Snacks in Shanghai
Shanghai boasts one of China’s best and most distinctive cuisines. Influenced by its position just south of the Yangtze River and at the mouth of the Huangpu River, the region abounds in a selection of dishes that are unique to Shanghai but also influenced from neighboring provinces. Therefore, the snacks are diverse. When you come to Shanghai, tasting the must-eat snacks is must-do.
Nanxiang Steamed Stuffed Bun(南翔小笼包)
Nanxiang-Steamed-Stuffed-Bun-Shanghai Food
Shanghai Nanxiang Steamed Stuffed Bun has a history of more than 100 years. The Nanxiang Steamed Stuffed Bun, known as Xiaolongbao, cleverly hiding its soup within its delicately pinched wrapper, has reached cult-like fanaticism in this city. Even though it burns the mouths and tongues of novice dumpling eaters, People in Shanghai just cannot live without this Shanghai classic.
Fried Steamed Bun(生煎馒头 )
Fried-Steamed-Bun-Shanghai Food
The Fried Steamed Bun, referred to as fried baozi, is one of the traditional snacks in the South, mainly distributed in Shanghai, Suzhou and other places in Jiangnan(the regions south of the Yangtze River). Shanghai people used to call “bun” as “steamed bread”, and because the wrapper was made without fermentation, it was named after the fried steamed bun.
Crab-yellow Pastry(蟹壳黄)
Crab-yellow-Pastry-Shanghai Food
Crab-yellow pastry belong to Shanghai cuisine. Founded in the early 1920s, the crab-yellow pastry cooked by Shanghai Luochunge(萝春阁) and Wuyuan Cake Store(吴苑饼家) is the most famous. It adopts a pastry surface and a yeast dough to make a flat round cake. The cake surface is covered with a layer of sesame and is baked on the furnace wall. The fillings are salty and sweet, salty with onion oil, fresh meat, crab powder, shrimp, etc., sweet with white sugar, rose, bean paste, jujube and so on. Because the shape of the cake resembles a crab shell, the color after frying is as deep red as the back of the crab shell, so it is called “crab-yellow pastry”.
Mint Cake(薄荷糕)
Mint cake is one of the most popular pastry dishes in Chinese Shanghai cuisine. It is made with mint as the main ingredient. The cooking technique of mint cake is mainly steamed, and the taste is clear. Features of mint cake are light and elegant, cool and delicious, which is the best food in summer.
Wonton(馄饨)
Wonton-Shanghai Food
As we all know, wonton is a kind of food with rich cultural connotations. Shanghai wonton is a classic local dish. There are many shapes of wonton, and there are shoe-shaped gold ingots, circles, triangles, rectangles, cylinders or semicircles. The filling of wonton has lean meat, cabbage and so on, and the wonton wrapper is smooth and elastic.
