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10 Popular Shanghai Snacks      
 
  • The solidified pear syrup can be divided into one for healing effect and one for taste. The first one can relieve cough and asthma, as well as stimulate the appetite by so many medicinal herbs, such as almond, the root of balloon flower, Tuckahoe, tuber Pinellas etc.
  • Cream spiced beans are made by the local green broad beans with the ingredients such as fennel, cinnamon bark, salt, sugar, cream etc. It tastes slight sweet and delicate flavor, which is good for stimulating the appetite.
  • The flaky pastry is crispy, delicious, aromatic and as brown as the color of a cooked crab. The fillings include green onions, pork, crab meat, shrimp, sugar, mashed beans, jujube paste.
  • You'd better taste it in hot because at that time, the bottom is golden-colored and crispy, while the rest part is white and soft. The wonderful stuffing mixing fresh meat with sesame or scallion is especially wonderful.
  • It is a kind of fried food cooked with pastry cover and black mashed dates inside. It is very popular among the tourists from Hong Kong, Macao and Japan for its golden color, cute figure, crispy pastry and delicious stuffing.
  • YangChun noodle is smooth and tasty, mixed the fresh and delicious dried shrimps with scented scallion oil. It is said that in 1945, a businessman with the surname Chen stirred the noodle with special scallion oil which was made in the typical way of his hometown. It was so unique that it is popular until now.
  • The typical flour dough has the ingredients of diced chicken and meat, mixing with the delicious soup. Because of the ear-like figure, it got the name "Mao er" meaning the ears of cat. But here I??d like to recommend an unique one in Qiao Jiashan Restaurant of Shanghai. The special things are the hand-made flour piece and the meat or bean paste stuffing.