Lao Ban Zhai(老半斋) is a time-honored brand in Shanghai. It was founded in the thirty-first year of Qing Emperor Guangxu (1905) in Shanghai. At first, it was a restaurant ran by several Yangzhou businessmen and its name was BanZhai General Assembly. Later, it was renamed Banzhai Restaurant. However, there was another restaurant named New Banzhai Restaurant. So the previous one was called Lao Ban Zhai Restaurant. It is an important part of Shanghai culture.
Lao Ban Zhai Restaurant mainly serves Huaiyang cuisine and its famous dishes are Salted Pork in Jelly, Boiled and Dried Bean Curd, White Sauce of Channel Catfish, Steamed Saury, Pork Balls with Crab Sauce and so on.
Lao Ban Zhai has been famous all over the country since 1920s. Because of its reputation of Huaiyang cuisine, the famous literati Lu Xun and Liu Yazi always gathered there to enjoy the dishes and talk about literature. As a result, many people who having pretensions to culture would also bring their family here to have dinner.
Although Lao Ban Zhai is still the taste of the past and situates in the old place, but the arrangement for three meals a day compared to the previous one has more features. In the morning, Lao Ban Zhai restaurant opened cooked noodles special room in the outer room which serves pickled vegetables, meat dishes, double mushroom, eel, shrimp and other kinds cooked noodles. The lunch of Lao Ban Zhai pays more attention to staple food, fast food, or a variety of Huaiyang style noodles that most people love. Those who come here to have dinner prefer to treat friends or banquet guests. The chamber is a little messy, waiter expertly packed on the table, under the table deftly vacate. Now in the side hall, there sets additional seasonal snack takeaway department.
Lao Ban Zhai noodle restaurant Pickled exclusive supply in Shanghai. Its soup is thick and the noodle is soft rather than paste, worthy of the saying that “a bowl of noodles to eat half a century” and it has won the Shanghai specialties noodle species. Lao Ban Zhai "Fried Chicken and Dried Bean Curd ", "Steamed Saury", " Braised Fish Head," " Braised Ham in Honey Sauce ", "Steamed Meatballs with Crab Meat", "Grilled Channel Catfish ", "Crab Dumplings," "Saury Sauce noodle "and so on, as well as won the Ministry of quality products, the" Salted Pork Jelly "," Banzhai Dried Chicken, "" Layer Cake, "" Radish cake "and so on all have deep impact at home and abroad.
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