# The best Shanghai dishes

Shanghai's 'thick oil and red sauce' home cooking: the signature dishes and snacks from Wikipedia's article on Shanghai cuisine.

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- Nov 6, 2020 · 杨思雨
- https://even.best/en/l/2149/the-best-shanghai-dishes

## Top 12

1. **Nanxiang xiaolongbao** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nanxiang soup dumplings, thin-skinned and juicy, on Shanghai's intangible heritage list.
2. **Shengjian bao** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pan-fried soup buns with crisp bottoms.
3. **Red-braised pork** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Shanghai red-braised pork belly.
4. **Oil-exploded shrimp** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — River shrimp flash-fried and glazed in sweet sauce.
5. **Yanduxian soup** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Soup of spring bamboo shoots, salted and fresh pork.
6. **Eight-treasure duck** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Duck stuffed with glutinous rice and eight treasures.
7. **Caotou quanzi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Braised pork intestines on stir-fried clover greens.
8. **Shanghai smoked fish** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Crisp sweet-savoury 'smoked' fish.
9. **Sizzling eel strips** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Eel strips doused in sizzling oil.
10. **Scallion oil noodles** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Noodles tossed with scallion oil and soy.
11. **Steamed hairy crab** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Steamed Yangcheng Lake hairy crab in autumn.
12. **Pork chop with rice cakes** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fried pork chop with rice cakes.

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