# Shanghai's classic benbang restaurants

Red-braised pork, yan du xian and xiaolongbao: the time-honoured Shanghainese restaurants recommended by locals and food rankings.

- 10 votes · 12 items
- Sep 10, 2025 · 高琳
- https://even.best/en/l/1305/shanghai-s-classic-benbang-restaurants

## Top 10

1. **Shanghai Old Restaurant** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Benchmark of Shanghainese cooking by Yu Garden, founded in the late Qing.
2. **Lü Bo Lang** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — By the Yu Garden lake pavilion, famous for delicate dim sum.
3. **Jesse (Lao Jishi)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Home-style Shanghainese food on Tianping Road, famous for red-braised pork.
4. **Lanxin Restaurant** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Small restaurant on Jinxian Road serving rich, authentic local dishes.
5. **Guangmingcun** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Huaihai Road institution with queues for fresh-meat mooncakes.
6. **Nanxiang Mantou Dian** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Famous xiaolongbao shop inside Yu Garden.
7. **Wang Bao He** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Time-honoured house famous for hairy crab and yellow wine.
8. **Lao Ren He** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Long-established Shanghainese restaurant.
9. **Lao Zheng Xing** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Classic Shanghainese restaurant founded in 1862.
10. **Xiandelai** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Time-honoured shop for pork chop with rice cakes.
11. **Fuchun Xiaolong** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Old xiaolongbao shop in Jing'an.
12. **Dexing Guan** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Time-honoured restaurant founded in 1878, known for braised sea cucumber with shrimp roe.

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