Posted by The Travel Blogger on March 18th, 2008 in Must Do Activities in Shanghai
Shanghai is never known of having its own typical cuisine; in fact the city gathered its cuisine from the provinces particularly in the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang coastal provinces. Generally, typical Shanghai cuisine is recognized by using alcohol. The most famous dishes they served are fish, eel, chicken and crab; they mostly serve it in cooked/steamed and even raw. Shanghainese as well love in preserving salted meats and vegetables which they mostly used to make the dish a perfect one. Shanghainese as well loves to put sugar on their cuisine which they also combine soy sauce in it as well as effuses and sauces and an outcome for this is not that sweet but indeed flavoursome. Red cooking is famous as well as stewing meats and vegetables in Shanghai.
On the other hand, for tourists Shanghai have various restaurants dine with. However, there are only appointed and featured the best restaurant to dine in and the lists below are recommended for tourists who are looking for the best restaurant in Shanghai.
- Sends & Bund—this restaurant is located in Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu 18, Shanghai. This is the perfect location if you wanted to view the Huangpo River and the skyline. Dishes mostly served in here are skeins of black tagliolini which has shaved octupos, and crispy seared fish mixed with a creative spread of mustard sauce.
- Azul—nestling in the old French Concession area, this place is recognized as the tapas restaurant which serves the best Western breakfast in the city. Most of the dishes being served here are baby spinach salad, sun-dried tomatoes, omelette basil, blue berry pancakes, goat cheese and asparagus.
- A Future Perfect—located in Huashan Lu Lane 351, Shanghai. Diners will be amazed with the dining room of this restaurant since it is being ornamented with a fanciful paint job as well as mod furniture which make the restaurant looks more vibrant and captivating. Menus served here are Tuna-ba-lula and Thor’s Thunder and the famous Mary’s Lamb. Aside from that, this restaurant as well is truly cheap and affordable.
- Jean-Georges—the best place on the bund. The foods served here are a combination of Eastern and Western foods. Tourists dining in here will enjoy the Kuamoto oyster adorned in Champagne jelly which is trailed by raw tuna which is lightened by the Thai chilli paste. The cubed raw kingfish with the Taiwanese mangoes as well as chilli-lemon granita is also a perfect dish to eat in this restaurant.
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