Taoyuan Village, Shanghai

This was our first meal in Shanghai, and boy, was it a great introduction. Exhausted after a long flight, we wandered into this place and liked what the people inside were eating.

I thought that the decor was really stunning, open, modern and creative.

We placed the order and paid at the counter, within minutes the food was delivered to the table by a waiter.

The menu was in Chinese and the person at the counter did not speak any English, but she did find one English version.

This was our delicious dinner. My husband ordered the soy milk, a house specialty. The restaurant serves the soy milk either sweet or salty. The latter, comes with soft tofu floating in it.

I have to say, everything we ate at the Taoyuan Village was really excellent. I had the rice roll with bacon, egg, green onion, pickled radish and mustard root. It looked like a burrito and tasted like heaven.

I am not a fan of steamed buns but my husband enjoyed this one, it had meat inside.

This was by far one of the most memorable sandwiches I have had in many, many years. It was fried flounder with tomato, pickled radish and onions, served on a delicious flaky flatbread (shaobing), which had a light phyllo dough - like texture. The variety of flavors and the freshness of the fish helped to create a terrific combination.

I loved this sandwich so much that ran to get it again, this time as we were leaving Shanghai.
One thing that we did not try but saw everyone at the restaurant eat, was the Youtiao - Chinese fried dough, Chinese cruller. I saw that most people were dunking them into their soy milk.

Taoyuan Village
a few locations in Shanghai

Open from 7am - 2:30am

Joanna

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