Cuisine in Shanghai
As an international city, Shanghai offers all kinds of cuisines from around the world. Of course, the majority of restaurants offer Chinese food at reasonable prices.
Chinese food is famous for having Eight Major Cuisines: Sichuan, Zhejiang, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Fujian, Cantonese and Anhui.
Not surprisingly, Shanghai Cuisine, also known as Ben Bang, is not one of the Eight Major, but successfully refines all the work of the surrounding provinces such as Zhejiang and Jiangsu. Through years of culinary practice and the assimilation of the art in other styles of cuisine, Shanghai chefs have also created a style of cuisine peculiar to the region. Shanghai dishes are usually characterized by the use of heavy and highly flavored sauce.
The use of sugar is another uniqueness found in Shanghainese cuisine and, especially when used proportionally with soy sauce, the taste created is not so much sweet but rather savory.
If you like a bit of spice, go to one of the city's many Sichuan or Hunan restaurants. The food is fantastic!
In Shanghai, you could also enjoy Vegetarian cuisine, Japanese cuisine, Indian cuisine, Thai cuisine......
