Gaoqiao Shortcake
The ingredients used for this shortcake are wheat flour, lard, sugar, red beans and osmanthus. It is a rich and easily crumbled pastry, and has become one of the four renowned pastries from the Gaoqiao Bakery. All the products from this bakery can be had at its retail department at the corner of Huaihai Zhong Road and Ruijin Road.

Crab-brown Baked Cake
The cake is crisp, savoury and aromatic as brown as the colour of a cooked crab. The fillings include green onions with oil, pork, crabmeat, shrimps, sugar, roses, mashed beans, jujube paste. The Wu Yuan Snack House at the corner of Shimen and Weihai Roads is the most famous shop for this pastry.

Fried Mantou(Shanghai)
In Shanghai, people usually call Baozi (bread) to be Mantou, so fried Mantou , in fact, is fried Baozi. The semi-fermented paste is fried on the saucepan with spraying water several times during cooking. You’d better taste it in hot because at that time, the bottom is golden-colored and crispy, while the rest part is white and soft. The wonderful st...

Local River Crabs(Shanghai)
If you are looking for a real Shanghai experience, then ask a local about Dazhaxie or local river crabs. Shanghainese go absolutely insane over these delicacies every autumn. The Chinese have a saying that female crabs are to be eaten in September and male crabs in October. This saying has to do with the amount of yellow (the eggs of the female) and paste...