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What food best represents Shanghai? Why?
Shanghai is a gathering place for all kinds of famous snacks. Its taste is not only different from the pure sweetness in Guangdong and Hong Kong, but also different from the spicy taste in Sichuan and Chongqing. On the contrary, it is famous for being light, delicious and delicious. There are many kinds of snacks in Shanghai, such as steamed, boiled, fried and baked. The most popular snacks are: glutinous rice balls, venetian blinds, and essential oil noodles. These are the most popular "three main parts". Shanghai's famous local cuisines include sweet-scented osmanthus, sweet lotus root, pigeon eggs glutinous dumplings, golden melon, pickled melon, pigeon lobster slices, Songjiang four-gill bass, Shao Wansheng's southern flavor food and so on.

Shanghai pear toffee:

Shanghai pear toffee is an old-fashioned product in China and one of the famous specialties in Shanghai. Pear cream sugar is made of pure white sugar (excluding maltose, essence and pigment) and four kinds of domestic fine medicinal materials (such as almond, Fritillaria cirrhosa, Pinellia tuber and Poria) 14. It tastes as sweet as honey, loose and crisp, not greasy and sticky, fragrant and delicious, neat in blocks, beautiful in packaging, excellent in quality and remarkable in curative effect.

Pear paste sugar is made from Sydney or Pak Lei and Chinese herbal medicine as main raw materials, and crystal sugar, orange powder and lemon powder are added. Mainly used for treating cough with excessive phlegm, tracheitis, asthma, etc. Sweet taste, convenient administration and remarkable curative effect.

Its formula is characterized by helping the human body to enhance its resistance to various cough causes that cause colds and coughs through proper nourishment, and patients are afraid of suffering when taking the medicine. In view of heat, cold fatigue, body imbalance, dry cough, wet cough, etc., it is made by reasonably mixing various herbs and adding honey, maltose, sugar and pear juice. Because the selected Chinese herbal medicines are mild and have no side effects, they are suitable for all kinds of people with cough.