滬菜

Pronunciation
English Name

Shanghai cuisine

Cantonese (Traditional)

滬菜

Simplified Chinese

沪菜

Mandarin (Pinyin)

hù cài


Yale Romanization

wuh choi

Character Breakdown

is another name for Shanghai (short for 滬江), and is vegetable or dish or cuisine, so 滬菜 is Shanghai cuisine or Hu cuisine.

Shanghai cuisine
About This Dish

Shanghai cuisine, also known as Hu cuisine, overlaps with neighboring cuisines in the Jiangnan region (known as The Land of Fish and Rice), including Jiangsu cuisine and Zhejiang cuisine.

Books

Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China by Fuschia Dunlop, and My Shanghai by Betty Liu cover the cuisine of Jiagnan, the region surrounding Shanghai.

Graphics Credit

TUBS, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.svg)

Quick Facts
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滬菜
Yale:
wuh choi