The second "May Five-Year Shopping Festival" is about to kick off, as the gathering place of Shanghai's time-honored food - a number of long-established restaurants in the Yuyuan business district are ready to go: Green Wave Gallery launched the "King" same cuisine, with a single dim sum starting at least 10 yuan; Nanxiang Mantou Shop launched the "cherry blossom powder" small cage steamed bun for the first time; Yuyuan, Pudong, Nanxiang and other three old Shanghai restaurants are new, more than 20 dishes of the gang "old dishes are newly made", and the "intangible cultural heritage on the tip of the tongue" is revitalized.
Green Wave Gallery, which has received more than 60 batches of important guests at home and abroad, has recently launched several new products: fat pepper crisp spring shoots, toon crisp fried silver cod, salted lemon stewed duck, cereal chestnut rong hawthorn flower... Seemingly ordinary spring ingredients, under the careful cooking of the chef, have been combined into a new "spring CP".
Toon is a unique ingredient in spring, and the most common practice is to run eggs with toon. Green Wave Gallery's "Toon Crispy Fried Silver Cod" is full of aroma with silver cod wrapped in a crispy coat and fragrant toon.
Equally refreshing is the salty lemon stewed duck. Duck soup is one of the most popular soups in Shanghai, and it can be stewed with a simple cooking method to create an unpretentious taste. The salty lemons, which are commonly found in drinks, add a hint of lemon freshness to the mellow duck soup after being added to the soup, and the umami taste in the soup also becomes special.
The dim sum in the Green Wave Gallery is no less than the highlight of the dish. The fourteen dim sum menu created when receiving Prince Sihanouk in 1973, the "Lady Set" that was carefully carved when receiving the first ladies of various countries in 2014, the "Lotus Set" customized for the dignitaries of multinational heads of state at the welcome dinner of the first CIIE in 2018, and the "King's Menu" presented when receiving King Sihamoni of Cambodia not long ago, the small dim sum is full of ingenuity.
Recently, Green Wave Gallery has launched a new dim sum "Cereal Chestnut Hawthorn Flower", a unique skin made of hawthorn, like a blooming red peach blossom, and the filling core contains homemade chestnut paste, fruit cereal and coffee powder. When eaten, it has both the sweet glutinous texture of chestnut paste, the crispness of fruit cereal, and the aroma of coffee. The price of this snack is very close to the people: 10 yuan a piece, and it is currently necessary to make an appointment by phone in advance.
Founded in 1875, the old Shanghai Hotel also introduced new products during the "May 5th Shopping Festival", and there are many "old dishes and new dishes" in the new spring menu, which are worth tasting.
For example, a "lotus sprout pop shrimp ball", retaining the oil bursting method and homemade kung pao juice, changed the river prawn to shrimp balls and lotus sprouts, the taste is slightly sour, slightly spicy, slightly sweet. A "stuffed crispy ginseng in Thai sauce", the soft taste of the ginseng becomes a crispy skin, which is stuffed with fish velvet made from catfish. Luo Yulin, head chef of the old Shanghai Hotel and the fifth generation of non-hereditary heirs, introduced: "This dish is transformed from the traditional Beijing onion braised ginseng, which is steamed and fried in two cooking methods, with a clear layered taste, and the okra powder and Thai sweet and spicy sauce can not only brighten the color of the dish, but also relieve the appetizer." In addition to the Yuyuan Garden main store on Fuyou Road, the two old Shanghai hotel branches located in Pudong Vitality City and Nanxiang Impression City have also developed many eye-catching new products, and the three stores have launched more than 20 new products in total.
This spring, Nanxiang Mantou Shop launched a new cherry blossom pink product - "Peach Cheese Small Cage Steamed Bun". This small cage is not only pink in color, but also has a very special taste, peach and cheese wrapped in small cage steamed buns, mixing and matching the full milk flavor, and there will be a drawing effect.
"Peach Cheese Small Cage Steamed Buns" was developed by the team led by You Yumin, the head chef of Nanxiang Steamed Bun Shop and the sixth generation inheritor of Nanxiang Xiaolong's production skills. The cherry blossoms of spring became their source of inspiration.
In order to concoct this unique cherry blossom pink, they tried no less than ten times. It is first made with a variety of fruits and vegetables to make a juice and mixed with flour in different proportions. However, the color is in place, but the taste is not satisfactory. Originally, the skin of Nanxiang Xiaolong steamed bun was made of "water-adjusted" dough, and if you increase the sweetness by adding sugar alone, it will destroy the tendon of the dough, and there is no tenacity to eat. In order to make the skin of the steamed bun full of color and fragrance, they had to look for a natural source of sweetness, and finally chose peach oolong tea. "After the peach oolong tea is infused into the dough, it not only looks pink and cherry blossom color, but also tastes with a faint peach flavor, which is sweet but not greasy, and it also complements the cheese meat core." You Yumin said.
Nanxiang Mantou Shop currently supplies more than ten varieties of small cage steamed buns, including peach cheese, spicy crayfish, cold melon fresh shellfish, pickled tuk tuk fresh spring shoots and other internet red flavors, not only offline dine-in hot sales, online takeaway repurchase rate is also very high.
In addition to making efforts in products, Yuyuan's long-established brand has also stepped out of The Yuyuan business circle in recent years and vigorously opened up new markets. The south store of Dexing Restaurant (formerly known as Shanghai Dexing Restaurant), a century-old brand under the Yuyuan Culture and Catering Group, has recently relocated to Fuxinghui, and the new store is scheduled to be unveiled in May, which will simultaneously launch many blockbuster special offers and new products; the new retail brand "True Taste" will also be listed for the first time during the "May 5th Shopping Festival".
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Source: Author: Tang Ye Huang Liming