Must-Eat Shanghai Cuisine

    "I'm not afraid of nothing to eat, I'm afraid I can't finish it." It is the biggest description of Shanghai cuisine. As China's cosmopolitan city, it has the country's longest-established local restaurant, as well as western-style cuisines that are world-renowned. A variety of flavor restaurants offer countless delicious dishes. If you want it, you can eat it in Shanghai. Even if you are a food enthusiast, you can eat all the way to the top restaurants from the roadside stalls.

 

Shengjian Bao（生煎包）

    Chinese food listed on Forbes must-try foods.

    Shengjian Bao is a local traditional snack in Shanghai. Shanghai Shengjian Bao is a local dim sum with a history of over 100 years. The bottom of the skin is golden brown and the top half is sprinkled with sesame seeds and chives. Smell fragrant, bite a mouthful full of soup, quite loved by Shanghai people.

Recommended Restaurant: Da Hu Chun(大壶春）
Location: No.136 Sichuan Middle Road (Guangdong Road), Huangpu District, Shanghai
Recommended Reason: Representative of Shanghai traditional Shengjian Bao, the most popular and long-established century-old restaurant

 

Shanghai Big Wonton（上海大馄饨）

    Shanghai Wonton is a classic local dish. Wontons come in many shapes, such as ingot, round, triangle, rectangle, cylinder or semicircle. Big Wonton is fulled of lean meat, vegetables, and the wonton skin is tender and elastic. When you come to Shanghai, be sure to try the old Shanghai Big Wonton, which is delicious at any roadside restaurant.

Recommended Restaurant: Erguang wonton（耳光馄饨）
Location: b1, Nanyang 1931 Building, No. 165 Yude Road, Xujiahui Street, Xuhui District, Shanghai
Recommended Reason: Shanghai famous restaurants, Chinese stars: Hu Ge, Nicholas Tse, Han Hong, Huang Xiaoming, Luhan have all visited this restaurant.

 

Nanxiang Xiaolong bao（南翔小笼包）

    "Nanxiang Xiaolong" is a famous specialty snack in Shanghai, with Tangdu as its main feature. Known for its “small size, thin skin, large filling, fresh meat, delicious flavor, soup filling, and delicious flavor”, there are many varieties of Nanxiang xiaolong, such as fresh meat xiaolong, wild vegetable xiaolong, and mushroom xiaolong, etc., but the most famous is crab meat xiaolong. In the shop, there are a bunch of master crab removers. Almost two to three hundred kilograms of hairy crabs are removed every day. Watching the master crab removers has become one of the tourists' viewing items.

Recommended Restaurant：Nanxiang steamed bun Store (Yuyuan Road)
Location：No.85 Yuyuan Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai (near Yulongfang, Chenghuang Temple)
Recommended Reason: The most famous soup bao store in Shanghai