Today is Chinese Qingming Festival (Qīngmíng Jié清明节). Different places have different foods for Qingming Festival. In my hometown Shanghai, we eat green rice balls during Qingming Festival. People mix the brome-grass juice with glutinous rice flour and make them into balls with sweetened bean paste and jujube paste as stuffing. Then, the balls are placed on reed leaves and steamed in steamers. The cooked balls are green and fragrant. It is the most seasonable food for Qingming Festival in Shanghai.
Best Qingtuan in Shanghai
NO.1. Wang Jia Sha
This 60-year-old restaurant has all the traditional flavors and is also experimenting with new ones, now offering about 10 different stuffings, including vegetable stuffing, the pork and egg yolk stuffing and pork floss.The qingtuans dished out here are usually still warm and some even have a few pieces of grass at the bottom, just like Shanghaining remember from when they were growing up.
Address: Wang Jia Sha, 805 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Shimen Yi Lu
+86 21 6253 0404 No.2. Cang Lang Ting
Cang Lang Ting, known for its Suzhou cuisine, only serve traditional red bean paste flavored qingtuan, Suzhou cuisine is famous for its sweet flavors, sometimes getting a bit too much even for the legendary sweet tooth of shanghainese. But, when it comes to the qingtuan, sweet is all you need.
Address: Cang Lang Ting, 363 Tianyao Qiao Lu, Xietu Lu +86 21 6426 3350
No.3 Gong De Lin
Gong De Lin offers three different qingtuan stuffings: taro (a perfect balance of the sweet root and the savory wormwood juice), the traditional red bean paste and sugar-free red bean paste, for those watching their waistlines.
Address: Gong De Lin, 445 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Qingqing Bei Lu
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