The owner of this restaurant, "Sister Zhu", is a neat and fiery person, with excellent cooking skills, and the restaurant named after her is also very memorable.
The old store is located in South Shaanxi Road, the store area is not large, entering the store is the staircase leading to the mezzanine, the cash register is located on the first floor, the cash register wall is behind the kitchen, sitting on the first floor of the scattered seat can hear the sound of stir-frying. This is a good store privately collected by Shen Hongfei, the general consultant of "Tip of the Tongue", and he also brought Chen Xiaoqing to taste it. The dishes are not perfunctory because of their fame, and the dishes are as delicious as ever, and you can often see diners from Hong Kong here.
The most popular thing in Fu Ji is the Internet celebrity fried pork chop. After serving, a whole large piece of pork chop is larger than the size of a dinner plate, and it is really bigger than a human face. It is a technical job for such a large pork chop to be fried thoroughly, but Fu Ji did it. Tonkatsu is a product of the popularity of Western food after the opening of Shanghai in 1843, and has now become one of the home-cooked dishes in Shanghai, and locals like to dip it in spicy soy sauce when eating it. Fu Ji's fried pork chop is fried golden and crispy, and the meat is still delicious when bitten into it, and it can be eaten with sweet and spicy sauce to highlight the freshness of the meat and the crispiness of the skin.
The owner, Sister Zhu, was originally an architectural designer, her ancestral home is Fujian, and her family business is all over Southeast Asia. Sister Zhu specializes in Fujian cuisine and Nanyang, so the menu of Fu Ji will include Indonesian shrimp cake salad, fresh shrimp and golden grapefruit salad, Malay fried Guidiao and other foods. Of course, the signature Nanyang curry is full of flavours and should not be missed by those who love Southeast Asian cuisine. Only those with an asterisk in the menu can be slightly spicy or heavily spicy, which suits different tastes.
Sister Zhu has a very strict control over the production, often purchasing ingredients in person, and resolutely pouring them out if the taste or appearance of the product is wrong, and never serving it. There are many stir-fried side dishes on the menu, such as fried barbecued pork, typhoon shelter prawns, and garlic water spinach, all of which are made with conscience, and it is hard to imagine that a small shop will have such a surprising delicacy. There are many home-made products in the store, such as the soy sauce of claypot rice is specially blended by the restaurant, the highland black tea is specially sourced from Sri Lanka, the peanut butter is made with sweet peanuts from Fujian, and the soup base of beef brisket noodles is made with roasted pork bones and fish bones, without MSG. Even a cup of salted lemon seven is made with the local lemon pickled by Sister Zhu for more than 3 years, which is salty, sour and refreshing. His pineapple oil will also bake the bottom of the bread slightly charred, and the slightly crispy texture is particularly fragrant.
The old store is shabby but clean and tidy, with awards from large and small food media on the missing glass table. The menu is pressed under the glass pane of the small table, and although the font is dense, the classification is clear and clear. The food is served quickly, and the clerk has a good attitude, but some clerks will gather to chat in their spare time, and it is not easy to call the clerk on the second floor, which needs to be improved. The sound of the kitchen came from time to time, but it was not noisy, and fortunately there was no smell of oil smoke.
Sister Zhu also opened a Zhu Sister Fu Ji all-day tea restaurant in Westgate Square, with a larger dining space, royal blue and brick red tables and chairs complement each other, and there are round tables suitable for 6-8 people in the store. The dishes of the new store are quite different from the old ones, and of course, signature dishes such as pork cutlets, frozen milk tea, and stir-fried cured glutinous rice will not be taken off the shelves. The new restaurant has removed the word "Hong Kong style" and added pho, pickled rice and a lot of Southeast Asian dishes to the menu. The new restaurant's eel claypot rice, seaweed and oyster cakes, Thai seafood noodles and avocado milkshakes are also very popular.
In all fairness, Madame Goose's environmental services and quality control are very balanced, and Fu Ji's advantages lie in taste and cost performance, and Fu Ji is well deserved as one of the top Hong Kong-style tea restaurants in Shanghai.
