Fifteen Shanghai food stops, from local dishes to snack streets

A tiny old-Shanghai dining room or a more spacious mall branch, with rich, dark-sauced cooking at the centre.

An old house for crab dishes and autumn hairy crab, with different venues for the banquet and buffet.

Old-Shanghai shengjian with leavened dough, a pork filling and no soup flood, best with curry beef soup.

Crisp pork chops, soft rice cakes and sweet bean sauce — a snack best eaten hot.

Pork or crab-roe soup dumplings, opened carefully before sipping — and check that you have the intended branch.

Thin wrappers, crisp bases and plenty of hot broth — vent the dumpling before taking a bite.

Clam and liver noodles, pork-intestine noodles and scallion pork chop in a rich, old-lane setting.

Rich sesame-paste noodles with tofu-vermicelli soup, followed by a slower walk around Nanchang Road.

Fresh-meat mooncakes and cooked dishes downstairs, a full Shanghainese meal upstairs.

The pastry shop is on Huanghe Road, not at the hotel's main entrance, with separate choices of flavour, packaging and queues.

Tiaotou cake, double-filled rice balls and seasonal qingtuan — check what each window sells before queueing.

A food street beside West Nanjing Road, combining snacks, cafés and the surrounding shopping district.

From butterfly pastries to Shanghainese restaurants, a nostalgic food street brought back into view by Blossoms Shanghai.

Tangyuan, Haitang cake and scallion pancakes along an old canal street — an easy snack-led half-day.

Noodles and snacks by day, hotpot, grilling and small bars after dark — a full food-street walk.