Uncover secrets of Michelin | Shanghai delicacy with "Shinho" magic

Shanghai as a “smelter” of delicacy has diversified cuisines with special flavor. The cuisines of Shanghai are mellow and delicious, telling historical and cultural stories. A bite of delicious Shanghai cuisine can bring memory of the city to your mind.

Shanghai delicacy in a flourishing scene of prosperity gathers delicious food of the whole world and local special cuisines. Every cuisine here not only gives you enjoyment of taste bud but also demonstrates cultural collision and integration.

As the only officially-designated condiment cooperator of Michelin Guide on mainland of China, Shinho witnessed the issue of 2025 Shanghai Michelin Guide on November 19th. In addition, Shinho explored more richly innovative delicacies.

Shanghai delicacy has characters of "Ala" Shanghai. From exquisite western cuisines of "Elder" to local cuisines in alleys, every cuisine with characterized flavor is telling legends of the city.

Shanghai delicacy like disposition of the city shows special charm of openness and inclusiveness. Absorbing the essence of different cuisines actively and seeking a perfect balance point between inheritance and innovation, it presents enthusiasm of the city in a particular mode.

Michelin Guide cooperates with Shinho again to jointly explore more possibilities of delicacy in this year. Depending on its own ingenuity of condiment and outstanding cooking skills, brilliant performance of delicacy cooking is presented to every enthusiast.

On the scene of Michelin Guide issue celebration, Shinho joined hands with Mr. Fu Yueliang, the chief cook of 2024 Hangzhou Michelin one-star restaurant Ru Yuan, to interpret Hangzhou Cuisine--"smoked black gold abalones with aroma of distillers grains, matched with sea urchin, hot green pepper and spot shrimp".

The whole dish shows its particular lingering charm after being cooked by ancient method of dried distillers grain. In addition, it interprets the gentle and tenacious style of Hangzhou Cuisine. It can be called a delicacy with combination of traditional and modern cooking skills. Black gold abalones which have fully absorbed aroma of distillers grains are integrated with fruit tree smoking to make them richly flavored. Mixing with spot shrimps soaked in secretly-made pickle sauce made of WEI DA MEI Hot & Sour Sauce and other ingredients, the compound fresh, sour, salt and spicy flavor is just right. When grilling them with hot green peppers, the delicacy and freshness doubles at once.

The particular fragrance of purple perilla mixes with the aroma of rice wine sauce; soft and waxy abalone and rice wine sauce with intense flavor complement each other. Besides, spot shrimps deeply pickled by WEI DA MEI Hot & Sour Sauce add to particular lingering charm of the whole dish.

During this delicacy innovation and development, Shinho condiments greatly sublimate food materials thanks to their exquisite craft and innovative flavor. Especially, WEI DA MEI Hot & Sour Sauce is added to make secretly-made sauce, which adds to infinite vitality and surprise of the delicacy art.

WEI DA MEI Hot & Sour Sauce is made of selected fresh chilis and vegetable. With gentle sour, the sauce is designed on the basis of people's taste threshold. Fresh, spicy, sour, salt and sweet flavor is coordinated to add flavor and give fresh and cool fragrance to dishes, meeting modern people's taste demand. WEI DA MEI is not only a creator of flavor but also a protector of delicacy dream. Every unforgettable delicacy comes from chefs' selection of food materials, ultimate pursuit of cooking skills and profound understanding of accurate condiments use. Shinho WEI DA MEI as the controller of "master's flavor" joins hands with young chefs to explore infinite possibilities of taste.

Shinho hopes to work together with more like-minded delicacy enthusiasts and catering practitioners to combine local cooking culture with innovative ideas, create distinct Chinese flavor and help Chinese delicacy win more honor and attract more attention in the world.