At the invitation of a fan friend, today I will write about the traditional snacks in Shanghai. Snacks are generally concentrated in old alleys, inconspicuous places, but the taste is really good! Now that the weather is getting warmer, going out and walking tired, finding a place to rest and eating some enduring traditional delicacies is also a great pleasure in life.
01 Nanxiang small dumplings
Nanxiang Xiaolongbao is a traditional snack in Nanxiang Town, a suburb of Shanghai, with a history of more than 100 years. Known for its thin skin, filling, heavy brine and fresh taste, this product is one of the flavor snacks that are popular with customers at home and abroad.
Nanxiang small dumpling is small and exquisite, shaped like a pagoda, translucent, crystal yellow, a bite of a packet of soup, full of raw jin, delicious taste. If eaten with shredded ginger, balsamic vinegar and a bowl of shredded egg soup, it tastes better. The filling of Nanxiang Xiaolongbao can also change with the seasons. Add shrimp in early summer and crab meat, crab yellow and crab oil in autumn.
There are two that are particularly well-known: one is the Nanxiang Mantou Shop in Yuyuan Mall, and the other is the Guyiyuan Dim Sum Shop at the intersection of Yan'an Road on Xizang Road.
02 Open onion oil noodles
Onion oil noodles are a famous snack in Shanghai. This noodle view is brightly colored, the food is lubricated and refreshing, the shrimp flavor is fragrant, the green onion is fragrant, and the nutrition is rich, which is very popular. Kai onion oil noodles is a special snack of Shanghai Hubin Dim Sum Shop and one of the famous snacks of the City God Temple.
03 Rib Rice Cake
Rib rice cake is an affordable and unique snack in Shanghai, which has a history of more than 50 years. There are two famous pork rib rice cakes in Shanghai - "Little Changzhou" and "Fresh Come". The "Little Changzhou" rib rice cake of Shuguang Restaurant in Shanghai and the rib rice cake made by the "Fresh Come" dim sum shop are the most distinctive.
04 Small Shaoxing chicken porridge
The chicken porridge operated by Xiao Shaoxing Chicken Porridge Shop is an authentic Shanghainese snack. The store was founded in 1947 by a Shaoxing person, because the founder and the main operator are Shaoxing people, here has formed a small Shaoxing people's world, so people named it "Little Shaoxing Chicken Porridge Shop". Xiao Shaoxing chicken porridge is a kind of snack made of stalk rice porridge cooked with chicken soup original juice, accompanied by chicken and various ingredients.
05 Bad field snail
Shanghai's snails are famous for their specialty snacks. This snack is made of longan snails from Tunxi, Anhui Province, which is a large fat and thick meat head, and after entering the store, it is first raised with water for two days to make it spit out the sediment, and then put it into the pot, adding fennel, cinnamon and so on to cook for a long time. Finally, the burned field snails are put on the aged incense and made badly. This snail is brownish gray, the meat is tender, the juice is mellow, and the entrance is delicious, which is very popular. This delicacy is a famous specialty snack of Shanghai Wuwei Zhai Dim Sum Shop and Fresh Dim Sum Shop.
06 Crab shell yellow
Crab shell yellow is named because its round yellow color resembles a crab shell. Crab shell yellow is made of puff pastry and yeast noodles, first made into flat round cakes, dipped in a layer of sesame seeds, and baked on the wall of the oven. This cake is delicious, salty, sweet and delicious, and the skin is crispy and crispy. Someone wrote a poem praising it as "smelling the incense before seeing the baker, and the puff pastry in the mouth is falling". The filling of crab shell yellow is salty and sweet. Salty ones include shallot oil, fresh meat, crab powder, shrimp, etc., and sweet varieties such as sugar, roses, bean paste, and date paste. The product is best made by Wu Wan's bakery at the intersection of Shimen 1st Road and Weihaiwei Road in Shanghai.
07 Chicken raw fried steamed buns
Chicken raw fried steamed bun is a special flavor snack in Shanghai. This snack is made with fermented refined white flour as the skin, and a variety of spices such as cooked chicken breast diced meat, minced pork sandwich meat and meat skin jelly with sesame oil are used as fillings. The tips of the steamed buns are dipped in green onions and sesame seeds, brushed with vegetable oil on the surface and fried in a frying pan. The product is full of form, with yellow sesame seeds and turquoise green onions in the upper part, which is soft and palatable. The lower part is crispy and delicious, and the filling is heavy and juicy, and the more you eat it, the more fragrant it becomes. This snack is best made at Shanghai Wangjiasha Dim Sum Shop.
08 vegetarian vegetable packets
Vegetarian food bun is a special snack of Shanghai Chunfeng Songyuelou Vegetarian Restaurant. The restaurant has a history of more than 70 years, it is a fusion of Beijing, Su, Yangbang flavors in one, but also has a local Shanghai flavor of vegetarian restaurants. The shop's vegetarian assortment, stir-fried mushrooms, Luo Han Zhai, mushroom pot soup, fried crab flour, gluten noodles and other dishes are quite famous in Shanghai, especially the vegetarian dishes made by the shop are well-known and very popular. Vegetarian vegetable buns are made of refined white flour as the skin, and the filling is made of green vegetables, gluten, shiitake mushrooms, winter shoots, and spiced tofu dried and chopped with sesame oil, sugar and other condiments. After the wrapped vegetarian vegetables are wrapped in the basket and steamed, the skin is white and soft, the filling is green and green, bright and pleasant, as soon as the cage is opened, the room is full of raw fragrance, the taste of food is beautiful and refreshing, eat more is not greasy, and it is not tired of eating.
09 Oil steamed buns
Oil steamed bun is a special flavor snack made by Shanghai's century-old restaurant Zao Shen Dacheng Dim Sum Shop. The shop's oil steamed buns are rich in the strengths of the family: the preparation method of the steamed bun skin is taken from the Nanxiang Xiaolong steamed bun, rolled out with a fine powder that is not fermented, the filling is taken from the huaiyang fine soup bun, the meat filling is mixed with bone broth, and the seasoning made of onion, ginger, garlic, etc.; when it is fried, it uses the technique of similar to the fried shortbread, and the jujube is carefully processed to make the steamed bun, the shape is small and exquisite, the skin is golden, the color is beautiful, the entrance is crisp, the meat filling is tender, and the soup is overflowing with one bite, fat but not greasy. After eating, the teeth and cheeks remain fragrant, full of fresh taste, if eaten hot, it will have endless aftertaste.
10 beat sand rounds
Huangshayuan is one of the flavor spots of Shanghai Qiaojiazhai Dim Sum Shop, which has a history of more than 70 years. Legend has it that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, an old lady surnamed Lei in the Three ArchEs of Shanghai, in order to make the soup dumplings easy to store and carry, pioneered the method of rolling white powder on the surface of the cooked soup dumplings, and in order to commemorate her, posterity named this soup dumplings Huangshayuan. Qiao Jiazha Dim Sum Shop operates a rice ball that boils the red beans of Chongming County, grinds them into sand, dries them to become purple-red powder, and then cooks the glutinous rice soup dumplings wrapped with fresh meat or bean paste, sesame seeds and other fillings, drains the water, and rolls over a layer of bean paste powder. This kind of soup dumplings, colored and fragrant, hot to eat with a strong red bean flavor, and soft and refreshing, easy to carry, has always been popular with tourists.
These snacks are tested by diners in Shanghai for many years, and friends from other places may not be used to it, after all, local tastes are different, buy less when buying, and they like to buy more.
The epidemic has subsided, spring is warm, and tourism has been put on the agenda, hoping that we can travel all over the motherland's great rivers and mountains to share this prosperous world.