Food

Chinese cuisine ranks one of the best in the world, whereas, Shanghai cuisine ranks high in China. There are in Shanghai famous restaurants with chefs well-known for cooking dishes of Beijing, Guangdong, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Anhui and Fujian---eight celebrated styles of Chinese food. And each style, in turn, consists of several local dishes. Available also in Shanghai are a number of Western-style restaurants as well as vegetarian restaurants serving dishes cooked with vegetables and bean products only. These restaurants are what makes Shanghai cuisine so celebrated both at home and abroad.

Restaurants

The Shanghai Old Restaurant is a hundred-year-old establishment in the local Shanghai culinary style. Freshwater fish is the strength of this restaurant, whose menu features such delicacies as eight-treasure duck, red-cooked bullhead fish and braised meat preserved in fermented rice en casserole.
Address: 242 Fuyou Road
Tel: (021) 63289850

Yangzhou Restaurant
Restaurant is famous in Shanghai for its Yangzhou-style dishes from the well-known Mu's Family Kitchen. Major dishes include pork in jelly, stewed crab ovum with pork patties, Mu;s braised meat slices, minced fish with pine nut kernels. Its famous pastry inludes lightly fried dumplings stuffed with scallion-flavored prok, and eight-treasure shaomai.
Address: 72, Nanjing Road West,
Tel: (021) 63587988

Meilongzhen Restaurant

Meilongzhen is a renowned restaurant characterized by its Sichuan dishes prepared in the Shanghai style. Specialties include braised prawns, egg plants in fermented bean sauce, ginkgo nuts cooked with shrimp meat, and double-cooked pork sandwiches.
Address: 22 Lane No. 1081, Nanjing Road West
Tel: (021) 62535353

Lupolang Restaurant
Lupolang Is Shanghai's most famous pastry shop selling dozens of light refreshments in both Shanghai and Lake Taihu pleasure-boat styles. These include steamed buns stuffed with mushroom and vegetable, stuffed buns with three kinds of sliced meat and vegetable, pyramid-shaped dumpling of glutinous rice and ham wrapped in reed leaves, and flaky cakes stuffed with jujube paste.
Address: 131 Yuyuan Road
Tel: (021) 63280602

Juelin Vegetarian Restaurant
A famous vegetarian restaurant in Shanghai, Juelin serves such special dishes as minced fish braised with wolf-berries, imitation duck meat and ham.
Address: 250 Jinling Road East
Tel: (021) 63260115, 63200177