Ningbo Tangtuan Shop (Yu Garden)

宁波汤团店

Black sesame tangyuan, made in the Yu Garden bazaar since 1945

Hours

09:00–21:00 (Trip.com); another listing gives 08:30–21:30

Budget

New Year tangyuan ¥10 each

Address

Inside the Yuyuan Bazaar near the Zigzag Bridge, Huangpu (street number varies by source)

A tangyuan specialist founded in 1945, near the Zigzag Bridge in the Yuyuan Bazaar. Black sesame filling goes inside glutinous rice dough; once cooked, the skin turns translucent and the dark filling runs out when you bite. Shanghainese queue here before the Lantern Festival, and every Spring Festival the shop makes tangyuan shaped for that year's zodiac animal. Reviews are split between people who call it the real old taste and people who say it isn't what it used to be.