Mapo Doufu is a popular dish from the Sichuan spicy cuisine. The main material is doufu (or tofu, bean curd) and minced meat. The dish has a combination of the fresh tender doufu texture and hot spicy red chilli sauce, making it characteristic in Sichuan dishes. It matches well with the plain steamed rice. 

Chinese New Year is the time for family get-together and celebration. For Chinese, a celebration cannot be completed without foods. Families start to prepare foods one month before the Spring Festival, or even earlier. Besides dried sea foods, salted ducks, cured meat, pork preserved in soy sauce is also a popular dish. Shanghai cuisine is known for its soy sauce and sugar taste.

Chinese are big into eating. The Spring Festival is especially so when families meet, chat and dine out.
You will be amazed how popular restaurants can be, fully booked with long queues outside. The foods shopping malls are crowded with heads. Shanghai offers such a variety of food options from the very authentic Shanghai dishes to popular Sichuan foods, from mutton hotpot to Cantonese tea house. Not a big fan of Chinese foods? You will not be starved as there are restaurants with cuisines from all over the world.