Traditional Chinese cuisine is only one of the many cuisines one can taste in Shanghai. When you don't want to make the effort to go to a restaurant, grab a bowl of noodles at one of the food stalls at the Bund and let the world (or the seventeen million inhabitants to start with) pass by. Local food features vegetable and sea food dishes with stew-in-brown-soy-bean and stir-fry-in-vegetable-oil as the main cooking method. Shanghai cuisine, a special hybrid, presenting interesting dishes, especially exotic seafood. Fish and shrimps are considered basic and if possible eels, carp and crab will appear as well. Shanghai is also famous for its sweets, including glutinous rice cakes, steamed bread filled with meat (baozi), dough sticks, French pastries, fruit pies and sweets.
