Be a Shanghainese for a Day
Set off from your hotel with a local guide, shop for seasonal ingredients at a local market, then visit a Shanghai home to learn authentic home-style cooking with a professional chef.
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This route focuses on the everyday lifestyle of a Shanghai household. Depart from your hotel by comfortable business vehicle and head to one of Shanghai’s most popular local markets. With your guide, stroll through the market as you see colourful seasonal vegetables, smell the aroma of freshly baked pastries, and hear the friendly greetings between stallholders and regular customers. You will have the chance to choose several ingredients you like in preparation for the home-style meal to follow.
With the fresh ingredients you have bought, visit a local resident’s home. In the host’s kitchen, a professional chef will be waiting to teach you, step by step, how to make one or two home-style dishes commonly found on a Shanghai family table. It might be a bowl of rich soy-braised pork belly, a plate of fresh, crisp braised bamboo shoots, or the spring onion oil noodles Shanghainese people never forget. The chef will guide you, while the host shares the family memories behind each dish.
After the cooking lesson, everyone sits around the table like a family to enjoy the dishes you have made with your own hands, chatting as you eat. From buying ingredients to sitting down to hot home-style food, spend a day as a true Shanghainese. After the meal, your guide will take you back to your hotel.