Gong De Lin

Gong De Lin is the leading restaurant for "veggie food in the shape of meat dishes". The dishes are carefully selected, meticulously prepared and artistically presented. A variety of tasty and nutritional choices are goof foe health in all seasons. Gong De Lin's vegetarian buns and noodles are popular with diners. The vegetarian moon cakes have won the award "China’s best moon cake" and "famous Chinese pastry".

Specialty: vegetarian bun. Moon cake

Address: 445 Nanjing Road (W.)

Tel: 021-63270218

Transportation: Metro Line 2 (Nanjing Road (W) Station), Bus 20, 37, 112

Wu Fang Zhai Dim-sum Restaurant

Wu Fang Zhai Dim-sum Restaurant was established in 1958. The pastries are made with five recipe-made natural herbal fillings, namely, rose, osmanthus, pine, lotus (or mint), hence the name "Wu Fang Zhai" (literally "five fragrance restaurant"). They are varied in seasons such as glutinous rice ball with red bean paste in Pure Brightness Festival, pyramid shaped sticky rice dumpling in bamboo leaves, Double-Nine cake at the festival, eight treasure rice and sweet rice cake in Spring Festival. The "three sweetness", namely sweet taro, sweet potato and sweet rice-filled lotus roots are most sought-after in decades.

Specialty: glutinous rice dumpling in bamboo leaves, pastries and cakes

Address: 938 Pubei Road

Tel: 021-54198439

Transportation: Bus 43, 830

(Source: china.org.cn)

Editor: Feng Hui