Best Shanghai restaurant

Shanghai has several culinary institutions every hotel concierge knows. Enjoy some sensational dining experience at sometimes expensive Shanghai restaurants, but the food, the ambience and especially the view, usually over the Huangpu River justify the price.

You can find superb Shanghai restaurants serving Cantonese, fabulous Szechwan cuisine in a great atmosphere. Taste deep-fried eel with sweet & sour sauce, Shanghai style "Eight Treasures Duck", Sautéed fish fillet with pepper & leek, Sichuan style Tofu, Sichuan style dan-dan noodle and Meat dumplings with spicy Sichuan sauce.

Some Shanghai restaurants are serving classical Cantonese dishes, even if that means a lot of preparations. The focus is on seafood but there are also some excellent chicken specialties.

There are Shanghai restaurants with an elegant and romantic atmosphere, dim sum in Shark’s fin and Bird's nest specialties. At Shanghai restaurants in the upper price categories you can be sure they use top quality ingredients.

Try Shanghai abalone roast chicken, roast duck and other fabulous food and enjoy a great views over Shanghai Harbor and Shanghai’s skyline.

Enjoy your Peking duck in a fashionable Shanghai restaurant, spiced chicken, smoked tea duck, Beggar's chicken, Shark's fin soup, Peking style deep fried mutton and plenty of other delicacies. After you are through visit one of the great Shanghai Nightclubs, you wont regret Shanghai Nightlife, it’s the real stuff, but keep in mind take some money with you or make sure the credit card wont bounce, Shanghai Restaurant and Nightlife is no cheap stuff.

in Chongqing, last week gave China Central TV tapes of a film shot in June of seven women eating a largely Japanese-style feast off the body of a 21-year-old man with a banana leaf over his private parts, said magazine editor-in-chief Wang Ji.

The CCTV news channel ran ''a few seconds'' of the broadcast, Wang said. Local media and the popular Chinese news portal Sina.com have since followed up with their own stories, some with photos of the meal.

Wang said New Female organized the private meal after noting the popular outrage over the use of two female university students at the upscale Japanese Hefeng Village Huaishi Cuisine restaurant complex in Kunming, also a city in southwestern China.

Serving food on a man has raised a storm of new criticism, much of it expressed online after Chongqing residents learned of the event last year, Wang said.

''I remember one comment, saying this is OK for women, but not for men. As you know, traditionally men's position in society is above that of women,'' said Wang, who is a man. ''But this (meal) is a kind of criticism. You don't want to insult the women.''

Senior staff members at the Hefeng Village  say they stopped serving sushi on naked women after the story came to light. The restaurant said it sold meals on women, who were decorated with shells and stones, in keeping with a Japanese culinary tradition

Meals there would cost about 1,000 yuan ($124).

Unlike the restaurant in Kunming, New Female did not sell tickets to the meal or involve the public in any way, Wang said. He said the man involved was chosen from 43 male models who tried out for the volunteer job. The film cost about 4,000 yuan.

The female diners, who were watched by more than 10 magazine staff members, it took about 40 minutes to relax with the man, nicknamed