Food

While Chinese cuisine ranks as one of the best in the world, Shanghai cuisine ranks high in China. (Shanghai also leads the country in the catering business.) Highly expert chefs preside over the kitchens of Shanghai's famous restaurants, offering wonderful presentations of one or more of the eight celebrated styles of Chinese food: Beijing, Guangdong , Sichuan (Szechuan), Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Anhui, and Fujian. Of course, each style consists of several local dishes. For example, Zhejiang cuisine includes Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Shaoxing dishes, while Jiangsu cuisine includes Yangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, and Shanghai dishes. Also in Shanghai, there are a number of Western-style restaurants as well as vegetarian restaurants serving dishes cooked with vegetables and bean products only. These restaurants are what makes Shanghai cuisine so celebrated both at home and abroad.