Shanghai Food

Top Ten Traditional Snacks in Shanghai

1. Crab Shell Yellow Crab shell yellow is named after its round yellow shape that resembles a crab shell. Crab roe is made of flour and baking powder. It is first made into a flat round cake, covered with sesame seeds, and baked on the furnace wall. This cake is delicious, salty and sweet, with crispy skin and crispy inside. Someone wrote a poem praising it, "Before the baker smells the fragrance, the pastries in his mouth will fall off." Crab shell yellow has two fillings: salty and sweet. The salty ones include scallion oil, fresh meat, crab powder, and shrimp, and the sweet ones include sugar, roses, bean paste, and date paste. The best product for this product is 50,000 Baking at the Ahawa intersection of Shimen Road in Shanghai.

2. Spare ribs rice cake Spare ribs rice cake is an economical and unique snack in Shanghai with a history of more than 50 years. There are two famous pork rib rice cakes in Shanghai - "Xiao Changzhou" and "Lai Xiande". "Little Changzhou" pork ribs rice cake is made from pig spines from Changzhou, Wuxi and other places. After marinating in soy sauce, put it into a frying pan mixed with soy sauce, oil, sugar, chopped green onion and ginger, wine, etc. Take it out when it is purple-red and tender and fragrant. At the same time, after Songjiang rice is cooked, it is repeatedly beaten with a hammer in a stone mortar. Beat the rice until there are no whole grains and take it out. Cut each 500g of rice into 20 pieces, and wrap each piece with a small piece of pork ribs that has been cooked in the sauce pot. Sprinkle five-spice powder when eating, which combines the rich aroma of pork ribs with the soft and crispy texture of rice cakes. Very delicious. Fresh pork ribs rice cake is made by mixing flour, water chestnuts, five-spice powder, and eggs, soaking the surface of the pork ribs, and cooking it in oil. This kind of ribs is golden in color, crispy in skin and tender in meat. At the same time, add Songjiang rice, red soy sauce, pork ribs with sweet noodle sauce, and drizzle with chili sauce. It has a refreshing aroma, slightly sweet and slightly spicy, fresh and tender. The "Little Changzhou" and "Lai Xiande" snack bars of Shanghai Shuguang Hotel make the most distinctive pork ribs and rice cakes.

3. Fried chicken and steamed buns Fried chicken and steamed buns are a special snack in Shanghai. This snack uses fermented white flour as a crust, cooked chicken breast cubes, minced meat sandwiches, aspic and sesame oil as fillings. Dip the chopped green onion and sesame seeds on the tip of the wrapped steamed buns, brush the surface with vegetable oil, and fry in the oil pan. The product is plump in shape, with yellow sesame seeds and chopped green onions on top, making it soft and delicious. The lower part is crispy and delicious, the filling is thick and juicy, and the more you eat, the better it gets. This kind of dim sum is best made by Wangjiasha dim sum shop in Shanghai.

4. Bad snails Shanghai’s bad snails are a famous specialty snack. This snack is made from a large, fat and thick longan snail produced in Tunxi County, Anhui Province. After entering the store, keep it in clean water for two days to let it spit out the sediment, then put it in a pot, add fennel and cinnamon and cook for a long time. Finally, put the cooked snails on the aged fragrant distiller's grains, and the distiller's grains are ready. This kind of snail is brown-gray in color, with tender meat, juicy and mellow taste, and is very popular. This kind of food is a famous specialty snack in Shanghai Wuweizhai dim sum shop and Lai Xiande dim sum shop.

5. Xiao Shaoxing Chicken Porridge The chicken porridge sold by Xiao Shaoxing Chicken Porridge is an authentic Shanghai-style snack. This store was founded by a Shaoxing native in 1947. Because the founder and main operators are both Shaoxing people, a small Shaoxing people's world has formed here, so people named it "Little Shaoxing Chicken Porridge Shop". Shaoxing chicken porridge is a kind of rice porridge cooked with chicken soup. It is a snack made with chicken and various condiments. When eating chicken porridge, cut the cooked chicken into 3 cm long and 0.6 cm wide pieces, put them on a plate, put the chicken porridge in a bowl, add onions, minced ginger and chicken oil, and eat together. At this time, the chicken porridge is yellow and green, and the chicken is white and shiny, which is pleasing to the eye and greatly increases appetite. When you taste it, the chicken porridge is sticky, tough and delicious, tender and refreshing, rich in nutrients, and the more you eat, the more delicious it becomes. This food is operated by Xiao Shaoxing Chicken Porridge Shop in Shanghai.

6. Nanxiang Xiaolongbao, also known as Nanxiang Xiaolongbao, is a traditional snack in Nanxiang Town, a suburb of Shanghai, with a history of more than 100 years. This product is famous for its thin skin, rich fillings, heavy marinade and fresh taste. It is one of the snacks loved by customers at home and abroad. The filling of Nanxiang steamed buns is meat sauce made from leg meat, without adding onions and garlic, just a little minced ginger and aspic, salt, soy sauce, sugar and water. The buns are made from unfermented refined flour. 50 grams of flour can be used to wrap 8 pieces, and 100 grams can be used in one drawer. The steamed steamed dumplings are small and exquisite, shaped like a pagoda, translucent and firm, crystal yellow, full of soup and delicious. It tastes even better if eaten with shredded ginger, balsamic vinegar and a bowl of egg soup. The fillings of Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao can also change with the seasons. Add shrimp in early summer, and crab meat, crab roe, and crab oil in autumn. Nanxiang Steamed Buns in Yuyuan Shopping Mall are one of the famous snacks in Yuyuan Shopping Mall.

7. Kaiyang Scallion Noodles Kaiyang Scallion Noodles are a famous snack in Shanghai. Kaiyang is very particular about how to make scallion noodles. First, cut the scallions into inch slices and fry them in a warm oil pan (the scallion oil cooked in this way is dark red and yellow in color and has a strong fragrance of chopped scallions, which can increase appetite when smelling it). Then add Kaiyang scallion oil that has been fried in vegetable oil and soaked in wine and sugar, which is scallion oil. Cook the noodles, drain the soup, and mix with scallion oil to make Kaiyang scallion noodles. This kind of noodles is very popular because of its bright color, smooth texture, delicious shrimp flavor, strong green onion aroma and rich nutrition. Kaiyang Scallion Noodles are a specialty snack at Hubin Snack Shop in Shanghai and one of the famous snacks at the City God Temple.

8. Vegetarian Buns Vegetarian Buns are a specialty snack of Shanghai Feng Chun Song Yue Lou Vegetarian Restaurant. This restaurant has a history of over 70 years. This is a vegetarian restaurant that combines the flavors of Beijing, Jiangsu and Yangbang, as well as the local flavors of Shanghai. The store's assorted vegetables, fried mushrooms, Luo Han Zhai, mushroom crispy rice soup, fried crab noodles, gluten noodles and other dishes are quite famous in Shanghai, especially the vegetarian dishes made by the store are famous far and wide and very popular.

The vegetable buns are made of white flour and filled with green vegetables, gluten, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, and spiced dried tofu, and are topped with sesame oil, sugar and other condiments. After the wrapped vegetarian vegetables are steamed, the skin is white and the meat is soft, and the filling is green, bright and pleasing to the eye. When you open the cage, the house is filled with fragrance, and the food tastes delicious and refreshing. You can eat more and never get tired of it. You can try this snack at Feng Chun Song Yue Lou Vegetarian Restaurant in Shanghai Yuyuan Shopping Center.

9. Fried steamed buns Fried steamed buns are a specialty snack made by Shen Dacheng Dim Sum Restaurant, a century-old store in Shanghai. This shop's oil-soaked xiaolongbao borrows the strengths of many other restaurants: the skin is Nanxiang xiaolongbao, rolled with unfermented fine flour, and the filling is Huaiyang's premium soup dumplings. Beat the meat filling and bone broth evenly, and add onions, ginger, garlic and other seasonings. When frying, the technique of frying shortbread is used. The steamed buns made from such carefully processed red dates are small and exquisite in shape, golden in skin, bright in color, crispy in the mouth, tender in meat, overflowing with soup, fat but not greasy. After eating, my teeth and cheeks are fragrant, and my mouth is full of saliva. If eaten while hot, the aftertaste will be endless.

10. Rolling Pin Shayuan Rolling Pin Shayuan is one of the famous flavor points of Qiaojiazui Dim Sum Store in Shanghai, with a history of more than 70 years. According to legend, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was an old lady Lei in the Three Archways of Shanghai. In order to make dumplings easy to store and carry, she pioneered the method of rolling white powder on the surface of cooked dumplings. In order to commemorate her, later generations named this dumpling Lei Shayuan. Qiaojiazha Dim Sum Shop sells sand-rolling rings, which are made by boiling Dahongpao red beans from Chongming County, grinding them into sand, and drying them into purple powder. Then, the glutinous rice dumplings with fresh meat or bean paste, sesame and other fillings are cooked, drained and rolled into balls

1. Noodle crab Noodle crab is one of Shanghai's famous dishes. Use June yellow as the main ingredient, cut it in half, dip it in flour and fry it in a pot. While stir-frying, pour in the batter and stir-fry. Cooking Ingredients (for three people) Ingredients: Fresh female blue crabs (5 pieces), chopped green onion (half tablespoon), minced ginger (half tablespoon), chopped green onion (1 tablespoon), flour (1/2 cup) Seasoning: oil (1 bowl) , salt (1/3 tablespoon), Haitian seafood soy sauce (1 tablespoon), sugar (1) mince ginger and green onion and set aside. 2. Dip a layer of flour on the cut of the crab, put it on a plate and set aside; mix 1/2 cup of flour and 1 cup of water to make a batter. 3. Heat a bowl of oil, cut the crab pieces dipped in flour downwards, put them into the oil and fry for 30 seconds until the flour solidifies. 4. Then put the whole crab pieces into the oil and fry over medium heat until the crab shell turns red and the crab pieces turn golden brown. Pick up and drain the oil. 5. Heat 3 tablespoons of oil, sauté minced ginger and green onion, add fried crab pieces and stir-fry for 1 minute. Add 1 tablespoon cooking wine, 1 tablespoon Haitian seafood soy sauce, 1/4 tablespoon sugar, and 1/3 tablespoon salt and stir-fry evenly. 6. Pour in the batter and stir-fry quickly to coat the crab pieces evenly and serve. Tips: 1. Coat the cut crabs with a layer of flour to prevent the crab roe from being lost; first fry the cut crabs with flour to seal the crab roe and meat, and then fry the whole crab in oil. 2. Flower crabs are usually divided into red crabs and blue crabs. Female blue crabs have crab roe, and male blue crabs have crab paste. The sex of a flower crab can also be determined by looking at the crab's navel. The male crab at the tip of the belly button is stronger and has crab paste. Female crabs with round belly buttons will have more fragrant crab roe. 3. To choose a crab with better meat quality, first weigh it, the heavier one feels better; then press the belly of the crab, the harder one feels better. 4. The so-called "June yellow", also known as butter crab, is a young crab that has just shed its shell. The crab shell of the former has not completely hardened, and the hair on the crab legs has not yet grown out. Crab roe is more tender and the meat is softer than hairy crab.

Second, pear paste candy has been passed down for more than 1,300 years. More than 100 years ago, a jelly shop opened in Shanghai City God Temple. Because the owner is good at management, Chenghuang Temple jelly is famous at home and abroad. This candy cure is pear butterscotch and colorful pear butterscotch. Efficacy: Pear paste candy has the effects of relieving cough and asthma, producing body fluids, quenching thirst, and increasing appetite. It is made from medicinal materials such as almond, platycodon, poria, pinellia, winter flower, dandelion, tangerine and other medicinal materials, which are decoctioned and refined with white sugar. Pear butterscotch is made from Chinese herbal medicines such as amomum villosum, hawthorn, clove, bergamot, and woody incense and white sugar. It is now monopolized by the Shanghai Pear Butter Candy Store in Yuyuan Mall.

Three. Chicken and duck blood soup Chicken and duck blood soup is a traditional snack at Songsheng Dim Sum Shop in front of the Chenghuang Temple. It is characterized by clear soup and delicious blood clots, mainly due to its fine selection of ingredients and unique cooking.

4. Babao Hot Sauce Babao Hot Sauce is one of the famous Shanghai specialties. It uses eight kinds of poultry, meat, vegetables and fruits as the main raw materials and is stir-fried. It tastes spicy, hence the name "Babao Hot Sauce". Due to the variety of raw materials, the dishes are rich in color, moist and bright, spicy and spicy, with a moderate amount of salty and sweet.

5. Crispy-skinned squab. This type of squab takes about 28 days to grow from birth and weighs 8.1 catties. Carefully prepared by the chef and browned with special seasonings. The meat is fresh and tender, with a tender texture. Suitable for all ages. Crispy squab is also called one dollar pigeon. After spending a designated amount at the hotel, customers can buy this authentic Shanghai specialty for only 1 yuan. It’s typical to eat big and spend little money.

6. Plain-cut chicken "When it comes to plain-cut chicken, go to Shaoxing." This has become a mantra for many Shanghainese. Because "Little Shaoxing" uses the famous "Three Yellow Chicken" produced in Pudong, Shanghai, it is of high quality and delicious, and is favored by customers. "Little Shaoxing" has also become a famous store in Shanghai.

7. Don’t throw away sugar.

Tang Bu Shuai, also known as "Ruyiguo", is his elder brother

Shanghai City God Temple Food Street is adjacent to Yuyuan Garden, also known as the Old City God Temple. It is located on Fangbang Middle Road, bounded by Anren Street to the east, Fuyou Road to the north, and Laojiachang Road to the west.

We operate various Shanghai-style snacks: special snacks from Lubo Gallery, vegetarian dishes from Songyue Tower, pigeon egg dumplings from Osmanthus Hall, eight-treasure rice from Songyun Tower, Nanxiang Xiaolong, Ningbo dumplings, glutinous rice balls, which can be called a snack kingdom.

Picture 1: Golden Signboard

Picture 2: Refined Snacks

Picture 3: Refined Snacks

Picture 4: Delicious Side Dishes .

Picture 5: Sugar Man

Yunnan South Road Food Street is located in the city center, starting from Yan'an East Road in the north and Jinling East Road in the south. This is the most popular place for Shanghainese to eat out. Someone once joked: "You will be lucky as soon as you step onto Yunnan Road. You will drool countless times." Chang'an has Jiaozi Tower, Jinling Hotel, Sanhelou Hotel, Laozhengxing Hotel, etc. There you can taste delicious Peking duck, Xiao Jinling salted duck, Lai Xiande pork ribs rice cake, Shaoxing white-cut chicken, Nanxiang steamed buns, Tianjin Goubuli steamed buns, Shandong dumplings, old Sichuan hot pot, Xinjiang roast mutton wait.

Picture 1: The magnificent signboard

Picture 2: White-cut chicken

Picture 3: The famous Nanxiang Xiao Long Bao.

Picture 4: Spare Ribs Rice Cake

Wujiang Snack Street is located on a small road next to Shanghai TV Station (Nanjing West Road). There are Dai girl hot pot, grilled fish, Teppanyaki, honey, "Little Yang Shengjian", Chongqing roast chicken, beef cakes, special octopus balls, grilled chicken wings, cold skin, stinky tofu, meat buns and so on.

Picture 1: A corner of the food street.

Picture 2: The famous "Xiao Yang Shengjian"

Picture 3: Various snacks.

Qibao Ancient Town Food Street Qibao Ancient Town Old Street is located next to Qingnian Road, Xinjie. The food here is dazzling: all kinds of braised pork, various square cakes, stinky tofu, glutinous rice balls, white-cut mutton, Qibao rotten meat, hoofless and so on.

Picture 1: Begonia cake Begonia cake was created in the Qing Dynasty. It is named after the crabapple flower shape of the cake, and later gradually became one of Wuxi's special snacks. However, there are not many places to eat in Shanghai now, and it is considered one of Qibao’s specialties. It is made by mixing flour and baking powder into a paste with cold water, brushing a little water and oil on a special mold, injecting the batter, adding bean paste, fresh meat, vegetable lard and other fillings, and then covering the flour with the batter , add diced sugar lard, red and green melon shreds, melon seeds, etc., cover with an iron plate sprinkled with white sugar, and bake on a coal stove. Begonia cake is sweet and delicious, especially when eaten hot. Begonia cake is really my favorite Qibao snack.

Picture 2: Plum blossom cake is similar to crabapple cake. Plum blossom cake is not native to Qibao, but these two cakes are among the best in Shanghai snacks, making the older generation of Shanghainese enjoy it. Now, I'm afraid it's still hard to find them in big stores. In the past, they could be purchased from street vendors. Plum blossom cake is also a Wuxi snack. It is made by mixing high-quality flour, yeast powder and water into a paste, pouring it into a hot plum blossom mold, and adding various fillings such as bean paste, fresh meat, vegetable lard, and roses. Then pour the paste, sprinkle with white sugar, red and green melon shreds, cover the cake mold with a hot iron plate and bake. This cake is golden in color, shaped like plum blossoms, soft and delicious, and suitable for all ages.

Picture 3: Qibao Daqu arrives at the Qibao Winery filled with wine jars. Here you can see the entire brewing process of Qibao Daqu, which is another specialty of 3354. The master of the winery told me that the characteristics of this high-altitude wine are traditional hand-made brewing. The thick wine in the mouth becomes clear, sweet and has an endless aftertaste. Today's "Qibao Old Wine" is brewed in old wineries using indigenous methods and sold while brewing. The smell of wine is everywhere, and many tourists can’t help but buy some to take back.

Picture 4: Qibao Tangyuan now has 2 branches, and all the glutinous rice balls are 0.6 yuan each. There are fresh meat, bean paste, date paste, sesame and other varieties. Fresh meat is obviously the best, and the soup after biting out is fresh but not greasy; black sesame (black pastry) is also delicious, very Ningbo. The date paste is ground very finely. The filling of jujube paste is dried jujube, cored, chopped, and steamed with sugar. The flavor of jujube is still in my mouth, but I don’t like eating jujube paste. The most important thing

Many places in Guqi Town have fried stinky tofu. Each tastes slightly different, but all good. "Stinky tofu" has a long history. Although its name is tacky, its appearance is not amazing, and its ambition is not amazing, it is an ancient and traditional leisure flavor. Once you've tasted it, you'll often want to stop and taste it quickly.

Picture 6: Other snacks

When visiting Qibao Food Street, in addition to some local snacks, there are many other delicious snacks. As the saying goes, foreign monks like to chant sutras. Naturally, Nanxiang Xiaolong, Youlian Fried Food, and Fujian Shaxian are all here; but after all, these chain stores lack characteristics. Qibao has many distinctive snacks that are memorable. The most famous one is Qibao Fried Pork. Pork belly wrapped in lotus leaves is undoubtedly a temptation for carnivores like me. In addition, duck feet, beggar's chicken, snails stuffed with meat, and old duck soup are all very popular!

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Last week, I had the opportunity to hang out with my old classmates and visit the City God Temple, the Oriental Pearl Tower and the Bund. It’s so unforgettable! An old classmate also specially ordered a snack online. not bad! It is said to be French style, so I was specially asked to try this "turtle" that has lived in France for several years.

It’s really pure citychef, I recommend it to everyone——!