What does this dish mean?

This local cuisine generally refers to Shanghai cuisine, which is an important school of traditional food culture in Jiangnan area.

Benbang cuisine is another name of Shanghai cuisine and one of the main local flavor dishes in China. The so-called local gang is also local. It is characterized by thick oil red sauce, original flavor, moderate salinity, mellow and delicious. Common cooking methods mainly include simmering, stewing and sugar. Later, in order to adapt to the light and refreshing taste of Shanghainese, the dishes gradually changed from heavy oil red sauce to elegant and refreshing. The cooking method of this dish is good at using sugar and has a unique Jiangnan flavor.

Due to the long-term existence and mutual influence between Shanghai local cuisine and foreign cuisines, on the basis of the original local cuisine, it has gradually developed into a Shanghai-style cuisine with local flavor and Suzhou-Wuxi flavor as the main body. Today's Shanghai cuisine has the advantages of high quality, proper cooking, lightness and elegance, diverse tastes and wide adaptability. Its main famous dishes are boiled chicken, Songjiang perch, herring bald lung, raw fried grass carp and so on.