Top 10 classical gourmet foods from Shanghai

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.