So the first
station I choose Shanghai, I want to talk about my hometown, one of the most
international and modern city in the world.Shanghai is
a place contains a blend of various special snacks; its taste is different from
the pure sweetness from Guangdong and Hong Kong, but also different from the
spicy flavor of Sichuan, Chongqing. It is well known as the light and delicious
taste.
Rib rice cake
Shanghai rib rice cake is an affordable, unique flavor snacks which has over 50 years of history. The ribe rice cake called "little Changzhou" in the “Down Restaurant”, another one in the confectionery store “Xian de lai” are the most characteristic.
Tiao tou gao/Pepper mint patty
From the North to the South, Chinese are good at making pastry dessert. It is unable to count the number of dessert from shanghai. But what was widely loved by people in shanghai, the number one is the “Tiao tou gao” and pepper mint patty no doubt, as well as double-stuffed rice cake. The most recommended and famous confectionery store is "Chen da cheng."
Yellow shell crab
Shanghai snack - yellow shell crab which uses oil-mixed dough for billet for making flat round tortillas with surface adhesion layer of sesame seeds. Attached wall oven bake cooked, shaped round, the colour like crab. The stuffings include shallot oil, meat, sugar, bean paste and so on. The bakery “Wu yuan” at the corner of Wei hai Road and No.1 Shi men road is one of the most famous shop who supplies Yellow shell crab.
Fried bread
Fried bread
can be recognized as a native Shanghai snacks which is said to have been a
century of history. Shanghai's restaurant which is famous for the fried bread
should be "Xiao Yang Sheng Jian ' with a large thin soup and crisp bottom,
unable to stop eating after having a try.
Nan xiang dumpling
Nanxiang dumpling is wekk-known for 100-year history. At the beginning, it is called "Nanxiang big meat bread", later known as "Nanxiang big bread", and then called "the ancient Yi Park dumplings", now called "Nanxiang." The Nan xiang dumpling in Yuan Garden is very delicious, but must queue for quite a long time. They are popular all the time.
Sam Sun
small ravioli
Shanghai
people seem particularly clear about the size of ravioli. Shanghai is also
different from Wuxi Sam Sun Sam Sun wonton ravioli. No stuffing of meat, dried
shrimp meat, preserved Szechuan pickle but pure meat. The so-called Sam Sun means
in the soup with eggs, shrimp, seaweed. This Sam Sun recall of meat wrapped in thin, smooth
taste salty. Big Sam Sun ravioli in Wan shou zhai will not let you down, Sam
Sun is definitely the best big Shanghai wonton.
Meat
dumplings
Fried
dumpling is famous as snack. It is worth mentioning the fried dumpling in “Bao
Wang” which is different from the general market. The characteristics of their
meat dumpling is the large appearance, waxy skin tender, the delicious soup and
crispy bottom.
Dried shrimp meat oil noodles
Dried
shrimp meat oil noodles are the very famous Shanghai snack. The status is like
wonton noodles in Guangzhou, but nowadays it is quite difficult to find the authentic
one in Shanghai, only during midnight can be found in some streets. Currently
in Shanghai City God Temple and Lakeside confectionery store you can taste this
delicious.
Begonia cake
Begonia
cake should have the longest generation among deserts, I'm afraid that there
are a lot of young people who have never eaten. Its outer layer is vermicelli,
which is red bean paste, baked in a special mold. Because mold shaped like
Begonia flower, so named. Qibao Old Street Begonia cakes are good and cheap,
the ones panned just now are the best to eat.
Grind sand round
Grind sand
circle is one of the most famous snacks in Shanghai Qiao jia shan confectionery
store, and has 70 years of history. According to legend, in the Qing Dynasty,
Shanghai three arches has an old lady with a surname Lei made her life with selling
dumplings.To do more business, she tried to make up for the problem about
inconvenience store and carry defects. At first, she rolled to the surface
layer of glutinous rice dumpling powder, all kinds of powder after the trial,
the results of the use of red bean powder effect is very good, greatly popular.
To commemorate her, people put this dumpling named grind sand round.
