{"id":13123,"date":"2018-02-20T00:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T08:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=13123"},"modified":"2018-02-20T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T16:55:42","slug":"chinese-regional-cuisine-jiangnan-style-fine-dining-zy-shanghai-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/chinese-regional-cuisine-jiangnan-style-fine-dining-zy-shanghai-cuisine\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese regional cuisine: “Jiangnan” style fine dining at Z&Y Shanghai Cuisine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked\u00a0Z&Y Shanghai Restaurant<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0for catching up with my lovely friend Jane.\u00a0 The restaurant is located in the shopping\/dining complex, Central at Garden City. The area has been filled with new restaurants.<\/p>\n

This latest Shanghai \/ Jiangnan\u00a0style eatery has a sister restaurant that was opened not too long ago on No.3 Road. Both restaurants cater\u00a0to the Chinese fine-dining clientele. Even the dinnerware here is branded with their Chinese logo, which is also their name in Chinese, “Yuan”.\u00a0 However, while ‘Yuan’ is the English name of the first location, and I have no idea why they have named the new location ‘Z&Y’ since both locations have the same name in Chinese.\u00a0 It’s confusing.<\/p>\n

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Z&Y Shanghai Cuisine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The main dining area was spacious with high ceilings. Through the glass, we could see the part of the kitchen for making and steaming different types of bao, including everyone’s favorite, the Xiaolongbao (soup dumpling).<\/p>\n

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Z&Y Shanghai Cuisine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our greeting waitress seemed to be in a bad mood or something. I gave her a smile while asking her some questions, but I got nothing,\u00a0 like zero reactions from her extremely serious face. Both Jane and I were feeling very awkward for a moment.<\/p>\n

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Z&Y Shanghai Cuisine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We picked 3 dishes, all very popular dishes among Shanghai \/Jiangnan restaurants. The flavours of Jiangnan cuisine, like Cantonese, tend to focus on the freshness of ingredients without using bold spices. Salt, oil, and wine are the common levitra no prescription <\/a> ingredients in most of the marinades and seasonings. The folks from the region are proud of their superb dry-cured ham, which is like how Italians love their prosciutto. And we would find the ham in a lot of dishes here, including the famous ham and bamboo shoot soup, and the pan-fried\u00a0noodle dish that we were about to have.<\/p>\n

The dishes we tried were:<\/p>\n