Laozhengxing Restaurant was founded in the first year of Tongzhi and has a history of 100 years. It is one of the most prestigious restaurants in Shanghai that operate the flavor of "Shanghai local cuisine". At present, it has a unique set of cooking skills and has become a unique brand-name enterprise operating authentic Shanghai cuisine, which enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. In Shanghai, a world-class international metropolis, food culture has a long history.
There are all kinds of cuisines, and Shanghainese refers to Shanghai local cuisine. If you want to ask which Shanghai local food is the most authentic, you should start with "Laozhengxing Restaurant". "Laozhengxing Hotel" is the earliest hotel that manages Shanghai local cuisine since Shanghai opened its port. Founded in the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1862), it has a history of 152 years. It is the originator of Shanghai local cuisine.
The development course of Zhengxing Hotel with a long history
Lao Zhengxing is located in the former mainland shopping mall (formerly known as Fodian) in Lane 350, Jiujiang Road, Shanghai. Its founders are sworn brothers Zhu Benben and Cai Renxing, who named the store Zhengxingge. Later, because of the good business, some hotels put up the signboard of "Zhengxing" under the pretext, and Zhu and Cai added the word "old" before the word "Zhengxing".
Since then, "Zhengxingge" has become "Laozhengxingge". At first, "Lao Zhengxing" mainly engaged in seafood dishes with hometown flavor. Bacon veneer, grass carp tofu, fried fish skin, sausage soup powder and rotten bowls are all standing dishes of Zhengxing Museum. At that time, Shanghai was rapidly developing into an important commercial port along the coast of the south of the Yangtze River, and Chinese and foreign merchants gathered.
Especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, more and more rich gentry, everyone and ordinary people flock to Shanghai, which greatly stimulates the economic development and, of course, the prosperity of Shanghai restaurants.