What are the specialties of Shanghai

Shanghai's specialties include: Gaoqiao Muffins, Chenghuangmiao Five-Spice Beans, Chongming Old Hairy Crab, Chongming Golden Melon, and Fengjing Dingtu.

1, Gaoqiao muffins

Shanghai Gaoqiao muffins is a very local characteristics of the traditional pastry. It is made of the best pine nuts, sesame seeds, glutinous rice flour and other raw materials, crisp texture, sweet and savory. Gaoqiao muffins have a long history of production, with a unique production method, the pastry skin is fragrant and crispy, the interior contains crispy pine nuts and sesame seeds, color and flavor are excellent, is the Shanghai region is highly respected as a specialty food.

2, Shing Wong Temple five spice beans

Shing Wong Temple five spice beans is a Shanghai specialty snack, has been passed down for a long time. It takes green beans as the main raw material and adopts a variety of ingredients and specific cooking methods to make sugar-crisp beans with full grains and attractive color. Five-spice beans not only taste sweet and delicious, but also have a crispy texture, and each one carries the flavor of five-spice powder and sugar, which makes it memorable. Now, the City God Temple five spice beans have become a famous specialty snack in Shanghai, and are one of the must-try delicacies for tourists coming to Shanghai.

3, Chongming Old Hairy Crab

Chongming Old Hairy Crab is a famous Shanghai specialty, which is highly praised for growing in a pollution-free environment on Chongming Island. It is made from live male hairy crabs with delicious meat, rich butter, crispy and smooth, and delicious flavor, and is a highly respected specialty in Shanghai. Chongming Old Hairy Crab is even closely linked with the Mid-Autumn Festival in the fall, becoming a traditional food for people to reunite **** for the festive season.

4, Chongming Golden Melon

Chongming Golden Melon, a kind of specialty vegetables grown on Chongming Island in Shanghai, China. The melon is large, conical in shape, pale yellow with dark yellow stripes on the outside, thin and solid skin, delicate flesh, sweet taste, very tasty. It is highly favored in the market for its origin, quality and taste, and is a popular western ingredient on Chinese tables at home and abroad, as well as one of the culinary specialties of the Shanghai area.

5, Fengjing Ding hoof

Fengjing Ding hoof and Zhenjiang "meat", Wuxi's "Wuxi meat bones," the same as the reputation, is the Shanghai region's characteristics of the traditional dishes. Shanghai Fengjing Ding choose pig's hind hoof as the main material, accompanied by Shaoxing wine, rock sugar, cinnamon, cloves and other auxiliary ingredients cooked. The selection of ingredients focuses on live, raw, inch, fresh; seasoning is good at salty, sweet, bad, sour. The finished product has the unique taste of "fragrant" when eaten cold and "glutinous" when eaten after steaming, with red color, thick marinade, fat and tender meat, which has a great reputation.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Gaoqiao Muffins