Shanghai's cuisine is a blend of two cuisines, Benhang and Haipai. It features fresh meat, vegetables, and seafood, like fish, shrimps, and crabs. They have a lot of methods, like steaming, braising, stewing, stir-frying, quick-frying, deep-frying, boiling, marinating, smoking and roasting. Also, Shanghai Cuisine has become influenced by Cantonese Cuisine. The foods are now less oily and more delicate with the use of higher quality and expensive ingredients.

Below are some favorite dishes. They are the famous soup dumplings, roasted pork chops, fried mantou, stinkiy tofu, and mini wontons in soup!