6 Shanghai dishes, 6 delicious ways to be lucky

Over the past 30 years, Shanghaining have had an ever-expanding variety of food choices, making the once-a-year family reunion dinners on Chinese New Year ever more tantalizing.

Even with the growing variety of food to choose from, when Spring Festival approaches, there are always several dishes on almost every Shanghainese family?s table. They not only represent Shanghai?s particular -- and delicious -- cooking style, but they also take on new meanings within the city itself.

Here are six of the traditional lucky dishes that have a special place in the heart of Shanghaining everywhere.

 read more

Zooey Deschanel Aaliyah Abbie Cornish Adriana Lima Adrianne Curry Adrianne Palicki