Lao Zheng Xing

Lao Zhengxing is my favorite restaurant. The sauce is now available in small portions, which is good. The hairy crab is also delicious 😋, and the waiter's attitude is also very good 👍. In short, it is one of the restaurants I must eat when I return to Shanghai. It has one Michelin star.

It's an old restaurant, and the taste is always stable. [Taste] |Special fried shrimp^You can try it, Shanghai specialty, slightly sweet taste, and the shrimp is quite fresh. |Eight treasures spicy sauce^Must try, not spicy, the ingredients are sufficient. |Crab roe and yam rice cake^The taste is also good, the crab roe is rich, and the rice cake tastes good. [Service] The service attitude of the restaurant staff is quite good.

An old restaurant in Shanghai, the signature dishes are rich in oil and sauce, and taste very good, suitable for the taste of people like us in the Jiangnan area. The price is half, the portion is half, and there are not many varieties on the menu, but fortunately the taste is okay!

Everyone likes flavorful dishes, especially when the word "old" is added to the plaque. This word alone can attract a large number of people. Although many restaurants are just in name only, they are considered old brands if they have been open for a few years, and even more so if they have been open for more than ten or twenty years. However, Zhengxing Restaurant is the restaurant that truly deserves the word "old". The old Zhengxing Restaurant was founded in the first year of the Tongzhi reign. It has a history of more than a hundred years. It is one of the most famous restaurants in Shanghai that serves "Shanghai local cuisine". I deliberately put the food I like in the front. I can't remember the name of the dish, but I only remember the delicious beef. The reason for liking it is very simple. I like it because it is beef. I don't need a reason to like this dish. Sweet and sour has always been the taste that hits my heart. The braised spareribs are covered with sweet and sour sauce, and the meat is not sticky, which suits my taste very well. Before arriving in Shanghai, I specifically asked my friends in Shanghai what the taste of Shanghai cuisine is like. My friends told me, "One word - sweet, two words - very sweet, three words - very sweet, that kind of sweetness is sweeter than the sweetness of ordinary cakes." I don't believe it. It's hard for me to imagine a taste sweeter than the sweetness in my memory. However, I finally had the opportunity to taste it in Lao Zhengxing. It turns out that it really tastes sweeter than sugar. Fortunately, I love sweets, so I like it more and more. Hairy crab rice cake, starting with the side dish rice cake, rice cake is also one of my favorite foods. The rice cake and hairy crab are fried just right, the rice cake is not out of shape, and the hairy crab is still tasty. The hot rice cake is chewy. It may be the breeding season of hairy crabs. Every crab is full of crab roe in its stomach, wrapped in sauce, and very tasty. This unidentified object that looks like a lump is actually eight-treasure duck. The original taste of duck meat has been removed, so it is difficult to tell what kind of meat it is when eating. The duck is covered with a layer of black glutinous rice and cashews. Eating the duck together with the glutinous rice increases the stickiness of the taste. In addition, the duck is cooked very thoroughly, and the whole duck can be broken apart with chopsticks. Compared with the glutinous rice dumplings in other places, the meat filling of the pan-fried buns is very moist, and it can be regarded as a soup dumpling.

Founded in 1862, Lao Zhengxing is the oldest Shanghainese restaurant and the best choice for tasting authentic Shanghainese cuisine. It moved to No. 556 Fuzhou Road (near Zhejiang Middle Road) in 1997. It is close to Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, People's Square, and the Bund, and diagonally opposite Shanghai Book City. Exit 14 of People's Square Station on Metro Lines 1, 2, and 8, and walk about 300 meters along Fuzhou Road to arrive. According to previous experience, I thought that if I went early, there should be a seat in the hall! I arrived at 11 o'clock in the morning, but it was already full. It seems that since it was rated as the No. 1 restaurant in Shanghai, the business has been much more popular than before. I waited for more than an hour before I got a seat. While waiting, I found that the reservation phone kept coming in, so if you want to eat, it is best to make a reservation in advance! The restaurant service is not enthusiastic, but the water and plate changes are relatively timely. Due to the large number of guests, the table is crowded, and it is noisy inside, and the dining environment is not ideal. Most of the people eating in the hall are old Shanghainese. There are many elderly uncles and aunts who come with them. The two of them ordered a few small dishes, savored them carefully, and took care of each other. It felt very warm. We ordered sweet and sour inch golden bones, grass head circles, fried shrimp, stir-fried eel paste, thick soup with scallops and mustard greens, and shepherd's purse wontons. Sweet and sour inch golden bones are sweet and sour spare ribs, a local specialty. The middle section of the spare ribs is used. It is very chewy. The sweetness of the spare ribs is just right and it is also more flavorful, but the meat is slightly hard. Fried shrimp is basically available on every table and is one of the dishes with a high order rate. The shrimp is handled very cleanly, claiming to be out of the pot in 7 seconds to lock the moisture of the shrimp to ensure the freshness of the shrimp. After tasting it, the fried meat is indeed very tender, but the only drawback is that the shrimp shell is not crispy enough. The stir-fried eel paste is thick and red in sauce. It is poured with scallion oil and a little pepper when it is served. It looks oily, but it is not greasy. It is moderately sweet and salty. The eel shreds have no fishy smell, and the meat is tender and elastic. It tastes very good. I like it! The grass head circle is also one of the signature dishes. It is said that the circle only uses the middle three sections of the large intestine. It is fat but not greasy, crispy and chewy. The grass head is a little old. The thick soup with scallops and mustard greens is unexpectedly satisfying. The soup with scallops is very delicious, and the mustard greens are cooked soft. When you bite it, the freshness of seafood is accompanied by the fragrance of mustard greens, which is very satisfying! Shepherd's purse wontons can be fried dry or eaten with soup. We ordered the soup. The wonton skin is thin and the filling is large. The soup is a very light soy sauce soup, delicious!

I live on Zhejiang Road, very close to this restaurant, so I decided to give it a try. A typical old-brand restaurant, serving Shanghainese cuisine. The store is not big, but the lobby is on the second floor. The lobby is very large and the environment is very comfortable. It is considered a bit classy among old-brand restaurants. There are not many people, and about a quarter of the tables are occupied. I ordered grass head circles, drunken chicken, fried shrimp, and jujube paste cakes, etc. The first few are special dishes and have won awards. The dishes were not served quickly and the quantity was small. The drunken chicken was particularly refreshing, with a light taste of rice wine, a slight sweetness of wine and the deliciousness of chicken. The highlight was the grass head circles, which is the large intestine. There were 5-6 thick large intestines, placed on the green vegetables at the bottom of the plate. When you eat one, it is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and delicious. This is the signature dish of Lao Zhengxing. Of course, it varies from person to person. Girls will find it a bit greasy when eating it. Just try it, and it is also expensive, 68.

Lao Zhengxing is a century-old restaurant in Shanghai. My grandparents have been bringing us here. I know all the dishes by heart. When I was studying in the UK, I would go there every time I came back to eat fried shrimp and smoked fish. Over the years, this restaurant has even been rated as a Michelin one-star restaurant. The average cost per person is just over 100 yuan, which is really cheap.