Popular Chinese cuisine
Besides being the largest city in China and one of the world’s greatest, Shanghai is also a unique blend of modern and traditional cultures. Exceedingly tall and mint-fresh skyscrapers coexist with derelict neighborhoods that escaped bulldozers’ overzealous attempts to beautify Shanghai for the Olympics 2009.
The Chinese indifference to attaching much significance to material status helped them to develop a quintessential culinary culture that – unlike the snobbish French cuisine – appeal to all sections of the people. You can enjoy a hearty Chinese meal at a humble roadside restaurant at a price that wouldn’t make a deep hole in your pocket. Other diners wouldn’t stare at you strangely if you can’t handle your chopsticks properly!
Global reach
You don’t even have to go to Shanghai for the sole purpose of indulging in quality Chinese food, unless you are a television host presenting programs on word’s exotic food and your employer picks up the bill.
Authentic Chinese grub is available practically anywhere in the world. Food joints at the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles are simply fantastic. Whatever is the purpose of your Shanghai visit – whether business or pleasure – the information contained here will help you enrich your personal culinary experience.
Chinese food is not exactly the same everywhere. Shanghai delicacies are different from their other incarnations elsewhere on the mainland or in numerous China Towns in different parts of the world. The British Empire doesn’t exist anymore, but the sun still doesn’t set anywhere on the globe littered with China Towns except on the two Poles!
Decadent city
By the mid 19th century Shanghai was one of the very few Chinese cities that got its exposure to various European merchants and émigrés who settled in this flourishing and decadent city to carry out their businesses – mainly opium – for getting richer or murdered depending on their activities. Anime en Español
Shanghai restaurant owners, practical businessmen as they were, sensed an opportunity to make big bucks by making their eateries by mixing European flavors to their traditional Chinese cuisine.
With the end of the Opium War and the return of normalcy by mid 19th century, this decadent city flourished further and so did its restaurants selling exotic Chinese food to their cash-rich patrons who could afford to eat out more often and spend huge sums of money on lavish parties. Chinese food is different in Shanghai than what you get in Beijing or Nanking, but it is absolutely delicious.
Eating out
Go to any restaurant that you fancy and try Shanghai cuisine. In local lingo it is called Hu Cai. It has two distinct styles – Bendang and Haipai.
Benbang is Shanghai’s original cuisine, very traditional and family type, a bit unglamorous perhaps but tastes superb. Haipai blends Western flavors and also flavors from other regions of China.
Both make generous use of meat, pork, chicken, vegetables and varieties of marine products like fish, shrimps and crabs. What eventually comes out their respective kitchens taste delicious – not very hot – mellow, a bit spicy no doubt, but quiet subtle.
Selecting menu
Reading menu is an excruciating exercise whether you are in Paris or Shanghai. It is slightly easier in Shanghai because the few English words printed along the Chinese name is quite understandable. Waiters at Shanghai restaurants are always help you to select your menu.
Nightlife
Shanghai abounds with bars and restaurants. Nightlife is quite gentle here. Sitting in a balcony bar and looking out at the Bund area with ornate classical buildings you will enjoy your beer more.
Enchanting Shanghai
There is a saying in China that roughly translates like this: lucky are those born in Shanghai because of the opportunity they have for tasting the heavenly delicacies that come of its kitchen. Come to Shanghai and be counted as one of the lucky few!
Dining in Shanghai | Travel Destination
Besides being the largest city in China and one of the world’s greatest, Shanghai is also a unique blend of modern and traditional cultures. Exceedingly tall
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