Shanghai is an international metropolis. This new city is not only economically developed, but also has good tourism resources. Every year, it attracts a large number of tourists. While enjoying the scenery, tourists will also taste local delicacies and snacks. I think you will know more about the charm of Shanghai through delicious food. So, what are the specialties of Shanghai?
1. Shanghai white chop chicken
White chop chicken is a traditional dish in Shanghai. "When it comes to beheading chickens, it's Shaoxing," has become the mantra of many Shanghainese. Because "little Shaoxing" is a famous "Sanhuang chicken" produced in Pudong area of Shanghai, it has good quality and delicious taste, and won the love of customers. "Little Shaoxing" has also become a famous shop in Shanghai, and white chop chicken is a famous dish in Shanghai. Beautiful shape, yellow skin and white meat, fat, tender, delicious taste, very delicious.
Chicken contains protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium, vitamin A, B1, B2, C, e and niacin. Fat content is less, which contains highly unsaturated fatty acids. The protein content proportion is high, there are many kinds, and the digestibility is high, it is easy to be absorbed and utilized by human body, and it has the function of strengthening physical strength and body. In addition, phospholipids, which play an important role in human growth and development, are one of the important sources of fat and phospholipids in Chinese dietary structure. According to traditional Chinese medicine, chicken has the functions of warming the middle part of the body, tonifying the deficiency and filling the essence, strengthening the spleen and stomach, activating the blood vessels and strengthening the muscles and bones.
2. Shanghai Fried Bun
Pan Fried Bun, also known as Pan Fried Bun (pinyin: sh'ingji'n M & Aacute; NT & oacute; u; Shanghai pronunciation: ssanji mhoedhou), is a kind of local traditional snack popular in Shanghai, which is called pan fried for short. Shanghai Pan Fried Bun can be said to be a local Shanghai snack, which is said to have a history of hundreds of years. It is characterized by the fact that people in Shanghai are used to calling "baozi" as "steamed bread", so the Fried Bun in Shanghai is generally called "Fried Bun". It used to be a tea house and a tiger stove (Kaishui store) concurrently. The stuffing mainly consists of fresh pork and frozen skin. After 1930s, Shanghai catering industry had a professional shop for pan fried steamed bread, and the stuffing color also increased a variety of chicken, shrimp and so on.
Shanghai people call it "pan fried bread", which has a history of hundreds of years. In Shanghai, there are many shops running this kind of snacks. The skin is fragrant, the flesh is tender, and then disappears. Nowadays, there are not many people who know about it.
More than 100 years ago, teahouses in Shanghai were selling fried buns in addition to tea. Later, when people do not taste tea, they also want to use 'tea snacks' as fast food instead of dinner. To meet people's dietary needs, fried steamed bread came out of the teahouse and became a 'street snack'. With the increasing demand, the size of fried buns is becoming larger and larger, even from the traditional "one, two, four" to "one, two, one". The pan-fried skin is big and the filling is big, and the hot soup is also included. If you don't have enough Kung Fu, you can't fry the soup without leaking; if you can't eat or feel anxious, you can easily be scalded by the soup in "pan fried".
3. Grassroots circle
Caotou circle is a famous dish with all colors and flavors, belonging to Shanghai cuisine. This dish is dark red and green, crispy and soft, fat but not greasy. It is a very popular delicacy in Shanghai Haipai menu. The Shanghainese can eat it all the year round now. They can only eat it when it is listed on the market in the past. It is a local gossip in Shanghai. In fact, its scientific name is alfalfa.
This dish is dark red and green, crispy and soft, fat but not greasy, and has high nutritional value.
Pig large intestine: pig large intestine has the functions of moistening dryness, tonifying deficiency, relieving thirst and hemostasis. It can be used to treat weak thirst, anorectal prolapse, hemorrhoids, hematochezia, constipation and other diseases. Because of its cold nature, people with spleen deficiency and loose stools should not eat.
Alfalfa: alfalfa contains a large amount of iron, which is an auxiliary food for anemia treatment. A large number of B vitamins can help to treat pernicious anemia. In addition, alfalfa also contains vitamin K, which has hemostatic effect. Alfalfa and alfalfa phenols, which have cough and asthma relief, have a certain effect on bronchitis. In addition, alfalfa contains crude fiber, which can promote large intestine peristalsis, help defecate and poison Element excretion, prevention and cure defecate secret colon and cancer. In addition, the alfalfa element contained in alfalfa can inhibit intestinal contraction, increase the content of thyroxine in blood, and prevent the anti-cancer effect of adrenaline.
4. Fengjing dingti
Fengjing dingti is a famous traditional dish in Shanghai. Shanghai Fengjing Ding is made of pig hind hoof, Shaoxing wine, ice sugar, cinnamon, clove and other auxiliary materials. Select materials and note the importance of live, raw, inch, fresh; seasoning is good at salty, sweet, bad, sour. The finished product has the unique taste of cold eating 'fragrant' and eating 'glutinous' after steaming. It is red and bright in color, thick in brine, and fat and tender in meat.
'Fengjing dingti' is related to the town's' dingyixing hotel '. In 1852 A.D. (the second year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty), two brothers surnamed Ding opened a hotel named 'Ding Yixing' in zhangjiaqiao of this town. The business was generally acceptable, but they could not satisfy their brothers' desire to do big business and make big money. In order to further open up the situation and expand business, the Ding brothers put their ideas on Fengjing pig's hoof. Fengjing pig is a famous breed of Taihu Lake. It has fine skin and white meat, moderate fat and thin, tender bone and meat. It will be cooked as soon as it is cooked. The Ding brothers took the hind hooves and cooked them with Jiashan yaofushun three sets of special drying soy sauce, Shaoxing Laojiao flower carving, Suzhou guiyuanzhai ice sugar, as well as some cloves, cinnamon and ginger. After firewood, Sanwen and Sanwang, they cooked them with warm fire. After ripening, the shape is complete, the color is dark red and bright, the hot food is crisp but not rotten, the cold food is fragrant and delicious, the meat is tender, the soup is thick but not greasy, it's very delicious, it's not tiresome to eat for a long time, so it's very popular, people call it 'Ding hoof'. Ding hoof. That is to say, Ding Yixing's "braised pig's hoof" specially made in Deli. Because the owner's surname is Ding, it's called "Ding ti".
5. rounds of sand circle
Leishayuan is one of the characteristic traditional famous spots of qiaojiazha snack shop in Shanghai, which has a history of more than 70 years. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Lei Ruo, who lived near the three archways in Shanghai, set up a stall to sell soup dumplings. In order to do more business, try to make up for the inconvenience of storage and carrying. At first, a layer of glutinous rice dry powder was rolled on the surface of the dumpling, and then various kinds of dry powder were trial produced. As a result, the effect of using red bean powder was very good. Roll a layer of ground dried bean paste on all kinds of cooked dumplings. There are not only delicious dumplings, but also red bean fragrance. Because there is no soup, it is easy to carry, hot and cold, and unique. It is popular with tourists all the time because of its rich red bean flavor, soft glutinous taste and easy to carry.
Qiaojiazha is a place name, originally referring to a residential area on qiaojiabang (now qiaojialu) in Shanghai. It's named for the fence around it. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, someone opened a pastry shop here, that is to name names. Qiaojiazha dim sum shop is well-known in Shanghai for its exquisite selection of materials and fine production. Among all kinds of food, leishayuan is particularly famous. Therefore, qiaojiazha has become one of the famous places in Shanghai. In the 1930s, due to the development of municipal administration, Qiaojia road was located in a remote part of the city, and the business of the dim sum shop was gradually light. In the 1940s, some people saw that qiaojiazhai dim sum shop had a good business. In addition, qiaojiazhai dim sum shop was opened at the entrance of aixiansi Road (now Yongjia Road, Xiangyang South Road) in the west of ladu Road, which specializes in the production and sale of fine dim sum. Because the entrance of the city is better than Qiaojia road in the city, people will soon take the name of the shop as the place name and call it qiaojiajie. Later, in order to distinguish the two, it is generally divided into South qiaojiazha and West qiaojiazha. After liberation, in 1956, the "hongyunlou restaurant" located in the west gate of South City moved out because of supporting the construction of the mainland, and the qiaojiazha dim sum restaurant in Qiaojia road moved to the original site of the restaurant in the west gate. Because it is located in downtown area, qiaojiazha dim sum shop at the west gate has become a famous shop in Shanghai. People also call qiaojiajia bar near qiaojiajia bar dim sum shop of Ximen as Qiaojia bar, which was rarely used in Qiaojia road. It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was an old lady Lei who opened a soup dumpling shop in the city of Shanghai. She found a trick for the convenience of customers to take the cooked soup dumplings home for eating. She picked up the cooked soup dumplings and put them into the fried red bean powder to mix, so that the outer layer of the soup dumplings was covered with red bean powder. In this way, the soup group no longer brings soup, which is convenient to carry. You can eat hot and cold food at your convenience, so it's called "leishayuan". After the establishment of Qiaojia restaurant in Shanghai, leishayuan was produced in bulk. The shop also improved the production method, stir fry the red bean powder into dry sand, then sieve it with 17 eyes to make the red bean powder more delicate, drain the water from the cooked glutinous rice balls, and then put it into the powder plate to roll, the finished product is purple red, fragrant, soft and waxy, which is popular with diners. Qiao's Restaurant changed its name from Lei Shayuan to Lei Shayuan, which became one of the traditional snacks in Shanghai.
6. Mint Cake
Peppermint cake is one of the most characteristic pastry dishes in Shanghai cuisine of China. The main ingredient of peppermint cake is made of peppermint. The cooking skill of peppermint cake is mainly steaming vegetables, and the taste belongs to fragrance. Characteristics of Mint Cake: the cake is light and elegant in color, cool and delicious, which is a good summer resort. Summer is the best-selling season for peppermint cake. It looks white as snow and has a little green on it. That's peppermint. Peppermint cake is a glutinous rice flour mixed with a little peppermint powder, dotted with red and green silk. It's sweet and cool. After eating, the mouth is just like brushing your teeth. The breath is absolutely fresh.
Glutinous rice: glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin and starch, which are rich in nutrition. It is a warm and strong food, with the effects of Tonifying the middle and Qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and stopping the asthenic sweat. It has a certain relieving effect on poor appetite and abdominal distention and diarrhea. Glutinous rice has astringent effect, and has a good therapeutic effect on frequent urination and night sweat.
Japonica rice: the crude fiber molecules in the rice bran layer are helpful for gastrointestinal peristalsis and have good effects on stomach disease, constipation, hemorrhoids, etc.; it can improve human immune function, promote blood circulation and reduce the chance of hypertension; it can prevent diabetes, beriberiberi, senile plaques, constipation and other diseases; it has more protein, fat, vitamin content and can be reduced by eating more Cholesterol, reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke; japonica rice can prevent allergic diseases, because the red blood cells provided by japonica rice have strong vitality and no allogeneic protein enters the blood stream, it can prevent some allergic skin diseases.
7. Spareribs rice cake
Spareribs cake is a kind of traditional snack with economic benefits and unique flavor in Shanghai, which has a history of more than 50 years. It's made of small and thin rice cake, which is cooked in oil pan. It has not only the strong fragrance of ribs, but also the soft waxy crispy of rice cake. It's very delicious. The ribs are golden in color, crispy on the surface and tender in meat. In the mouth, waxy hair is fragrant, slightly sweet and spicy, fresh and delicious.
The two main ingredients of spareribs rice cake - spareribs and rice cake have high nutritional value. In addition to protein, fat and vitamins, spareribs also contain a lot of calcium phosphate, bone collagen, bone mucin, etc., which can provide calcium for children and the elderly, with the functions of Nourishing Yin, moistening dryness, benefiting essence and nourishing blood. Rice cake contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and other nutrients.
8. Shanghai big / small chaos
Shanghai wonton is a classic local dish. There are many shapes of wonton, such as Yuanbao, circle and triangle