Hall Wedding: Delicious Shanghainese Cuisine Fit for a Bride

In the Yangtze valley, it's traditional for a mother to make xi rice for her bride-to-be daughter on the eve of her wedding. It's a bibimbap-like soy sauce rice cooked with many types of vegetables and meats. This lanehouse restaurant has taken the ancient tradition to a whole new level. Like its name, this funny-looking restaurant is filled with plastic chandeliers, red lanterns, fake pink roses and LED Christmas lights. There are only two types of dishes on the menu: stone pot rice (RMB15-38) and chicken soup (RMB12), and both are delicious. Ignore the text-heavy menu and just ask for peigen danjiao jiangyou fan (RMB18, 培根蛋饺酱油饭) and add shrimp (RMB5)—you can't go wrong with dark soy sauce rice covered with bacon, egg dumplings and tasty vegetables.

DETAILS

What: Hall Wedding 喜锅饭

Where: No. 27, Lane 358 Huaihai Zhong Lu 淮海中路358弄尚贤坊27号

Tel: 5306-6027