Guangmingcun Restaurant (Huaihai Middle Road)

Every dish in this restaurant is delicious, rich in oil and sauce. ​PS: You have to queue for dinner at noon. They don't accept late guests, so it's not easy to eat. You can also queue for a butterfly puff pastry at the "Harbin Food Factory" opposite.

Guangming Village Hotel not only has a good dine-in business, but there are also long queues every day at the takeout window downstairs. There are two windows for cooked food and snacks. Most of them are sold out on the same day of production, so the food is still quite fresh.

Passing Huaihai Road, I always go to Guangming Village Hotel to buy some fresh meat mooncakes to take home, although I have to queue for a while. However, five baking ovens are baking at the same time, which is very fast. The chef makes them on the spot, and you can eat fresh mooncakes just out of the oven.

What impressed me most on Huaihai Road was the long queue at the entrance of Guangming Village. Is the food so delicious? The old men and women will tell you that this old shop uses fine ingredients and you can eat with confidence. After all, the food should be good, so it doesn’t matter how long the queue is, as retired people have plenty of time. Recommended dishes include crab meat dumplings, pan-fried dumplings, chicken sauce wontons, marinated duck, fried eel paste, shrimp, smoked fish, fried shrimp, small yellow croaker, spring rolls, sweet and sour pork ribs, red bean paste dumplings, wine and vanilla bean dumplings, braised pork, green rice dumplings, squirrel fish, eight-treasure duck, fried pork chops, grilled fish, etc. that are worth trying!

If you want to eat authentic local dishes and dim sum, the best place to go is Guangming Village Hotel Huaihai Middle Road Main Branch. The queue is really long. Recommended dishes include crab meat dumplings, pan-fried dumplings, chicken sauce wontons, marinated duck, fried eel shreds, shrimp, smoked fish, fried shrimp, small yellow croaker, spring rolls, sweet and sour pork ribs, red bean paste dumplings, wine and vanilla bean curd, braised pork, green rice dumplings, squirrel fish, eight-treasure duck, fried pork chops, grilled fish, etc. that are worth trying!

A very famous old Shanghai brand. Now is the peak season for fresh meat mooncakes. You can tell how delicious their mooncakes are by looking at the endless queues of people at the door. At RMB 4.50 each, they are absolutely super delicious with good value for money. There are also a lot of people ordering dishes and dim sum on the second floor. You have to queue up if you go there at one or two o'clock in the afternoon. I recommend the Four Happiness Roasted Gluten and Braised Duck. The spicy meat noodles are also very good.

My good mother-in-law lined up again and again to buy me fresh meat mooncakes from Guangming Village~ It happened that I had to do a glucose tolerance test that day. My mother-in-law was afraid that I would be hungry after being fasting for so long in the hospital, so she bought two boxes the day before. In the end, I didn’t pass the glucose tolerance test, and the first meal exceeded 0.19. Alas... But after two hours, I ate two fresh meat mooncakes while waiting for the report. It’s really worth it! In the next few days, I didn’t care about blood sugar. I turned the microwave in the morning. It tasted better. I like it! Seeing that I like it so much, my mother-in-law said she would buy me three boxes. I said no, I have to restrain myself, and I’ll talk about it after I give birth...

Food is like people. Some people are stunning at first sight, while some people are completely unrecognizable at first sight, but the more you get to know them, the more interesting it becomes, and then you think everything about them is good. Guangming Village is like the latter to me, an outsider. There is really nothing in Guangming Village that is impressive just by appearance. But almost every one of them is unforgettable. Fresh meat mooncakes | Definitely their signature dish. Queuing definitely doesn't just happen during the Mooncake Festival, but every day. Guangming Village’s mooncakes are different from most of the well-known fresh meat mooncakes in Shanghai. Other people’s mooncake skin is crispy, but his is crispy and glutinous. It's crispy when you bite it, and very soft when you put it in your mouth. On the contrary, the meat filling is full and firm, with a chewy texture. There is a reason for queuing every day. Chicken wontons | The size of wontons is between large wontons and small wontons. The soup is really chicken juice, very fresh and fragrant. Marinated Vegetarian Chicken | Unlike most stores that serve large pieces of vegetarian chicken, the vegetarian chicken here can be described as a large piece. So it is different from those completely spongy vegetarian chickens, the one here has "meat". There is a layer of honeycomb skin with white tofu meat inside, which tastes even better. I don't have the same feelings towards Guangming Village as many Shanghai people do. But every time, I am still willing to accept the slightly longer queue, the only service of collecting bowls and maintaining order in the queue, etc., but I still always love its content which always outweighs the form.