Shanghai has a long history. Dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period, it belonged to the fiefdom of the State of Wu. Food culture is also very long, let's take a look at some of the historic foods.
Seawater peaches
It is said that the first person in Shanghai to cultivate peaches was Xu Longxing, the son of the astronomer Xu Guangqi. The literature records the "Qunfang Spectrum": "The peach is unique in Shanghai, and Gu Shangbao's West Garden is particularly good."
It wins people's welcome with thin skin, juicy, fragrant and sweet taste
Shanghai pear paste candy
It is said that pear paste sugar began in the Tang Dynasty famous Phase Wei Wei (Wei Zheng) and has been around for more than 1,300 years. The herbs are ground into a powder and boiled with pear juice and given to their long-ill mother. After this method was handed down, it became a therapeutic food pear paste sugar.
There are many varieties of it, such as hundred fruit pear paste candy, ham pear paste candy, rose pear paste candy and dozens of others,
Shanghai Pudong chicken
It is the only local chicken breed in Shanghai, its meat is fat, tender, fresh and flavorful, and it is often used as white chopped chicken or stewed on the feast. An adult rooster can grow up to 9 pounds, so it is called "nine pounds yellow".
Directions: White chopping, braised pork, stir-fried diced, steamed, stir-fried sauce, etc., are all superior.
Matsue perch
Songjiang perch is only produced under the Xiuye Bridge outside the West Gate of Songjiang County, Shanghai, and is a specialty of Songjiang.
Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties began to be famous throughout the country, the meat is tender and fat, fresh and fishy, no fine burrs, delicious taste, is the most delicious of wild fish, but also one of the "four famous fish in China".
Mint paste, yuan cake, butterfly puff pastry, Chongming golden melon, a pinch of puff pastry and so on
Some of the above information comes from Baidu