Set up in the spring of 1938.Mei Long Zhen Restaurant has a history of 60 years. Its present sit at the intersection of West Nanjing Road and Jiangning Road. Its name from the legend about the Ming dynasty emperor Zhengde visiting incognito the restaurant in Meilongzhen Town in a suburb of Shanghai. In old days it used to be a haunt of well-known personages from art and cultural circles, including the "Ten Shaoxing Opera Sisters." Who gave a dinner part and became sworn sisters there. Being a restaurant of national and international renown. It now draws Chinese and Foreigner alike. With it's Sichuan cuisine and Yangzhou pastries.
Skillfully designed and elegantly decorated by master architects the restaurant is located in a secluded spot. With a classic beauty as well as a rich national style. It boasts seven dining halls diverse in layout. Such as, Dragon-Phoenix. Gorgous-Plum-Flower, Hundred-Flower. Double Dragon Phoenix. Each hall is hung with a set of painted scrolls on the wall. While palace lanterns are suspended from the ceiling surrounded by exquisite frescos and relieves. Guests felt immensely refreshed as if having stepped into a magnificent palace with an imposing air of elegance simplicity and novelty. Since 1992 the Mei Long Zhen Restaurant has increase "Wo Long Yuan" Hall. It with a Chinese national and the west countries style. All the halls are air-conditioned, and one feels comfortably cool or warm in them. The whole restaurant has a seating capacity of 600.
Mei Long Zhen Restaurant initially specialized in Yangzhou cuisine, then switched to Sichuan cuisine. In recent years it has evolved a unique Shanghai-type Sichuan cuisine under the guidance of special-grade chefs Bao Guojin and Wu Taoxing both of them brilliant pupils of the superfine culinary master and veteran chef Shen Zifang. In other words, it has not only inherited the tradition of genuine Sichuan cuisine stressing the use of vinegar sugar, spice, spice, prickly ash and chilli, but made inno vations to suit the tastes of Shanghai-people, as a result it has once been extolled by the press as the "first-rate Sichuan-style restaurant Mei Long Zhen". Its food is characterized by quality ingredients, meticulous precessing, different flavors for different courses, it offers a wide spectrum of both traditional and Shanghai-style dishes, and they are all colorfu, savory, tasty, and pleasing to the eye.
In the last few years, with the implementation of China's policy of instituting reforms and opening to the outside world, the restaurant has been constantly improving its operating and management. In consequence,60-years-old Mei Long Zhen Restaurant is vibrant with youth ful energy, and has proved a great attraction to hosts of people by consistently pursuing the operational policy of "serving the customer as perfectly the operational policy of"serving the customer as perfectly as possible", it has at last evoked acclaim from varied estate in China, compatrots from national and international as well as foreign friends. The special most restaurant in China.