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What are the specialties of Shanghai?

①Shengjian Steamed Buns

Shanghai's pan-fried buns can be said to be a native Shanghai snack, and are said to have a history of hundreds of years. It is characterized by crispy skin, thick juice and fragrant meat. When you take a bite, the flavor of meat, oil, green onion, and sesame seeds all come together in your mouth for a long time and refuse to dissipate.

②Nanxiang Xiaolong

When it comes to Shanghai Xiaolong, Nanxiang Xiaolongbao is naturally the most famous, as the traditional specialty of Nanxiang Town, a suburb of Shanghai, is renowned. They are called "xiaolongbao" because of their small shape and thin, translucent skin, and are steamed in a special bamboo cage.

3 Shanghai duck

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are accustomed to eating duck sauce, Shanghai duck sauce, more embodied in the characteristics of the thick oil sauce red, tender duck meat, salty and sweet moderate, strong flavor mellow, red color.

④Fresh meat moon cake

Fresh meat moon cake skin is very crispy, the meat inside is fresh and full of flavor, a bite can still taste the fresh soup, the flavor overall is very light, so eat far less greasy than the cloud leg moon cake.

5 Four Happiness Roasted Bran

Four Happiness Roasted Bran is a classic Shanghainese dish with four ingredients: mushrooms, cauliflower, black fungus, and peanuts, which is a must-have New Year's Eve dish because of its joyful name.

6 Pigeon Egg Roundup

Pigeon Egg Roundup is one of the recipes of Shanghai cuisine, with pigeon eggs as the main ingredient, pigeon egg roundup cooking skills to boiled vegetables based on the taste of sweetness.

7 Oil Dunzi

Oil Dunzi is a street food in Shanghai. But now it is very rare, you can go to some of the old towns in Shanghai to find, will be diluted batter poured into the oval iron spoon, add some green onions and radish, and then covered with a layer of batter, and finally put into the frying pan fried, out of the oil dunzi yellow, very attractive, just looking at it makes people gulp.

8 crab shell yellow

Crab shell yellow because of its round shape and color yellow like crab shell and named. Crab shell yellow is made of shortening and fermented flour for the billet, first made into a flat round cake, outside a layer of sesame seeds, pasted on the oven wall baking and become. This cake is savory, salty and sweet, and the skin is crispy.

9 Ring sand round

Ring sand round is one of the traditional Han Chinese snacks of Shanghai Qiaojiajie Dim Sum Shop, which has a history of more than 70 years. It is made by rolling a layer of dried bean paste powder on top of boiled soup dumplings.

⑩Pork Ribs Rice Cake

Pork Ribs Rice Cake, an affordable and unique snack in Shanghai, has a history of more than 50 years.