2 / F, Fuxing Commercial Building, 139 Ruijin First Road (opposite to Xinjinjiang)
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Shikumen is the most representative residential building in Shanghai, and is generally considered to be one of the symbols of Shanghai's modern urban civilization. This type of building has absorbed a lot of residential styles in the Jiangnan region, with stone as the door frame and black lacquered solid thick wood as the door leaf, so this type of building is named "Shikumen". Sitting in a restaurant with a Shikumen atmosphere and eating local dishes will definitely make you feel nostalgic while enjoying the food. Today, I will take you to the corner of Shanghai Old Alley to eat.
Environment: The corner is really at the corner, at the junction of Ruijin 1st Road and Changle Road, opposite the New Jinjiang Hotel, on the 2nd floor of Fuxing Commercial Building in front of Exit 3 of Huaihai Middle Road Station on Metro Line 13. Take the long escalator on the first floor to the second floor and you can see the photo walls of the clear brick walls on both sides are all the original Shanghai style in the alleys in Shikumen. Entering the second floor, there are old bicycles, phonographs, copper table lamps with green glass covers in old Shanghai during the Republic of China, advertisements of women wearing cheongsam during the Republic of China, and dining areas divided by Fang and Li, with mosaic marble floor tiles. One room is also full of old suitcases, which is full of the sense of age.
There are large round tables that can seat 16 people, and wooden tables that can accommodate 2-3 people for a drink. The tableware is simple and plain.
Service: At the entrance, there is a usher who greets you warmly and takes you to the corresponding dining area according to the number of guests. There may be many dining areas and they are scattered, so the waiters are in a hurry. I sat in the individual guest area, but as long as you see a waiter nearby and signal him, he will definitely come to serve you. Overall, it's okay.
| Shanghai Braised Pigeon^ The whole braised pigeon is braised in a thick oily red sauce, sprinkled with white sesame seeds, and the taste is also fresh and sweet. Overall, it's good.
|Eight Treasures Spicy Sauce Small Rice Cake^This signature dish is a must-order dish when you enter the restaurant. It has shrimp, green beans, pork belly, crispy peanuts, glutinous but non-sticky rice cake cubes, potatoes, mushrooms, and various fruits. It is fresh and sweet with a slightly spicy taste.
|Eel Shreds in Fried Oil^The eels here are all big and plump yellow eels, so this pot of eel shreds in fried oil just out of the pot are all large pieces of eel shreds, which are very "spicy". When you take a bite, the tender and smooth eel shreds wrapped in sauce are very tasty and satisfying.
|Dry Braised Big Fish Head^I like to eat fish. This big fish head is really big. I tried hard to eat it but didn't finish it. It seems that I overestimated my fighting power. The taste is a bit sweet and sour, so it is still to my taste.
There are many Internet celebrity restaurants now, but after the opening, they will gradually become bland after the fresh period. The dishes at the corner are suitable for bringing the elders to experience, let them eat local dishes, and reminisce the feeling of eating in Shikumen when they were young.
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Shikumen is the most representative residential building in Shanghai, and is generally considered to be one of the symbols of Shanghai's modern urban civilization. This type of building has absorbed a lot of residential styles in the Jiangnan region, with stone as the door frame and black lacquered solid thick wood as the door leaf, so this type of building is named "Shikumen". Sitting in a restaurant with a Shikumen atmosphere and eating local dishes will definitely make you feel nostalgic while enjoying the food. Today, I will take you to the corner of Shanghai Old Alley to eat. Environment: The corner is really at the corner, at the junction of Ruijin 1st Road and Changle Road, opposite the New Jinjiang Hotel, on the 2nd floor of Fuxing Commercial Building in front of Exit 3 of Huaihai Middle Road Station on Metro Line 13. Take the long escalator on the first floor to the second floor and you can see the photo walls of the clear brick walls on both sides are all the original Shanghai style in the alleys in Shikumen. Entering the second floor, there are old bicycles, phonographs, copper table lamps with green glass covers in old Shanghai during the Republic of China, advertisements of women wearing cheongsam during the Republic of China, and dining areas divided by Fang and Li, with mosaic marble floor tiles. One room is also full of old suitcases, which is full of the sense of age. There are large round tables that can seat 16 people, and wooden tables that can accommodate 2-3 people for a drink. The tableware is simple and plain. Service: At the entrance, there is a usher who greets you warmly and takes you to the corresponding dining area according to the number of guests. There may be many dining areas and they are scattered, so the waiters are in a hurry. I sat in the individual guest area, but as long as you see a waiter nearby and signal him, he will definitely come to serve you. Overall, it's okay. | Shanghai Braised Pigeon^ The whole braised pigeon is braised in a thick oily red sauce, sprinkled with white sesame seeds, and the taste is also fresh and sweet. Overall, it's good. |Eight Treasures Spicy Sauce Small Rice Cake^This signature dish is a must-order dish when you enter the restaurant. It has shrimp, green beans, pork belly, crispy peanuts, glutinous but non-sticky rice cake cubes, potatoes, mushrooms, and various fruits. It is fresh and sweet with a slightly spicy taste. |Eel Shreds in Fried Oil^The eels here are all big and plump yellow eels, so this pot of eel shreds in fried oil just out of the pot are all large pieces of eel shreds, which are very "spicy". When you take a bite, the tender and smooth eel shreds wrapped in sauce are very tasty and satisfying. |Dry Braised Big Fish Head^I like to eat fish. This big fish head is really big. I tried hard to eat it but didn't finish it. It seems that I overestimated my fighting power. The taste is a bit sweet and sour, so it is still to my taste. There are many Internet celebrity restaurants now, but after the opening, they will gradually become bland after the fresh period. The dishes at the corner are suitable for bringing the elders to experience, let them eat local dishes, and reminisce the feeling of eating in Shikumen when they were young.
For older Shanghainese, this place is indeed full of nostalgic atmosphere, it feels like returning to the old alleys, they also have some labor reduction, and the dishes are completely Shanghai cuisine
It is indeed very authentic Shanghai cuisine, so I like the taste very much. It is not salty, nor is it as sweet as I imagined. It is just delicious, and the atmosphere is also very good. I had a great time eating.
Today, the two sisters met at the Shanghai Old Lane Restaurant on the corner. In addition to the old Shanghai furniture, the environment here is creative with various suitcases as partitions. I chose the discounted set meal today so I don't have to bother looking at the menu. The cost-effective set meal includes home-cooked dishes such as white-cut chicken, Vietnamese shrimp with soy sauce, steamed yellow croaker with pickles, and scrambled eggs with Guandong fungus. The black bean yogurt is more distinctive as a cold dish or dessert. Shanghai rice cake is even more popular as a memory of childhood. All these dishes are priced at 118 yuan. Two people can't finish them and they have to pack them up. What do you think of this price?
Move the old Shikumen building to the restaurant One of the biggest features of this corner restaurant is that it restores the Shikumen building in Shanghai to the restaurant, which is very old Shanghai style. The most classic dish here is the large intestine and lung soup, which is a must-order for almost every table. A large pot of lung soup was served, which was quite shocking. I feel that this dish has rarely been seen in recent years, and there are even fewer restaurants that can make it well. The large intestine is handled very cleanly and retains its original fragrance. The lung is tender and plump, and the soup is rich and fragrant. After drinking a bowl of soup, I couldn't help but add another bowl. Babao hot sauce, a signature dish of local cuisine, Babao hot sauce with Qt spring rice cake. I really want to ask the waiter to add a bowl of rice. German salted pork knuckle, salted trotter has always been my favorite, the pork knuckle with crispy skin and tender meat is tasty, salty and delicious. The small steamed buns next to it are even better with some condensed milk. Crab stuffed orange, a dish that tests the chef's skills. The delicious crab meat and the fresh orange fruity flavor are perfectly blended, and the presentation is also beautiful. Osmanthus wine dumplings, you must order this for dessert. The soft and glutinous dumplings are filled with sweet black sesame fillings, and the sweet fragrance of osmanthus and the dumpling soup combine to make it sweet and not greasy.
For the gathering of my friends, we chose a local restaurant that suits the public's taste. I had never heard of this restaurant before. We took the escalator to the second floor and booked a private room in advance. It is semi-open and has no door, but it is also a small space. Bamboo Forest Free-range Chicken, the only cold dish, a chicken is half a chicken, the chicken is cooked thoroughly without blood, the chicken is not tender but delicious. Yuanyang Double Flavor River Prawn, stir-fried and fried shrimp, obviously the stir-fried shrimp is of better quality, the fried shrimp shell and meat are a little sticky, but not so crispy that you have to swallow the whole one. Green Willow Lotus Root Frying Fresh Squid & Foie Gras Sauce Fried Double Crisp, I didn't ask what the double crisp was when I ordered it, and found that it was squid and yellow throat after it came up, which is a bit repeated with the stir-fried fresh squid. Although the sauces used are not the same, they are all similar stir-fried, and the taste is quite similar. If you actually order, you can choose one of the two. The fish is fragrant and the color is pretty good. The fish fillet is white and tender, and the bean sprouts are soaked in oil. It's not spicy at all. The name of the barbecued pork chop is quite auspicious, but it's a bit greasy because it's all meat. I can't eat a piece of pork chop. The crispy German pork knuckle is marinated in advance. The skin feels a little undercooked, but the meat inside is very tasty because it has been marinated. Fried rice cake with eight-treasure chili sauce. I don't really like the eight-treasure chili sauce, but it's different with the rice cake. I'm so happy to eat the rice cake. The final bill for ten people was 1,217 yuan per person, which is not expensive, and it's conscientious that there is no minimum consumption for the private room.
Around the corner of Shanghai Old Alley, I patronized this restaurant again. This restaurant is convenient for transportation and has a high cost-effectiveness. I like the dining environment of this restaurant, which is full of old Shanghai feelings. In addition, the dishes are delicious. I bought a set meal and two people were very full. The three-yellow chicken, the chicken is tender and tastes good. Black bean yogurt is the most popular, the beans are powdery, delicious and low in calories, I really love it. Shrimp and steamed yellow croaker are both good and bad, not amazing, but also not disappointing. In short, the restaurant environment, dishes and service are all pretty good, and I will patronize it again in the future.
A local restaurant near my home. We booked seats for a family gathering in advance. Someone confirmed the reservation one day before the expiration date. The service attitude was good. The dishes tasted good and were in line with the taste of Shanghai people. The quantity of the dishes was OK, but the price was a bit high. However, as long as the elders were satisfied with the food, it would be better if there were more brands of beer to choose from.