Shanghai's top ten specialties include Nanxiang Xiaolong, Shanghai raw fried buns, rib rice cakes, Shanghai crab shell yellow, snails, Yangchun noodles, open onion oil noodles, three fresh small wontons, vegetarian buns, And Shanghai sauce duck.
1. Nanxiang Small Cage

Nanxiang Xiaolong is what we know as "Nanxiang Xiaolongbao", a traditional famous food, and it is also a relatively famous snack in Shanghai. The skin is thin, tender, juicy and delicious, and the filling inside the small dumplings is sandwich leg meat, which is made by adding ginger and meat skin jelly, salt, soy sauce, etc., and the skin is made of unleavened refined flour. It tastes fresh, but it's not expensive.
2. Shanghai raw fried buns
Shanghai's raw fried bun is definitely a native Shanghai snack, raw frying is also known as "raw fried steamed buns", crispy skin, strong juice flavor, rich meat filling, exquisite appearance, mixed with meat aroma, oil aroma and green onion, delicious, Shanghai raw frying has a history of hundreds of years, Shanghai's Feilong raw frying, XiaoYang sheng frying, Fengyu raw frying and so on are the most famous.
3. Rib rice cake
Rib rice cake is an affordable and traditional snack with a unique flavor in Shanghai. After the large ribs are served with small, thin rice cakes, which are made of oil and boiling, the rib rice cakes have both the aroma of ribs and the soft and crispy texture of the rice cakes, and the taste is sweet and spicy, tender and delicious. Rib rice cake is a specialty snack that can be eaten at many local restaurants.
Fourth, Shanghai crab shell yellow
Crab shell yellow is delicious and affordable. The traditional crab shell yellow is made from puff pastry with fermented noodles, the crab shell yellow is oval in shape, the cake has sesame seeds, and after baking on the fire, the cake aroma and sesame aroma are mixed together. Crab shell yellow filling is salty and sweet, salty crab shell yellow filling is generally made of fresh meat, ham, shrimp, etc., while sweet filling is made of sugar, rose and bean paste.
5. Stuffed meat with snails
Tian snail stuffed meat is one of the characteristic snacks of Shanghai, using a large fat, thick head of the longan snail produced in Tunxi, Anhui Province, as raw material, after entering the store, first use water to raise for two days, so that it spits out the sediment, and then put it into the pot, plus 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 snack at Shanghai Wuwei Zhai Dim Sum Shop and Fresh Snack Shop.
6. Yangchun noodles
Shanghai Yangchun noodles are a kind of Su-style soup noodles, also known as light noodles, clear soup noodles or clear soup light noodles, the soup is clear and fresh, light and refreshing. It is a famous traditional noodle snack in the Jiangnan area and one of the characteristic snacks of Shanghai. Folk customs call the lunar month of October as Xiaoyangchun, and the Shanghai Jingyin language takes ten as Yangchun. It is served with simmered shallot oil and deeply boiled sea rice (known as Kaiyang in Shanghai) and mixed with cooked noodles. The noodles are tough and smooth, the sea rice is soft and delicious, and the onion oil is fragrant, and after 1945, there was a stall surnamed Chen in the City God Temple who used the daily method of Suzhong's hometown to boil green onion oil and mix the noodles. The green onion is rich and distinctive, very popular, and has been passed down to this day.
7. Stir in onion oil
Kai onion oil noodles is a Shanghai specialty snack, which is well known in the Shanghai area and many people like to eat it. The production method of open onion oil noodles is still very exquisite, the onion white is cut into inches, fried in a warm oil pan, and then the onion oil is mixed with the kaiyang that has been fried in vegetarian oil and soaked in wine sugar, that is, the onion oil is opened. The noodles with shallot oil mixed with noodles are very strong, drain the soup, mix with shallot oil, the color is bright, the food is lubricated and refreshing, the shrimp flavor is fragrant, the green onion is fragrant, and the nutrition is rich.
Eight, three fresh small wontons
It seems that Shanghainese are particularly aware of the size of wontons. Shanghai's three fresh wontons are also different from wuxi's three fresh wontons. The ravioli filling is not a filling made of fresh meat, open foreign and squeezed vegetables, but pure meat. The so-called three fresh halls are all in the soup, egg shredded, shrimp skin, seaweed these three fresh mixed out of the thin skin wrapped in fresh meat, the taste is salty and smooth.
9. Vegetarian food packets
Vegetarian bun is one of the traditional snacks in Shanghai, using flour as the main ingredient, and the cooking technique of vegetarian bun is mainly steamed vegetables, and the taste is salty and fresh. The characteristics of vegetarian food buns: soft leather, fragrant and refreshing filling, is a good point in summer. Shanghainese call buns steamed buns, and vegetarian buns are also called steamed buns. 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. It is famous for its Spring Wind Songyuelou Vegetarian Restaurant.
10. Shanghai ben gang sauce duck
Shanghai sauce duck is one of the most representative of Shanghai flavor of the United States of Shanghai cuisine, sauce duck color yellow and black, with fresh, fragrant, crisp, tender characteristics. After eating, it has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, nourishing yin and lowering fire, stopping hemorrhagic diarrhea and nourishing. Shanghai sauce duck and duck meat is tender, salty and sweet moderate, fragrant and mellow, red and bright color, no greasy feeling, spicy taste. The popularity of Mei Guangming Estate is very high, and the people who queue up every day are three floors outside the three floors.