance, strong red bean flavor when it is hot, soft and delicious, and easy to carry, and has always been popular with tourists.