City God Temple in Shanghai (Yu Yuan Garden in front), a higher concentration of snacks.

Snacks in Shanghai that is recorded when the Southern Song Dynasty, the early Ming Dynasty town of Shanghai to become South-East, the production is becoming attractive, when the Qing Shanghai with the growing commercial prosperity of the various types of response appropriate rice, flour varieties enriched snack category. End of the Qing Dynasty, as a foreign port after Shanghai, have learned the best snacks around, nearly all the major parts of the country characteristics, and to be developed and improved, form their own characteristics. Shanghai is characterized by a variety of snacks, both north and south flavor; tight finish, the production of fine; should be appropriate so section, changes over time; the supply of convenient and flexible.