For food lovers, tasting the yummy local food is definitely unmissable in Shanghai. But as newly-comers, you may have no idea which to choose when facing the varieties of restaurants, night markets and the numerous kinds of delicious food. So in your limited time, why not follow our professional guide to some characteristic restaurants and taste the most representative local food?

At about 18:00, your private guide will pick you up at the No.4 Exit of Suzhou Road metro station. You can also talk over with the guide about the meeting time convenient for you. No matter from the hotel or the place where you just finished a one-day tour, this metro station is easily accessible by metro, city bus or taxi. In the following 2 - 3 hours, we will walk about 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) to go to 4 - 5 restaurants or dessert shops and taste more than 10 kinds of dishes and snacks. During the trip, the guide will also introduce you the food culture of Shanghai and China, as well as the origin, story and cooking method of each dish. So you can not only have a taste of the delicious food but also learn about interesting stories behind it.

When the tour ends, the guide will escort you to the nearest metro station so that you can return to the hotel or head to the next destination by metro.

Just take action! Stay hunger and enjoy this Shanghai night food tour with us!

 Friendly Tips

If you have any taboos about dining, please inform us in advance so we can arranged the suitable food for you.

Meals: Snack Dinner

Recommended Snacks

Fried Steamed Bun

It is a kind of traditional local snack with a history of about 100 years. Its crust is thin, snow white and soft on the top and crispy & golden-colored at the bottom. The filling is mainly made of pork and pork skin jelly originally. Now, it also has chicken and shrimp. Before being served, it is sprinkled with sesame and chives. Take a bite, you will find it also rich in marinate. But be careful not to get scalded.

Steamed Stuffed Bun

The steamed stuffed bun looks like the water chestnut which is smaller with thin and translucent wrap. The filling is usually made of lean meat, pork skin jelly and sesame, so it tastes fresh and fragrant. In different seasons, the filling also varies, such as the shrimp in summer and crab meat in autumn. It would taste better when eating with ginger, vinegar and a bowl of egg soup.Glutinous Rice Dumpling in Sweet Rice Wine

Spring Roll

The wrap of spring roll used to be made of rice and now is flour. It is very thin. Put into the fillings, fold up the two ends and roll up. Finally, fry it into golden color. The wrap is crispy and the filling is tasty and soft. Usually, the filling is bean sprout, chives and dried bean curd. Some may put into oyster, shrimp, mushroom and hotbed chives.

Glutinous Rice Dumpling in Sweet Rice Wine

This is a traditional dessert in southern China. The sweet rice wine is a kind of special traditional wine in China which is made from steamed glutinous rice mixed with yeast. When making this dessert, the glutinous rice dumplings will be boiled in the wine. In the end, put one egg and some Chinese wolfberry in it.

Palmier

This desert looks like a butterfly. When eating, you will find there are several crispy layers as thin as paper and your mouth will be filled with the flavor of cream and butter. On the surface is sprinkled with granulated sugar. It is not very sweet, so both the elder and the children can enjoy it.