What is a Shanghai big wonton?
The difference between small and big wontons, how Shanghai's 大馄饨 compares with Cantonese wonton, Sichuan chaoshou and jiaozi, and how to eat one properly.
Shanghai fried pork chop & lajiangyou
How a breaded cutlet travelled from Vienna to Japan to Shanghai in 1843 — and why the city eats it with a thin, tart sauce that isn't soy sauce at all.
How to cook frozen wontons
Why Shanghai cooks add cold water three times, how long frozen wontons really need, and the four mistakes that split the skins.
Where to eat wontons in Shanghai
Two neighbourhoods the food lists skip — Sanlin in Pudong and Pujiang Town in Minhang — with metro directions, what to order and what to expect.
Míng Chéng 明诚大馄饨
A small family-run Shanghai wonton shop. Hand-wrapped whole-wheat big wontons in bone broth, simmered fresh every morning — plus one Shanghai fried pork chop.
Sanlin — No. 1123 Haiyang Road, Pudong · 7:00–21:00
Pujiang — B1, Lane 1850 Jiangyue Road, Minhang · 8:00–21:00