The food is known for its round shape and brown color which looks like a crab. The flaky pastry is crispy, delicious, aromatic and as brown as the color of a cooked crab. It has two kinds of stuffing: the salty ones and the sugary ones. And in most stores, you may only find the salty ones. The fillings include green onions, pork, crab meat, shrimp, sugar, mashed beans, and jujube paste. If you want to find the pastry with the highest quality, the best place you should go to is the Wuyuan Cake Home in the crossing of Weihai Road in Haishimen No.1 Road.

It is an economical and unique snack in Shanghai with a long history of about 50 years. The chop, with a piece of rice cake, is fried and cooked. So it is mixed with both the flavor of spicy chop and crisp rice cake. There are two makings in shanghai for this snack; the representatives are shuguang restaurant and xian laide cake store which have been famous for their chop rice cakes since 1930s; although the making procedures are different

It is one of the favorites of the locals. Different from the northern China ones, the Shanghai version is smaller. The buns are usually steamed in containers made of bamboo. The skin of the buns is very thin and the buns are very juicy. You can eat the buns with the best taste in the suburb town named Nanxiang and No.638 the north of He’nan road in Huangpu district.

The typical Shanghai cuisine snack. The foundation member and mainly operated skilled workers are all Shaoxing people, who together formed a small Shaoxing world here. Thus people began to call it "the small Shaoxing chicken porridge place", and then the name came down. It has many chain stores. And you may find your favorite in Pudong Revenue No.125..

In shanghai, people usually call baozi (bread) to be mantou, so fried mantou , in fact, is fried baozi. the semi-fermented paste is fried on the saucepan with spraying water several times during cooking. The wonderful stuffing mixing fresh meat with sesame or scallion is especially wonderful. Many stores can offer this snack with a good taste. Shanghai shengjian snack store,, feilong shengjian snack shop, shenzhou soybean milk store may be your good choice.

A famous food of Wuweizhai snack store and Xiandelai snack store. It shares great popularity both with the local people and the tourists. The median size escargots are boiled with the distillers' grains or in wine. The escargot is fresh, the seasoning is appetizing. Once you have a taste, you will never forget it.

The vegetarian bun is the specialty of certain yuyuan garden and Old City God’s Temple area snack restaurants. The bun itself is a light white bread. It is stuffed with fresh chopped green vegetables, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and marinated bean curd with sesame oil and sugar as the condiments. It’s quite appetizing in color , aroma and taste.

It is a specialty in Shanghai Seaside Snack store, and one of the most famous snacks in Chenghuangmiao Temple .Rich in nutrition, it has an appetizing color and a delicious taste.

There is a custom for the local people that the October in lunar calendar is another spring; hence the number of ten refers to spring. In the old days, the noodle was just worth ten wen (the money unit in ancient times), that’s why the noodle was called yangchun noodle-“chun” means spring in Chinese. Yangchun noodle is smooth and tasty, mixed the fresh and delicious dried shrimps with scented scallion oil.

It is the glutinous-rice dumpling covering ground adzuki bean. It is said that at the end of Qing dynasty, an old lady called lei made a living by the glutinous-rice dumpling stall in shanghai, and she had made many contributions to this food. In order to memorize her, people began to name this dumpling"Leisha".