Style of cooking: Jiangsu cuisine Flavor: fresh and fragrant Introduction: The Chicken Wings and Legs with Brown Sauce is a famous local dish served in the Meilongzhen Restaurant in Shanghai. It originates in the Taolechun Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant in Shanghai in the late 20th century and was created by the famous chef Yan Chenglin and some other chefs inspired by the Peking Opera The Drunken Concubine. It used to be called “Chicken Wings and Legs [...]

Style of cooking: Jiangsu cuisine (Suzhou area) Flavor: fresh scent Characteristics: Fried shelled shrimps with Biluochun tea is a dish in Suzhou style. In this dish, the chefs makes use of Biluochun tea as an ingredient, which provides the dish with an aroma of tea and a fresh flavor, making it a light, refreshing dish, with a simple but elegant color. Ingredients: 350g of large and fresh shelled shrimps, 10g of Biluochun tea, 6-7g of [...]

Area: Shanghai Flavor: sweet Introduction: This is a famous traditional Shanghainese snack, which originates in Qing Dynasty, and was then served by the mobile snack stalls. In the 1920s, it became a famous traditional snack in the Town God’s Temple and was served by Guxingshun, a Glutinous Rice Balls Boiled in Fermented Wine Restaurant. In the 1930s, the Glutinous Rice Balls Boiled in Fermented Wine served by the Chengchang Restaurant near the “Big World” was [...]

Style of cooking: Fujian cuisine Flavor: salty and fresh Characteristics: “Drunken Chops” is a traditional and simple Fuzhou dish. Many families in Fujian commonly cook praiseworthy Drunken Chops. Ingredients: 400g of tenderloin pork with the bone still in, 75g of clean water chestnuts, 50g of tomato sauce, 1g of curry sauce, 1g of sesame sauce and 4g of orange juice. Cooking method: 1. Cut off the better part of the backbone in the tenderloin pork; [...]

Area: Tianjin Flavor: salty and fresh Introduction:   This snack is named after the childhood nickname “Goubuli” of Gao Guiyou – the originator of the snack. In the late Qing Dynasty, Gao Guiyou set up a steamed stuffed bun shop in Sanchakou of the South Canal. He ran the shop meticulously, constantly improving ingredients and techniques; thus later created this unique steamed bun with large stuffing. The buns attracted more and more customers, and the [...]