Cang Lang Ting
Cang Lang Ting is an old-brand restaurant among Suzhou-style noodle shops, features in chewy noodles and strong-flavored dressing. The pastries made are just as good as noodles. The specialties of "tri-color pasty" vary with the season. In winter and spring, they mainly sell crispy gingko cake and sweet New Year cake. Pure Brightness Festival is supplied eith Suzhou-style glutinous rice ball with red bean paste. In summer there are sticky rice ball with stie- fried meat fillings, square cake, Fu Ling cake with nuts, etc. Double-Nine cake is sold at the festical. Moon cake with fresh pork filling is a treat at Mid-Autumn Festival. Throughout the year Dingsheng (bound to win) cake, longevity fish noodle, shrimp noodle, Suzhou- style noodles and snacks.
Address: 1465 Fuxing Road (M)
Tel: 021-64372222
Transportation: Metro Line 1 (Changshu Road Station), Bus 02
Gong De Lin
Gong De Lin is the leading restaurant for "veggie food in the shape of meat dishes". The dishes are carefully selected, meticulously prepared and artistically presented. A variety of tasty and nutritional choices are goof foe health in all seasons. Gong De Lin's vegetarian buns and noodles are popular with diners. The vegetarian moon cakes have won the award "China’s best moon cake" and "famous Chinese pastry".
Specialty: vegetarian bun. Moon cake
Address: 445 Nanjing Road (W.)
Tel: 021-63270218
Transportation: Metro Line 2 (Nanjing Road (W) Station), Bus 20, 37, 112
Wu Fang Zhai Dim-sum Restaurant
Wu Fang Zhai Dim-sum Restaurant was established in 1958. The pastries are made with five recipe-made natural herbal fillings, namely, rose, osmanthus, pine, lotus (or mint), hence the name "Wu Fang Zhai" (literally "five fragrance restaurant"). They are varied in seasons such as glutinous rice ball with red bean paste in Pure Brightness Festival, pyramid shaped sticky rice dumpling in bamboo leaves, Double-Nine cake at the festival, eight treasure rice and sweet rice cake in Spring Festival. The "three sweetness", namely sweet taro, sweet potato and sweet rice-filled lotus roots are most sought-after in decades.
Specialty: glutinous rice dumpling in bamboo leaves, pastries and cakes
Address: 938 Pubei Road
Tel: 021-54198439
Transportation: Bus 43, 830
