10 Delicious Must Eat in Shanghai
Tasting the local dishes is a good way to understand the local cultures. Shanghai snacks bring together the best of the world to create a variety of unique Shanghainese dishes. Shanghai is not only a small dumpling and a fried bag, ribs rice cake, scallion noodles, risotto, chicken porridge, crab shell yellow, etc., are also must eat food in Shanghai, Xiaobian lists the pocket list for everyone, and attached Recommend store information so that everyone can eat Shanghai snacks in the shortest possible time.
10.Gui Hua Lian’ou (Lotus Root with Osmanthus Blossom Syrup)
Admittedly the most sticky impractical of all street foods, Guia Hua Lian’ou are big, slow to make, hard to eat…and worthwhile.
9.Cong You Bing (Scallion Pancakes)
Locals will line up for hours in all kinds of weather to buy one of these flaky, buttery, scallion- and pork-studded fried pancakes from vendors, many of whom conduct their street food businesses from their kitchen doorways.
8.Shansi Leng Mian (Eel Noodles)
Shanghai is famous for its eel dishes, and you can’t get more Shanghainese than Shansi Leng Mian, or ‘eel thread cold noodles,’ the street food hybrid of a restaurant classic.
7. Shanghai smoked fish
We already love their clothes, but another reason we love Shanghai Tang is because of their modern interpretation of the classic Shanghai Liang Cai (cold dish) Shanghai smoked fish, offered on their weekend brunch menu at the cafe.
6.Drunken chicken
Forget enjoying a meal while a bit inebriated, some of the best foods in Shanghai have already beat you to it. Of all the drunken varieties of dishes in Shanghai, we love the cold dish of drunken chicken the most.
5.Hong Shao Rou
A dinner-time staple, the amount of Hong Shao Rou cooked each night in home kitchens and restaurants in Shanghai is surely epic.
4.Shengjianbao
It’s pan-fried dumplings, crackling-crisp on the base, and pillowy soft on top. Sheng Jian bao is dumplings (bao) born (sheng) of being shallow-fried (Jian). Born of the oil.
3.Deep-fried Fish with Pine nuts
Also known as sweet and sour mandarin fish, this dish originates in Suzhou, a short hop from Shanghai. At first just order for Shanghai-ning on holiday there, it became so popular that it was put on the menu of every fancy Chinese restaurant in Shanghai.
2.Rice Cake
Soft and chewy sliced Shanghai-style Niangao is an old-school treat that remains salvation for bachelors cooking dinner as well as a popular lunch order at local noodle joints.
1.Xiaolongbao
The dumpling, cleverly hiding its soup within its delicately pinched wrapper, has reached cult-like fanaticism in this city.
