Shanghai Food

Shanghai Food

I tried many types of different food in Shanghai, hoping to sample the best Shanghai food around, that despite not having any restaurant guides.... but mainly just hopping into restaurants I think are good.

This is one of my star highlights - hot pot, where one cook the beef in the spicy gravy and then dip with the garnishing.

This rather premium dish (about 90 yuan) served well especially during the cold weather in Shanghai... and was really yummy and unique!

Actually, with such cold weather, that was not my only hot pot type of food I ate in Shanghai. I also tried this fish steamboat, which was really a huge meal (I think up to 2 can eat this).

Again, the soup is somewhat spicy, and cooked steamboat style.

But of course, what is Shanghai food without trying their dumplings, right? I tried all types there - like these fried ones.

I like this a lot as the skin was really thin and kinda smooth (btw, to know this restaurant just lookout for its cartoon icon).

In another restaurant, I tried the famous crab based dumpling. In some restaurants/ eateries, they give you a straw to suck the 'soup' out. But for this restaurant, one is to bite the thin skin, and just drink from it (they provide a small saucer just nice for it).

I wasn't sure whether to eat the skin in the end or not (after drinking the soup)... but since my Shanghainese 'neighbour' did so, so did I - I guess the dumpling skin here is soft enough to be eaten.

I also tried this platter of different xiao long baos, each with a different filling of meat inside.

I had my fair share of dumplings in Shanghai, sometimes ordering with noodles.

Actually I ate a lot of noodles in this China trip... but also had some rice in between to get some variety.

I'm surprised that this meal is a place where many other celebrities had too! (at the eatery in Raffles City). But honestly, I wonder what they ordered!

I also had an opportunity to try out the Shanghai's mixed rice. This eatery was very near the hotel I stayed... and I was so happy to see it - thinking that finally, I have a reasonably priced meal nearby.

But when I ordered my food, they have this policy of minimum orders. And I had to take on more dishes - with the total bill going to 15 yuan!

Somehow, I find our mixed rice back home much tastier and with wider variety, and without the minimum order thing.

Well that was my last at the mixed rice stall. But that was not the last eatery I had in the Jing An area, near my hotel.

The other unique food which I tried is this supposedly very popular 'satay celup' style eatery.

Customers choose the ingredients from the array and put them into the basket, which is then handed over to the cook.

To which then, the cook cooks them in a soup type dish. It was quite unique and not too bad.

Actually, there's lots more of other types of food in Shanghai - like the many variety international cuisine and fast food.

But as tempted I was for those, I made my point to eat just Chinese food here (except for 1 meal).... and in a way, I'm surprised that I could take it everyday, despite the food in Shanghai being somewhat different in taste from what we have back home :)

Coming up next: the Shanghai snacks!