What Shanghai People Eat for Breakfast

Shanghai people usually eat big cakes, doughnuts, sticky rice cake, millet and chikki for breakfast. Big Biscuits: Big biscuits are the first of the four main ingredients of Shanghai's breakfast. The dough for these cakes is not made with baking powder, but rather is made with old fermented flour and left to rise for about ten hours before it is kneaded. Doughnuts: Authentic Shanghai doughnuts are made with a small amount of baking soda instead of alum. They are a popular choice for breakfast in Shanghai. Common millet cake: Common millet cake is a traditional snack popular in the south of the Yangtze River and is a deep-fried pastry, also known as blanch sticky millet cake.

Shanghai people usually eat big pancakes, fried dough sticks, common rice, sticky millet and chikki for breakfast.

1. Big Cake: Big cake is the first of the four big boys of Shanghai breakfast. The dough for these cakes is not baked, but rather it is covered with old fermented flour for about ten hours before being kneaded.

2, doughnuts: authentic Shanghai doughnuts do not add alum, but add a small amount of baking soda. The doughnuts are a great addition to Shanghai's breakfast menu.

3. Common millet cake: Common millet cake is a traditional snack popular in the south of the Yangtze River and is a deep-fried pastry, also known as blanch sticky millet cake, or fried patty cake in other parts of the south.

4. Common rice: Common rice is also known as mochi (粢), or steamed rice in some cities in the Anhui region. Common millet is one of the most popular traditional snacks in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

5. Chickpea: Chickpea is a traditional local noodle dish with a long history in Shanghai and Suzhou. Some people write "Qiang Cake", this "Qiang" is actually a "choke" word misspelled, and Qiang, Hui people do not have a connection with the pasta.