What are the specialties in Shanghai?

Shanghai specialties include white rabbit toffee, Shanghai Gao Qiao muffin, Chongming cake, Chenghuangmiao spiced bean, striped cake, Shanghai pear paste candy and so on.

1. White rabbit toffee

At the beginning, the factory that made white rabbit toffee could only produce 8 kilograms a day, and it also relied on manual production. However, due to the shortage of materials at that time, the white rabbit toffee was regarded as a nutritious food with the advertisement that "seven white rabbit toffee equals a glass of milk", which accompanied the growth of a generation.

2. Shanghai Gao Qiao muffin

A delicious and famous dish belongs to Shanghai cuisine. Produced in Gao Qiao Town, China. It is made of refined white powder, cooked lard, soft sugar, red beans and osmanthus flowers. It tastes sweet and fat, and it is crisp and refreshing. It is one of the four famous cakes in Gao Qiao (muffin, muffin, crispy and crisp). Named for its crisp entrance. Also, due to the distinct layers of pastry, each layer is as thin as paper, so it is called Melaleuca Cake.

3. Chongming Cake

One of the traditional characteristic cakes in Chongming, a snack with special flavor. There are two kinds of muffins and hard cakes. Muffins are usually eaten cold; Hard cakes are usually eaten after being heated, sometimes steamed, and some wine can also be put in to make fermented cake soup.

4. City God Temple Spiced Bean

City God Temple Spiced Bean, a traditional snack in Shanghai, is produced in China City God Temple, with exquisite materials and proper cooking. The raw materials used are specially selected from broad beans produced in Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province. "If you don't taste the spiced beans in the Old Town God Temple, you won't be too big in Shanghai!" This is the unanimous comment of all Chinese and foreign tourists who come to Chenghuang Temple. The spiced bean skin in Chenghuang Temple is thin and fluffy, with even salt and frost, and it is soft and chewy. It tastes delicious and sweet in the mouth, and it has no flavor.

5. Tiaotou cake

Tiaotou cake, a specialty of Shanghai and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions, is a traditional characteristic cake and an oblong cake made of glutinous rice flour with a fine sand core. Because it is filled with bean paste, it is also called "fine sand headline cake"

6. Shanghai Pear Paste Sugar

Shanghai Old Town God Temple Pear Paste Sugar is a household name in Shanghai, which is a famous traditional local product in Shanghai. It has a long and enduring history and is deeply loved by consumers all over the country, especially those Chinese at home and abroad who have a deep old Shanghai complex. They always bring some products to enjoy this happy taste with their relatives.