Snacks in Shanghai

Refreshments and snacks from all over China and the world are available in Shanghai. The following are some typical Shanghai snacks for your reference:

Crab-brown flaky pastry
The flaky pastry is crispy, delicious, aromatic and as brown as the color of a cooked crab. the fillings include green onions, pork, crab meat, shrimp, sugar, mashed beans, jujube paste.

Mashed date flaky pastry
It is a kind of fried food cooked with pastry cover and black mashed dates inside. it is very popular among the tourists from hong kong, macao and japan for its golden color, cute figure, crispy pastry and delicious stuffing.

Fried mantou (a kind of fried paste with stuffing inside)
In shanghai, people usually call baozi (bread) to be mantou, so fried mantou , in fact, is fried baozi. The semi-fermented paste is fried on the saucepan with spraying water several times during cooking. You'd better taste it in hot because at that time, the bottom is golden-colored and crispy, while the rest part is white and soft. The wonderful stuffing mixing fresh meat with sesame or scallion is especially wonderful.

Cold noodle with sauce
For the summer in shanghai, cold noodle is usually one of the most popular foods. the making procedure is: boil the noodle after steaming, then make it cool, at last add some sauces.
8.2.5 yangchun noodle (plain noodle)

There is a custom for the local people that the October in lunar calendar is another spring; hence the number of ten refers to spring. in the old days, the noodle was just worth ten wen (the money unit in ancient times), that's why the noodle was called Yangchuan noodle-'chun" means spring in Chinese.

Yangchuan noodle is smooth and tasty, mixed the fresh and delicious dried shrimps with scented scallion oil. it is said that in 1945, a businessman with the surname chen stirred the noodle with special scallion oil which was made in the typical way of his hometown. it was so unique that it is popular until now.

Flour ball with fruits stuffing
It is a kind of sticky rice ball with fruits stuffing which is cooked by sweet fermented-rice. it is very special and delicious.

Leisha dumpling
It is the glutinous-rice dumpling covering ground adzuki bean. it is said that at the end of qing dynasty, an old lady called lei made a living by the glutinous-rice dumpling stall in shanghai. in order to make the dumpling convenient to store and carry for attracting more customers, she tried so many ways. and finally she found covering ground adzuki bean is an effective way.

Sponge cake made by lard and fruits
It is steamed by the mixed powder of glutinous-rice and rice with adzuki bean and fruits. the cake is so soft and sweet, and has various tastes with different fruits. thus it is the popular food for welcoming the new year.

Fried chop rice cake
The chop, with a piece of rice cake, is fried and cooked. there are two makings in shanghai for this snack; the representatives are shuguang restaurant and xian laide cake store which have been famous for their chop rice cakes since 1930s; although the making procedures are different.

Fresh meat flour dough
The typical flour dough has the ingredients of diced chicken and meat, mixing with the delicious soup. Because of the ear-like figure, it got the name 'mao'er" meaning the ears of cat. But here i'd like to recommend an unique one in qiao jiashan restaurant of shanghai. the special things are the hand-made flour piece and the meat or bean paste stuffing.

Escargots pickled with distillers' grains or in wine
The median size escargots are boiled with the distillers' grains or in wine. the escargot is fresh, the seasoning is appetizing. once you have a taste, you will never forget it.

Gaoqiao cake
The ingredients used for this shortcake are wheat flour, lard, sugar, red beans and osmanthus. it is a rich and easily crumbled pastry, and has become one of the four renowned pastries from the gaoqiao bakery. all the products from this bakery can be bought at its retail department at the corner of huaihai zhong road and ruijin road.

Solidified pear syrup of town god's temple
The history of solidified pear syrup can date back to 1300 years ago. there were stores sailing solidified pear syrup in shanghai's town god's temple more than 100 years ago. and the fame of it was spread all over the world from then on.

The solidified pear syrup can be divided into one for healing effect and one for taste. the first one can relieve cough and asthma, as well as stimulate the appetite by so many medicinal herbs, such as almond, the root of balloon flower, tuckahoe, tuber pinellas etc. while the one for taste is boiled with sugar plus herbs, for example amomum villosum, hawthorn, clove and so on.

Tips: now it is the monopoly of shanghai solidified pear syrup shop in yuyuan garden commerce city.

Cream spiced beans
Cream spiced beans are made by the local green broad beans with the ingredients such as fennel, cinnamon bark, salt, sugar, cream etc. it tastes slight sweet and delicate flavor, which is good for stimulating the appetite.

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