Yuyuan Mall is habitually called "Old City God Temple" by many people, and some people call it "Yu Garden", in fact, the Old City God Temple is a temple located on Fangbang Road, and Yu Garden is a garden located inside Yu Garden Mall. Nowadays, Shanghainese rarely go to Yuyuan Mall, because it is a must-punch place for many tourists to visit Shanghai, and the vast majority of the crowds are foreigners.
Located next to the Yuyuan Mall, this old restaurant is a well-known shanghainese brand, and it is also a national intangible cultural heritage and a protection unit for the traditional cooking skills of this cuisine. Originally known as "RongshunGuan", this restaurant is said to have been founded in the first year of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of 146 years. The popularity has always been very strong, in addition to a large number of tourists who come to visit, there are also many local repeat customers in Shanghai.
The hotel has three floors, the first and second floors are the lobby, and the third floor is a variety of private rooms. Stepping into the store makes people shine, elegant decoration, as if time and space travel into the Republic of China's private residences, all the details of the decoration, all exude a strong ancient charm. The lobby of the hotel hangs the inscription of the old leader of the last century, and there is a plaque of "Sheng Shi Qi Ying", I don't know who gave it to in the late Qing Dynasty. The seats on the third floor have a wide view overlooking the second floor, and the "Centennial Rongshun" signboard highlights the long history of this long-established brand.
The menu is a specialty, with many award-winning dishes on the menu. Babao duck is a very large portion, is a whole duck with bones, the stomach is filled with bacon, chestnuts, beans, glutinous rice and other ingredients, and then steamed, on the table duck meat crisp, glutinous rice is soft, thick oil red sauce but not salty, the overall taste is very similar to the duck skin wrapped in meat dumplings, can be eaten as a staple food.
Jingkou sansi soup is a very delicate hot dish, made of ham shredded, bamboo shoot shredded, dried tofu shredded, need to be brewed with soup water in a teapot, mashed and then eaten, a very fragrant hot dish. The regular version of the buckle three silk, a total of 999 ham silk, winter shoot silk and dried tofu silk ingredients, 999 represents a long time, the meaning is excellent, but the price is also relatively high, 98 yuan a piece. His family also has a "mini buckle three silk", made of 1999 ingredients, all hand-cut, because the production process is cumbersome and complicated, so this is a limited supply, only 20 copies a day.
The grass head circle is a classic of Hon bang cuisine, and basically every hon bang restaurant has it. The circle is the intestinal head part of the large intestine, which is relatively fatty, and the large intestine or fat intestine that everyone usually eats is the middle section. Because the circle is more greasy, so in the bottom of the pad grass head, grass head is a kind of alfalfa, less than the four-leaf clover one petal, with a white wine fire pull, the taste is absolute! The texture of the circle is very chewy, the grass is slightly bitter, and the sauce is very rich. Except in Gangnam, this dish is hardly visible anywhere else.
The special smoked fish looks like pickled fish and bacon, but it is sweet and nourishing to eat, the meat inside is very tender, not chai at all, the outside is a bit fried crispy and charred, the taste is very good, there is no small thorn, very suitable for wine, even the bones can be eaten together. Stir-fried eel paste juice thick paste, eel silk tender and smooth, delicate meat, soft and sticky taste, with its own aroma, is a rare rice artifact. There are also sauce duck, crab powder tofu, crab powder cage is also very positive Shanghai old taste. This shop is still quite good overall, belonging to the kind of old-fashioned brand that tourists like to punch in, and locals also like to eat!