Famous
Shanghai cuisine
specialties

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Sweet and Sour Pork

Generally sweeter and more sour than the Cantonese version.

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Beggar's Chicken

Coated in wet clay, then baked, so that the hardened clay can be chipped away from the tender chicken.

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Soup Dumplings

They are filled with a broth, then steamed. The soup squirts out in the diner's mouth as he bites into the dumpling.

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Ten Varieties Hot-Pot

A plate of sliced meats and vegetables which the diners cook in a communal pot of steaming broth.

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Yangchow Fried Rice

Leftover rice stir-fried with an especially rich mixture of foods.

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Lion's Head

A casserole dish of huge steamed pork balls.

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Soused Shrimp

Live shrimp are placed in spiced wine. They become inebriated, and are eaten in that condition.

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Squirrel Fish

A flattened deep-fried fish served whole and smothered in sweet-and-sour sauce.

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Eight Precious Rice

A sweet rice pudding with mixed dried fruit, often served in mid banquet.

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Dragon Well Tea

Some connoisseurs consider it to be the finest green tea in the world. It is grown near Shanghai.

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