While in China, you will be in direct contact with Chinese cuisine and you will realize that this is a harmonious integration of color, redolence, taste, shape and the fineness of the instruments. For the cooking process, chefs pick choice and various ingredients and seasonings while employing unparalleled complicated skills handed down from their fathers, ever aspiring to their ideal of perfection for all the senses. Among the many cooking methods they use are boiling, stewing, braising, frying, steaming, crisping, baking, and simmering and so on. When they finish their masterpieces they are arranged on a variety of plates and dishes so that they are a real pleasure to view, to smell and ultimately to savor.
Chinese Cuisine can rise to many different occasions from luxury court feasts, fetes, holy sacrificial rites, joyous wedding ceremonies to simple daily meals and snacks. The art of a good cook is to provide a wholesome and satisfying dish to suit the occasion.
Here we present you 10 of the Top-10 dishes to eat while in Shanghai.
1. Chow mein
2. Chicken stir-fried with pak choi
3. Pineapple pork
4. Spicy Sichuan noodles
5. Five-spice whole roast duck with pancakes, cucumber, spring onion and plum sauce
6. Egg-fried rice
7. Aromatic wok fried beans
8. Spiced beef stir fry wraps
9. Stir-fried vegetable wraps
10. Chinese pork potsticker dumplings