Shanghai Food
Protography By Mark AndrewsA selection of traditional Shanghai cuisine and food culture.
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Scallion oil noodles at a local restaurant down an alleyway just off Shanghai’s Huai Hai Road.
Mr Yu in his open kitchen in a longtang alleyway in Shanghai.
Mr Yu in his open kitchen in a longtang alleyway in Shanghai.
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Scallion oil noodles at a local restaurant down an alleyway just off Shanghai’s Huai Hai Road.
Mr Yu in his open kitchen in a longtang alleyway in Shanghai.
Mr Yu in his open kitchen in a longtang alleyway in Shanghai.
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The Yu family’s front room made into an unofficial restaurant as experienced on a Lost Plate tour. Cold cucumber dish and fried rice on the table.
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A Chinese lady picks up a foie gras flavoured gourmet xialongbao soup dumpling using chopsticks and a spoon.
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A bamboo steamer basket full of colorful xiaolongbao soup dumplings at the Shanghai IAPM Mall branch of Paradise Dynasty.
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A Chinese lady picks up a foie gras flavoured gourmet xialongbao soup dumpling using chopsticks and a spoon.
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A Chinese lady picks up a foie gras flavoured gourmet xialongbao soup dumpling using chopsticks and a spoon.
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A Chinese lady picks up a foie gras flavoured gourmet xialongbao soup dumpling using chopsticks and a spoon.
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A bamboo basket of pork soup dumplings (xiaolongbao) at a small restaurant in Shanghai.
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A bamboo basket of pork soup dumplings (xiaolongbao) at a small restaurant in Shanghai.
A chef making xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) at a small restaurant in Shanghai.
A chef making xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) at a small restaurant in Shanghai.
Wrapping xiaolongbao soup dumplings
A lady skillfully wraps tiny xiaolongbao soup dumplings at Jia Jia Tang Bao on Shanghai’s Huanghe Road.
Jia Jia Tang Bao’s xiaolongbao in Shanghai
A basket of steamed xiaolongbao soup dumplings at Jia Jia Tang Bao on Shanghai’s Huanghe Road.
Jia Jia Tang Bao’s xiaolongbao in Shanghai
A basket of steamed xiaolongbao soup dumplings at Jia Jia Tang Bao on Shanghai’s Huanghe Road.
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A butcher in a wet market cuts beef while a tourist snaps a picture on a mobile phone on a Cook in Shanghai tour of a market.
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Dried goods including cloud ear mushrooms and walnuts on sale at a market in Shanghai.
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An old style enamel plate of shengjianbao dumplings at Yang’s Fried Dumpling. Shanghai, China.
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Freshly cooked shengjianbao dumplings in the iron skillet waiting be served at Yang’s Fried Dumpling. Shanghai, China.
Crayfish on Shanghai’s Shouning Road
Crayfish (yabbies) along with seafood are the main draw on Shouning Road in Shanghai.
Dessert shop on Shanghai’s Shouning Road
Hong Kong and Taiwanese style desserts on the Shouning Road food street.
Shanghai’s Shouning Road food street
Restaurant staff vie for customers in the early evening on Shouning Road food street in Shanghai
Chef cooking on Shanghai’s Shouning Road
A chef cooks scallops on a grill outside a restaurant on Shanghai’s Shouning Road.
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Helen Liu a guide at Cook in Shanghai explaining century eggs (preserved duck eggs) to a group of tourists in a wet market in Shanghai.
Shengjianbao at Da Hu Chun restaurant
Shengjianbao in the heavy iron cooking skillet waiting for eaters at Da Hu Chun restaurant in Shanghai.
Shengjianbao at Da Hu Chun restaurant
A mixed plate of shengjianbao (2 pork and 2 pork and prawn) at Da Hu Chun restaurant on Sichuan Zhonglu in Shanghai
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Bamboo basket of freshly steamed shao mai dumplings at a Cook in Shanghai class.
A basket of shao mai dumplings ready to be steamed at a Cook in Shanghai class.
A basket of shao mai dumplings ready to be steamed at a Cook in Shanghai class.
Garlic laden scallop
A freshly cooked scallop laden with garlic on Shanghai’s Shouning Road.
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A waitress takes a food order from the dumbwaiter at Shanghai Brewhouse in Jing’an District.
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Lost Plate tour group at a new style Shanghai restaurant with the guide Nick Zhang explaining about the dishes on the table.
A plate of winter melon chips at a modern style Shanghai cuisine restaurant.
A plate of winter melon chips at a modern style Shanghai cuisine restaurant.
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Morning glory in a fermented soy bean sauce at a modern style Shanghai cuisine restaurant.
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A dish of marinated beef over vegetables with a raw egg on top at a modern style Shanghai cuisine restaurant.
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A meal laid out on a table at Lu Bo Lang a famous restaurant in the Yuyuan Gardens area of Shanghai where President Bill Clinton and the British Queen have dined.
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A traditionally home cooked hongshaorou dish which has been cooked for many hours at the Yu’s home in an old style Shanghai building. A dish of cold cucumber and fried rice can be seen behind on the table.
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A traditionally home cooked hongshaorou dish which has been cooked for many hours at the Yu’s home in an old style Shanghai building.
Hongshao rou at Old Jesse in Shanghai
Hongshao rou (red cooked pork) dish at Shanghai’s Old Jesse Restaruant on Taiping Road.
Burger and fries at Shanghai Brewhouse in Jing’an District.
Burger and fries at Shanghai Brewhouse in Jing’an District.
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Although they originate from Hong Kong or Macau, egg tarts are very popular in Shanghai and none more so than from Lillian’s as pictured.
Digging into crayfish
Eating mala flavoured crayfish (yabbies) in a restaruant on Shanghai’s Shouning Road.
UnTour Night Eats Tour on Shanghai’s Shouning Road
Tourists inspect the crayfish (yabbies) and other food outside a restaurant on Shanghai’s Shouning Road.
Crayfish on Shanghai’s Shouning Road
A chef plates up bowls of freshly fried crayfish (yabbies) on Shanghai’s Shouning Road food street.
Crayfish on Shanghai’s Shouning Road
Cooked crayfish (yabbies) waiting for diners outside a restaurant on Shanghai’s Shouning Road
Death by chocolate cake
Hong Kong Plaza branch of House of Flour with their death by chocolate cake, Shanghai.
Shen Jianming head chef at Jianguo 328
Shen Jianming at the entrance to Jianguo 328 a small Shanghai style food restaurant on Shanghai’s Jianguo Road.
Roasting a garlic laden eggplant
An eggplant laden with garlic being cooked on a grill outside a restaurant on Shanghai’s Shouning Road.
Shanghai style barbecue
Barbecued potato slices, lotus root, enoki mushroooms and cauliflower in a restaruant on Shanghai’s Shouning Road.
Shanghai style barbecue
Barbecued shitake mushrooms and garlic shoots in a restaruant on Shanghai’s Shouning Road.
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