Shanghai - Food Review

I think we're forcing ourselves a little to make our Shanghai review complete by talking about the food.

Stuff going into Hotpot at 豆捞

I'm not a foodie. Yakki's only slightly more into food than me and his palate is only responsive to all things bread-y than Shanghainese.

Thankfully, we had our food-wine guru Xiao Long Bao with us.

Xiao Long Bao shortlisted the eateries and restaurants for us and 滴水洞饭店 was my favourite with its famed pork ribs cooked in some spicy way.

The most exotic thing we had in Shanghai was the snake soup at 保罗酒楼 which was shark's fin soup without shark's fin, but with snake meat. Very 补. Makes your snake roar, you know what I mean.

Not the snakes we ate. Some little edible frogs Yakki saw.

And we all agreed that the most memorable dish we had was the Foie Gras in Chinese Broth at Jade on 36 at Shangri-La.

A pity we didn't take a good photo of it because Yakki's fingers were constantly covered with bread crumbs.

Aside from the amazing breads, lamb and the foie gras, the rest of the food at Jade on 36 was, well, disappointing for its exorbitant prices (we paid approx. 200 sgd each, excluding the wine, which by the way sucked to the tuck). We consoled ourselves by reminding one another that we were paying for the fantastic Bund view (again, no photos as Yakki went into hibernation mode past 10pm).

Overall food experience in Shanghai. So so for me, Yakki had his bread craving satisfied at Jade on 36, while Xiao Long Bao had all the jian baos he'd been wanting.