On these hot, hot days, the best street snack is a refreshing juicy wedge of fruit, skewered on a stick, for one yuan (16c). The vendors are on every street corner and the fruit sells as fast as it can be peeled and sliced.
Choose from watermelon (xī guā 西瓜) rockmelon or Hami melon (hāmì guā 哈密瓜 - an elongated version of a rockmelon or canteloupe), or pineapple. Cold, ripe, fresh and delicious. This is real fast food.
Number 3 Liangpi - a spicy cold noodle dish
Number 4 Langzhou Lamian - hand-pulled noodles
Number 5 Cong You Bing - fried shallot pancakes
Number 6 Baozi - steamed buns, Shanghai style
Number 7 Jian Bing - the famous egg pancake
Number 14 Bao Mi Hua - exploding rice flowers
Number 16 Bing Tang Shan Zha - crystal sugar hawthorns
Number 21 Suzhou Shi Yue Bing - homestyle mooncakes
Number 22 Gui Hua Lian'ou - honeyed lotus root stuffed with sticky rice
Number 23 Cong You Ban Mian - scallion oil noodles
Number 25 Nuomi Cai Tou - fried clover pancakes
Number 26 Da Bing, Shao Bing - sesame breakfast pastries
Number 27 Ci Fan - sticky rice breakfast balls
Number 28 Gui Hua Gao - steamed osmanthus cake
Number 29 Zongzi - bamboo leaf wrapped sticky rice
Labels: food, Shanghai, street food, street life
