Foods in Shanghai

Previously, I wrote about the architectures in Shanghai, including the most famous ones and the old and new resident buildings. Now I would like to transfer our focus to food.

China has a diversity of delicious foods. Food in different parts of China are totally different. Among them, the most famous styles of cooking are Guangdong food and Sichuan food. Actually, Shanghai doesn’t have an exact style of food because there is a mixture of all kinds of food from all over China, even all over the world. Shanghai’s feature is diversity. So is the food.

However, Shanghai is famous of its Dim Sums. Though most of the Dim Sums in the city aren’t from Shanghai, all of them are known as “Shanghai Dim Sum”.

Travelers like to taste Shanghai Dim Sums in the Yu Garden and most of them like the foods there. Yet Shanghainese never eat in Yu Garden because it’s too expensive and the foods don’t taste good, neither. Therefore, those who said that the Shanghai Dim Sums in the Yu Garden are excellent should know that real common Shanghai Dim Sums even taste far better.

People in Shanghai have different styles of food every day. For example, my family may have spicy Sichuan food for Monday, Sweet-tasting food of Zhejiang (a district of China, next to Shanghai) for Tuesday, Sushi for Wednesday, Spaghetti for Thursday, and Hot pot for Friday. We enjoy the life that we have different kinds of food everyday and we always expect a new flavor.

If you ask me what I miss in Shanghai the most, I will answer you: food. There are so many distinguished Dim Sums in Shanghai and I will introduce them in detail later.