Feng Yu Restaurant
Feng Yu Restaurant with black characters on orange board is not spacious buy snug. On an early morning of autumn or winter, you may hang on in here, serves with hot fried stuffed bun with chives plus fried tofu rice noodle soup. You can’t wait to use chopsticks. The white skin broken once bit, warm delicious soup and golden dough crusts are so luscious that you ignore the grease of buns. Inexpensive and tasty, Fengyu is fairly popular in Shanghai.
Specialty: fried stuffed bun, rice soup with fried tofu
Address: 41 Runjin Road (NO.2)
Tel: 021-53061742
Transportation: Metro Line 1 (Shaanxi Road (S) Station), Tourist Line 10, Bus 26, 945
Qiao Jia Shan Restaurant
Xian De Lai Restaurant serves the national favorite pork ribs fried with glutinous rice cake. Established at Lane 177, Xizang Road (S.) in 1921, it used to cater for low-end diners, hence the title "Xian De Lai" and "King or pork ribs". The name "Xian De Lai" implies "luscious, virtuous and prosperous". The pork ribs are made like fans, golden in color, delicious in taste and tender in texture. The rice cakes are white, smooth and chewy.
Specialty: pork ribs fried with glutinous rice cake
Address: 98 Yunnan Road (S.)
Tel: 021-63366108
Transportation: Bus 23, 123, 926, 980
Shen Da Cheng Restaurant
Shen Da Cheng Reataurant was set up in 6th year of Qing Dynasty Emperor Guang Xu (1875). The founder Shen Ajin combined the best of dim-sum and traditional snacks, careful in selecting row materials and meticulous in preparations. Reputed as "king of dim-sum in Shanghai", some popular specialties include longevity peach-shaped cake, osmanthus cake slices, sticky rice ball with red bean paste and glutinous rice dumpling in bamboo leaves. Shanghai-style dumplings in bamboo leaves retain the feature of being fragrant, chewy and tasty, and curry chicken dumpling, the first of its kind, was produced. A glutinous rice dumpling in bamboo leaves going with a bowl of wanton soup sell very well at Shen Da Cheng.
Specialty: sticky rice cake slices, glutinous rice with bean paste, spinach-dyed sticky rice ball with red bean paste
Address: 636 Nanjing Road (E.)
Tel: 021-63225615
Transportation: Metro Line 1 (People's Square Station), Tourist Line 10, Bus 19, 37