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Here is a list of 9 snack bars in Shanghai that I personally think are worth visiting

1. Wanshou Zhai - an ideal Shanghai-style snack bar - three delicacies and big wontons

Maybe you will think that this store is not easy to find

Maybe you will think that this small store is not clean and crowded

Maybe you will feel that sitting at the door The old aunt is not very hygienic

Using the hand that just collected the money, she wiped it twice on the rag and continued to wrap those big, white and fat wontons

But the three delicacies here are big The wontons will not disappoint you, they are definitely the best three-fresh wontons in Shanghai

Big size, plump body, rich fillings, local taste, affordable price

Walking into the traditional shop located between the old-fashioned Shanghai residential houses on Shanyin Road and under the shade of the French plane trees

For an old man wearing a white coat and reading glasses Auntie pays 3.5 yuan.

A bowl of three fresh wontons, QQ's sweet, fragrant and filling. . .

This is my ideal snack bar in Shanghai. . . (Perhaps, there is an old couple wearing Chinese tunic suits and cheongsam sitting next to them? ^_^)

Address: No. 123, Shanyin Road, Hongkou District (between Stara Road and Jixiang Road). Per capita RMB 10.

2. Lan Kwai Fong - the king of Shanghai beach noodles - braised yellow croaker noodles, yellow croaker soup with pickled vegetables, fried pork chops, sweet-scented osmanthus wine dumplings

This Lan Kwai Fong and that Hong Kong Lan Kwai Fong is a different matter

This is a local noodle restaurant in Hongqiao, the place with the highest concentration of food in Shanghai

The noodles here are the best in Shanghai Of course, the price is also hefty

The signature stewed yellow croaker noodles, chewy noodles, delicious and tender boneless yellow croaker, and seafood soup made from shellfish, great.

Fried pork chops, soaked in sauce in advance, sweet lovers will definitely like it. It is delicious with a little spicy soy sauce

Pickled cabbage and yellow croaker soup can really be described as such, fresh Eyebrows are falling

Osmanthus rice dumplings made with wine, black glutinous rice + "black Yangsha" + osmanthus sugar, overflowing with aroma, sweet and a little salty

A must-go for those who love noodles. A store

Also, don’t compare her with grandma, that’s totally two different things

Address: No. 417, Loushanguan Road, Changning District (near the Xianxia intersection) RMB 50 per capita

3. Green Wave Gallery - Shanghai's orthodox dim sum - Osmanthus pulled cake, eyebrow cake

The Green Wave Gallery mentioned here refers to the old shop next to Jiuqu Bridge

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The ￥50 afternoon tea snack set for one person can be said to be a complete collection of snacks in Shanghai

Osmanthus pulled cake is the best in Shanghai, fragrant and delicious

This eyebrow cake is almost unmatched in other places The extinct stuff is also available here, and it’s very delicious

There are also several other Shanghai-style snacks, such as Xiaolong, which are also good

The taste here may not be top-notch. , but this pure old Shanghai feeling of the City God's Temple is not found in other places

It is very satisfying for three or five close friends to enjoy tea, eat snacks and chat here

However, as a state-owned store, the service naturally needs to be improved. . .

Address: No. 125, Yuyuan Road, Huangpu District (Chenghuang Temple Jiuqu Bridge), per capita RMB 50.

4. Meixin Dim Sum Restaurant - No. 1 in dumplings in Shanghai - fresh meat dumplings

Where is the best dumpling in Shanghai? It’s not the famous Ningbo dumpling shop in Yuyuan

It’s the Meixin Dim Sum Shop on Shaanxi Road

The dumplings here are thin and waxy, and almost look like Crystal clear feeling

The filling of fresh meat is particularly outstanding, the meat is tight, the soup is fresh, and it feels like there is a trace of soy sauce, how can it be described as a beautiful word~

The taste of black ocean sand Delicate, sweet but not greasy, and also good stuff

The funny thing is that this store has a bit of style. If you have a break at noon, you will say that it is a state-owned time-honored brand after all

Address: Jing'an No. 105, Shaanxi North Road, District (Intersection of Weihai Road), per capita ￥10

5. A Niang Noodle House (Taihe Restaurant) - the most popular noodle restaurant in Shanghai - yellow croaker noodles + pickled vegetables, crab noodles

Speaking of the style of the store, we have to mention the most popular noodle shop in Shanghai - A Niang Noodle House

This small shop only had an area of ??6 or 7 square meters on the east side of the road. The small storefront

later developed and opened up a battlefield of less than 20 square meters across the road

There are two reasons why it is elegant

First , there are winter and summer vacations throughout the year, and one month off during the dog days and the Chinese New Year.

There are business hours in a day, from 6 to 9 in the morning, and from 11 to 14 at noon.

(However, I heard that due to the good business, the holidays and business hours have been adjusted)

Second, you need to get a number to eat a bowl of noodles. Generally speaking, you need to get a number during peak eating hours. Waiting for about 40 orders

That means you have to wait for at least 50 bowls of noodles, usually about 40 minutes.

I don’t think there is another restaurant like this in Shanghai. But maybe it’s due to Shanghainese’s habit of “making a fuss” haha

But to be honest, the noodles in this store are indeed commendable. The standard Soviet-style white-core noodles are chewy.

The yellow croaker + pickled vegetables in the toppings are a perfect match, extremely delicious, and the autumn crab noodles are also great

But when it comes to the soup, I think it has a lot of MSG. Yes, although the lady who claims to be kind-hearted, but in my opinion is a human spirit, she keeps saying that her soup never contains MSG. . . I personally don’t like this restaurant, but I still have to write it down. To be honest, if you are a young food lover in Shanghai and you are a little bit bourgeois and petty, this restaurant The store should be observed, studied, practiced and discussed as a typical snack bar. It is definitely one of the compulsory courses for Shanghai snack literacy class. It is by no means flattery. The status of A Niang Noodle House is indeed like this. A Niang Noodle House culture? Grandma’s noodle shop phenomenon? Although I don’t like to queue for half an hour and squeeze into a small table with 5 or 6 people to eat this bowl of noodles.

Address: No. 19, Sinan Road, Luwan District (near Huaihai Road), ￥15 per person

6. Jiajia Soup Buns - the sleaziest but most crowded snack bar in Shanghai - shrimp soup dumplings

I mentioned earlier about queuing up to get the number at Grandma Noodle House, let’s talk about it here It was said that Jiajia soup dumplings were queued up to receive playing cards~ Haha, I was not mistaken, they were receiving playing cards. I wonder if the landlady of Jiajia has a hobby of playing cards and came up with this method of queuing up. Queue up according to the order of the black peach, heart, grass and flower diamonds A-K. If you take the diamond 2, and you are now queued to the Q of hearts, it means that you have to wait for 15 people before you can eat it~ Be creative, haha~ But it’s okay It shows that there are so many people queuing up. . .

Talk about the taste. The biggest feature of the soup dumplings here is that they have thin skin and plenty of soup. The filling is tight and delicious. The most delicious soup dumplings are the shrimp soup dumplings. The combination of the deliciousness of the pork and the seafood flavor of the shrimp is really perfect. It's wonderful, but the environment here is really the worst among Shanghai's snack bars. It's a small store of 5 or 6 square meters, dirty tables, dirty floors, and you can often see a cat walking around. Xiaoqiang also comes out to poke his head occasionally. . .

Address: No. 638, Henan South Road, Huangpu District (intersection of Wenmiao Road), ￥15 per capita

7. Beiwanxin--Shanghai's steamed buns--pork buns

In my opinion, whether it is pan-fried, steamed buns, or steamed buns, it is not just about the fillings. Nowadays, the taste of the fillings is often not very different. In fact, the skin and bottom are very important, and the quality is obvious. , and, for example, there are usually some small shops near your home or work. The buns they make actually taste good and the fillings are delicious. But if you compare them with the ones in Beiwanxing, from the outside, you will think that the buns you usually eat are the same. Why are they so yellow? The taste is very different. One is a bit sticky to the teeth, while the other is soft in the mouth. The buns here can be described as "tender". They are white and small. The filling is meat without soy sauce, and the taste is delicious and delicate. , typical Shanghainese steamed buns.

Address: No. 462, Huaihai Middle Road, Luwan District, RMB 5 per capita

8. Zhang's Restaurant - No. 1 in pot stickers in Shanghai - pot stickers, egg and pork ribs

Zhang Ruhua is one of the founders of Little Shaoxing and the sister of Zhang Runniu of Little Shaoxing. We used to open Little Shaoxing Bai Zhan Chicken together, but for some reason we opened Zhang's, and it's right next door to Little Shaoxing. They sell chickens and snacks at the same time. The environment is similar to Zhen Ding Chicken. The white chicken is delicious and starts at 5 yuan. For sale, although the taste is not as good as Little Shaoxing, it is much better than Zhending Chicken. The pot stickers are worth trying. They cost 2.2 yuan for 4 pieces. They are the best I have eaten. The fillings are fresh, the soup is juicy, non-sticky, and the skin is crispy. It is the best pot stickers I have ever tasted in Shanghai. I also recommend the egg spareribs and fried pork chops. They are comparable to the ones in Lan Kwai Fong. They are also very thick, tender and very delicious. Overall, it is a promising chain store, but it is a pity that they only have 4 branches. Hongkou, the impact is not very big.

Address: No. 457 Liangcheng Road, Hongkou District, per capita: ￥15

9.Tima Harbor Caffe--the most cost-effective cheesecake in Shanghai--marble cheesecake, tiramisu

The origin of the term tima is a bit interesting. It is a homophony of the Chinese word "iron horse", which means bicycle. The literal translation of tima harbor is the harbor of bicycles. Since bicycles are the main means of transportation in China, the owner of this store chose this name. I hope this place can become a haven for ordinary people, and it seems that it has almost achieved this. I can’t say that the cheesecake in this store is the best in Shanghai. After all, some high-end Italian restaurant guys have never tried it, but tima’s cheesecake is definitely the most cost-effective. , ￥15 a portion, the taste is definitely worthy of praise. Pure, rich, sweet, smooth, on point, and praise are all adjectives for the stuff here: especially suitable for those who like sweets. The marble cheesecake and tiramisu inside are definitely worth a try. Try it

And unlike Chinese snacks, there seems to be no problem of unstable quality here. Almost everyone who introduced me said it was good, especially mm. If you want to please a certain mm, you can give it a try. Oh~

Address: 134-137, Hongqiao Shanghai City Food Street, No. 100 Zunyi Road, Changning District, 40 per capita

Haha, I originally wanted to include the Little Jinling Salted Duck

However, due to the unstable quality of the stores, good times and bad times, I will not list them

Among them, Wanshou Zhai, Lan Kwai Fong, Meixin, Zhang's, and Tima are the five that I particularly like. What I like

Actually, what is listed here is purely personal preference. It’s for sure that tx has different opinions~

There are too many, it’s up to you to see for yourself