Eat Shanghai Food in Top Shanghai Tours

Shanghai Cuisine is not one of the Eight Major Cuisines of China but is a choice blend of the most appealing aspects of these other national styles of food.Benbang Cuisine, literally meaning 'local cuisine', is the traditional family style cuisine that appeared in Shanghai over 100 years ago. Using fresh fish, chicken, pork and various vegetables China tours as the main ingredients, it always has a great flavor and a bright color derived from the oil and soybean sauce. Like the food of Suzhou and Wuxi cuisines, Benbang food tastes fresh, mellow and sweet.Shanghai dishWhen you come to Shanghai, do not miss the chance to go to famous Shanghai Cuisine restaurants and try the signature local dishes.

1. Xia Zi Da Wu Shen is noted as the most famous seafood dish in local cuisine. Dried sea cucumber is immersed in water to restore its original size and then stewed with oil, yellow wine, soybean sauce, broth, sugar, shallot, starch sauce and Yangtze River cruises shrimp roe. This dish is nutritious with rich protein and minerals and is said to effectively control cancer.

2. Ba Bao La Jiang is typical among the few spicy dishes. It is a Benbang dish featuring great flavor and bright color. Bean sauce and chili sauce are blended and stir-fried with Shangri-la tour shelled shrimps, chicken, chicken stock, pork, pig offal, dried small shrimps, bamboo shoots and various kinds of seasoning. This dish with such a great number of ingredients gives us some idea of how delicate Shanghai food can be.

3. You Bao He Xia is a good choice if you like sea food. Live shrimps are deep-fried and then sir-fried with a special sauce made of yellow wine, soybean sauce, sugar, shallot sauce and ginger sauce. The dish tastes fairly sweet and fresh. Yan Du Xian is a delicious stew. Pork and ham are first steamed Shanghai tours and then stewed in a soup with fresh bamboo shoots.