What are the characteristics of Shanghai cuisine?

Shanghai cuisine, also called local cuisine, refers to Shanghai-style dishes. Shanghai cuisine is characterized by thick oil and red sauce, which is not in line with the taste of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Generally speaking, it will be a little sweeter.

So what are the specialties in Shanghai?

First, drunk crab. This is a traditional local dish in Shanghai, and it is also a distinctive dish in this local cuisine. It mainly uses onion ginger, pepper and sugar to boil water, and after cooling, it is mixed with yellow wine and white wine to make marinade, and then crabs are added. The crabs made in this way are tender in meat, sweet in taste, rich in wine and very delicious.

Second, babao duck.

This dish was originally a Suzhou dish, but it was later copied by Shanghai Chenghuang Temple. The improved Babao duck skin is more crisp and tender, and the taste is rich.

Third, crystal shrimp

This dish evolved from Cantonese cuisine and has undergone reform and innovation. The ingredients of stir-fried shrimp are very simple, that is, shrimp and eggs, but the fried shrimp is bright and translucent, soft and crisp, and delicious.

Fourth, boiled chicken.

The most famous is the Sanhuang Chicken in Shaoxing. The cooked chicken skin is yellow and white, fat, tender and delicious, and will not have the rough taste of ordinary chicken. Originally spread from Guangdong, with shrimp soy sauce, it tastes very delicious.

Five, braised hooves

Braised pig's trotters and pigskin are shiny and shiny, and they are hard dishes on the top of a table. They melt in the mouth and are not greasy.

6. Braised mandarin fish,

Catfish is a kind of fish in the Yangtze River estuary. Braised catfish is crisp, tender and soft, and very tasty in thick oil-red sauce.

Seven, fried shrimp

Stir-fried shrimps are cooked in an oil pan with high fire, and medium and small shrimps are added. After the shrimp is out of the pot, it is crisp outside and tender inside. At the same time, add some sugar, which looks sweet and sour and very tasty.

Eight, eight treasures hot sauce

Babao Chili sauce is bright in color and is improved from fried Chili sauce. Rich ingredients, showing a spicy and sweet taste, very popular.

Nine, grass head circle

That is to say, the braised pork intestines are placed on the fried grass head, and the two flavors are properly matched, which relieves the roundness and increases the layering of the grass head.