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Shanghai Snack Ranking 2025 Shanghai Snack Recommendation List

Xiao Long Bao

If you want to vote for the representative of Shanghai snacks, then xiaolongbao will definitely come out on top. Xiaolongbao is famous for its large filling, thin skin, and juicy body, and it is used to being called Xiaolong steamed bun in the Wuyu area, which has a high status in the Jiangnan food industry. The history of xiaolongbao can be traced back to the Northern Song Dynasty

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Raw fried buns

Fried buns are an indispensable snack for Shanghainese. Shanghai people are accustomed to call all pastries with and without fillings as steamed buns, such as small steamed buns, fried steamed buns, etc., if one day the dog ignores into Shanghai, it is estimated that it will also be called the dog Buli steamed buns.

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Large and small ravioli

As the saying goes, there are dumplings in the north and wontons in the south. As a snack in the south of the Yangtze River, wontons have the same status in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai as dumplings in the north. In the Jiangnan area, wontons are divided into large wontons and small wontons. Jiangnan people like to wrap big wontons into ingots, but the filling is not

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Shanghai noodles

Southerners don't like pasta? Miss by a mile. In the Jiangnan area, the popularity of noodles is not inferior to that in the north, just look at the branches of noodle restaurants such as Lao Shengxing, Lao Hongxing, Lao Shengchang and Lao Shunchang in Shanghai to know how much Shanghainese people love noodles.

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Rice cake with pork ribs

Pork rib rice cake has a history of more than 50 years in Shanghai, and is most famous for its fresh harvest. However, as the scale of Xiande is getting bigger and bigger, it is also more and more criticized by diners for declining levels. The recipe for pork rib rice cake is not complicated, flour, water chestnut flour, and eggs are stirred and wrapped on the surface of the ribs

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Oil piers

Compared with other snacks produced in traditional old shops, you dunzi is often very marketable, often found on tricycles or dim sum stalls, if you are lucky enough to come across it, then don't miss it.

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Rice balls and rice cakes

Rice balls (ci) and rice cakes are two common types of Shanghainese breakfasts. Although the ingredients are the same, the recipe and taste are completely different. Rice balls, flatbreads, fritters, and soy milk are known as the four King Kongs of Jiangnan breakfast, and its status in the hearts of Shanghai people can be seen

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Fried tofu noodle soup

The fried tofu fine noodle soup seems to be just a fried tofu, vermicelli, and shutter buns added to the water, which looks particularly bland, which is the first impression of many diners on the fried tofu noodle soup, but when you taste it, you will know that this is not the case, and the seemingly tasteless soup is actually very delicious. Oil beans

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Crab shell yellow

Unlike most Shanghainese snacks, which are steamed and boiled, Crab Shell Yellow is a baked dim sum. Compared with other snacks, crab shell yellow is stored for a longer period of time and is less affected by space constraints. Therefore, for many newcomers

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Strip cake and mint cake

There are so many types of pastries in Shanghai that you can't count them on your toes. Among them, the strip cake and mint cake are the most famous. As the name suggests, the cake is made in the shape of a long strip of glutinous rice dough wrapped in fine bean paste and steamed. Then sprinkle sugar osmanthus on top

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Begonia cake

Begonia cake is a good dessert and is very popular in Shanghai. It got its name because it resembles a begonia. The begonia cake just out of the pot is steaming, and the flour skin sprinkled with starch sugar is baked crispy, which is fragrant and sweet, and the middle is wrapped with fine bean paste, and the taste is powdery. However, when eating

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Hemp balls

Hemp ball is also a common Shanghai stall dim sum, the specific origin of which is difficult to verify, only know that it is very popular in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui. The hemp balls look round and golden in shape, and there are often merchants who drizzle sesame seeds on the skin. Eat it

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Round the sand

Legend has it that near the third archway at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a grandmother surnamed Lei, in order to make the cooked dumplings can be stored for a longer time and tried various methods, and finally found that the effect of wrapping red bean flour is the best, which is the origin of the sand round. The shape of the sand circle is presented according to the difference in the powder wrapped

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Youth League

Qingtuan is a seasonal Shanghainese snack that can only be eaten during the Qingming Festival, and it gets its name from the green color of mugwort juice or other grass juice added to glutinous rice flour. Throughout the country, there are many snacks that have gradually faded with the development of the times

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Small Shaoxing chicken porridge

Xiao Shaoxing Chicken Congee is a traditional Shanghai snack with a history of more than 70 years. The founder came to Shanghai from Shaoxing, and in the early days, he set up a stall on what is now Yunnan South Road to sell chicken porridge, and even the well-known Peking Opera performance artist Zhou Xinfang was his frequent customer. Small Shaoxing chicken porridge with chicken

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Eight treasure rice

Eight treasures rice is the finale of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table in Shanghai. Every Spring Festival in the old calendar, there are long queues in front of the time-honored shops selling eight-treasure rice in Shanghai. There are various folk legends about the Eight Treasure Rice, and some say that it is to commemorate the meritorious service made by King Wu of Zhou

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Pear paste sugar

The status of pear paste candy in Shanghai can be on a par with Banlan root, and it is widely loved by middle-aged and elderly people because of its medicinal properties, and in the past, there were even sugar sellers who made up small songs to praise the medicinal value of pear paste candy. Although the pear paste candy does not look conspicuous, it also has a definite help

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Takahashi muffins

Takahashi muffins have a long history, dating back to the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, when they were still called collapsed cakes. Until the beginning of the 20th century, it was carried forward in Gaoqiao Town, Pudong, and was named Gaoqiao muffin because of its crispy taste. Takahashi muffins have an easily distinguishable shape, table

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Chongming cake

Chongming cake is a special pastry originating from Chongming District, Shanghai. In the past, there was a folk proverb in Chongming District called "No money, no money, steamed cake for the New Year", which is Chongming cake. Most people think that Chongming cake is steamed from glutinous rice flour, but in fact, there is a certain amount added to it

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Scallion pancakes

In the past, old Shanghai scallion pancakes were usually sold by hawker carts, and many Shanghainese would eat them for breakfast. It's not so much a snack as it carries memories of old Shanghai. The traditional Shanghai scallion pancake is added to the dough before it is baked in the oven

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Bad snails

The snail is also a favorite snack of Shanghainese. The snails are very tender to eat, and the marinade is rich and mellow, which is very suitable for wine. The production process of the snail is relatively long, first put the snail into the water to rest, wait for it to spit out the sediment, after boiling,

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Tiger claws

Tiger feet are not a native Shanghai snack, but they are loved by Shanghainese. It originates from a kind of dim sum called Vajra navel in northern Jiangsu. The method is very simple, cut the kneaded dough into three knives, put it in the oven and bake, and the baked dough becomes a mold of claws

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Osmanthus sugar lotus

Osmanthus sugar root is an extremely common Jiangnan snack, almost every Jiangnan city has a lot of lovers, it is also called glutinous rice lotus, honey lotus root. Stuff glutinous rice in the heart of the lotus root, and then add water and sugar osmanthus, rock sugar or brown sugar to simmer, which is osmanthus

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Potstickers

Although potstickers do not originate from Shanghai, they are not as easy to see as Xiaolong and fried as they are on the streets of Shanghai, but when you find that fried and fried potstickers are fried in one pot, you should choose carefully, because potstickers and fried have different requirements for heat and duration

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Rice with salted meat

In Shanghai's takeaway list, vegetable rice and bone broth must be in the top three. It's also very easy to make by yourself, cut the bacon into cubes, chop the vegetables, or add diced bamboo shoots according to your personal preference, stir-fry them and put them in the rice cooker with good rice, and cook them together to eat. Note required

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Allspice beans

The five-spice beans from the Shanghai Old Town God's Temple are a famous traditional snack in Shanghai, which has a history of fifty or sixty years, and the earliest sale of five-spice beans is a small shop called Guo Ji Xinglong

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Fengjing Dinghoof

Fengjing Dinghu is not only a well-known snack in Shanghai, but also a traditional famous dish. Fengjing is a small town in Jinshan District, Shanghai, where the locals renamed Qingfeng Jing in honor of an incorruptible Jinshi surnamed Chen, which later evolved into Fengjing. And the source of the dinghoof is its invention

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Steamed buns in oil

The production of Youfan steamed buns is unique, it was created in Shen Dacheng, a century-old shop in Shanghai. The shape of the steamed bun is golden, the skin is fried and crispy, and when you bite into it, the soup overflows, and the meat filling is very delicious because it is integrated into the bone broth. Recommended merchants: Shen Dacheng (Nanjing

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Kanazawa champion cake

Kanazawa Zhuangyuan cake is produced in Qingpu, Shanghai, and is available in two flavors: pine nut and salt and pepper. The shape is flaked, the color is golden, the taste is crunchy, and it melts in the mouth. The salt and pepper flavor is salty, and the pine nut flavor is slightly sweet. Kanazawa champion cake has a nice meaning, therefore

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