People of Shanghai are very particular about foods and tend to light tastes, biased by tradition to slightly sweet tastes. Meat or vegetables, fresh ingredients are their preferred choices. Gongdelin Vegetarian Restaurant is a restaurant nationwide famous for its vegetable buns, the fillings of which are made of dices of green vegetables, oil gluten, shiitake, […]

People who love snacks are called “Chanlaochong” (Shanghai dialect meaning “Greedy Bugs”) in Shanghai. Around the City God Temple, there are snacks of too many varieties to number. As the paradise for snacks of local tastes for hundreds of years, this is the “Holy City” for spelled snack pilgrims. Rib rice cakes, Nanxian small steamed […]