Shanghai Food - What and Where to eat in Shanghai

Shanghai boasts one of China's most characteristic and distinctive cuisines. Shanghai cuisine is well known for the cooking of freshwater food, sea food and vegetables in season, because Shanghai's of unique location, just south of the Yangtze River and at the estuary of the Huangpu River, where the freshwater fish and shellfish are abundant. The flavor of Shanghai’s cuisine is mainly lightly and delicately seasoned. Famous Shanghai dishes include Fried Crab Ovum, Black Sea Cucumber with Shrimps Roe, Bamboo Shoots and Turnips, and Covered Three Shreds of Mushrooms.

Shanghai enjoys a good reputation in Chinese gourmet circles, and numerous restaurants have sprung up here specializing in almost all of China’s regional cuisines, like Beijing cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Suzhou Cuisine as well as Shanghai local dishes. In addition, even more exotic flavors from all over the world are available here, and one could say that all kinds of fast food in China first appear in Shanghai. Here the highly recommended restaurants are 1221 Restaurant, New Bund Restaurant, Taihu Boat Cuisine as well as Shanghai Classical Hotel, etc.