Shanghai

Shanghai is considered the culinary capital of China and the Paris of the East. Due to mild weather, this region teams with freshwater fish and offers abundant produce, rice and, most importantly, tea and wine. Local cuisine, referred to as red cooking, features slow-simmering dishes. Complex sauces are usually seasoned with plenty of sugar and rich dark soy sauce.

"While Chinese cuisine ranks high in the world, the cuisine of Shanghai ranks high in China. This cosmopolitan city attracts the elite of the cooking class. Here you can sample the eight celebrated cooking styles and the most famous dishes of faraway provinces without traveling the length and breadth of the China. In fact, here you can sample famous dishes from every country around the globe.

Shanghai’s unique contributions to Chinese cuisine include the use of alcohol. Fish, eel, crab, and chicken are “drunken” with spirits. And don’t be surprised to find that the distinct, seemingly savory flavor infusing local dishes simply comes from a simple but expert blend of sugar and soy sauce."

Appetizers
Drunken Squab
Aromatic Spareribs

Soup
Hot and Sour Soup

Entrees
Shrimp in Lobster Sauce
General Tso's Chicken

Dessert
Coconut Pudding

Chinese Black Vinegar

Ginseng

Making Ginger Juice