Dining Out

The cooking styles of Shanghai are world-spanning. There are excellent European Continental cuisines in stylish restaurants.  German and American cuisines are also widely available. There are a couple of excellent Indian restaurants in the Tandoor and Hazara. Others include Italian,  Thai, Mexican, Vietnamese and even Brazilian and Cajun cuisine.

Shanghai is also a center of Chinese cuisine culture. It integrates various dishes from the country. Shanghai cuisine itself is also very delicious.

 Nanxiang Steamed Pork Dumplings (Nanxiang xiaolongbao) are a traditional snack of Nanxiang Township in Shanghai's suburbs and can be found all over Shanghai.

In the city, there are several famous places to get Nanxiang Pork Dumplings. One is the area around the Yuyuan marketplace while the others are snack restaurants at the intersection of Tibet Road and Yan'an Road near People's Square.

Niangao is a typical southern Chinese dish made with glutinous rice flour strips sliced into pieces and stir-fried with other ingredients. One especially popular way to prepare Niangao is to stir-fry it with pork spareribs. This Shanghainese dish is known as Paigu Niangao.

Recommended restaurants:

HOOTERS:
What is Hooters: A casual, beach-themed restaurant known for the Hooters Girls-the surfer girl next door. Hooters serves seafood, burgers, sandwiches and “nearly world famous” chicken wings.

Atmosphere: Hooters Girls hula-hoop and sing and the restaurant offers open kitchens with boisterous cooks.  Rock and roll plays from the jukebox, cold beer flows, and sports are on television. Hooters describes itself as “delightfully tacky, yet unrefined.”

Locations: Over 375 in 46 states; Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canana, the Caribbean, England, Guatemala, Mexico, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Venezuela, and now, right here in Shanghai!

Zip18 Euro-Asian Teppanyaki restaurant
Located on the top floor of the Bund Riverside Hotel.  ZIP18 is a newly decorated Euro-Asian cuisine restaurant with over 900 square meters of total space. ZIP18 is the prime spot for fine dining, wine tasting and casual recreation occasions. It is also one of the best restaurants with the greatest view of the city.

The specialty of ZIP18 restaurant is French style Teppanyaki that adds a touch of Asian scent to European dining tradition. French ingredients, nutritional considerations and top-class chefs ensure the taste and quality of your dining experience. While enjoying the meal, the tremendous view through wide scaled windows also brings you visual satisfaction.

Big Windmill Private Kitchen
The Big Windmill Private Kitchen, integrates Sichuan cuisine with Cantonese cuisine.  It uses traditional vegetable essence, and abandons local customs of using vegetables in thick red oil sauce in order to make fashionably healthy and high-quality delicacies.

The dining room is quiet and low key.  The large-scale crystal chandelier reflects a warm tone with gentle lighting to produce a spacious environment yet retaining a warm, romantic feeling.

La Seine Restaurant
La Seine Restaurant provides the very finest of French cuisine prepared by our renowned French chefs. We open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and brunch, for seven days a week. La Seine also serves grocery delicatessen products such as pastries, freshly baked breads, cheeses, homemade chocolates, wines and cold-cuts. Most products are fully imported from overseas.

There are two different locations: One in Ascott Pudong , the other Somerset Grand Puxi.

The Tandoor
The Tandoor is Shanghai’s first and finest Indian restaurant.  It was opened in 1994 at the food street of Jin Jiang Hotel. The intimate design of the restaurant, the authentic food, the excellent service, as well as the mysteriously romantic atmosphere make it one of the best exotic themed restaurants in Asia and a favorite dining destination for gourmets from all over the world.

The largely barbeque and curry based dishes, are prepared by Indian chefs, taking into consideration the spice level preferred by the guests. While the ingredients are imported from India along with the entire kitchen and service team.