If you simply want to taste the food at the Shanghai World Expo Park, you will not be disappointed.

In short, over 100 food and beverage outlets are distributed among the Expo Park's five major sections. Tourists will be able to taste delicious foods from both China's various regions and from five different continents.

There are about 100,000 square meters of commercial facilities in the public area of the Expo Park, which will enable tourists to find a restaurant within five minutes. The minimum amount of expenditure per tourist is 10 yuan for various types of meals including Chinese and Western-style dinners, light meals and fast food. In addition, simple food items are available in convenience stores, bakeries and retail stores in the Expo Park.

The catering center on the western side of the Expo Axis in the Pudong Expo site is the largest catering area in the Expo Park, and consists of Chinese Food City, China's Eight Regional Cuisines, Restaurant Lane, and World Food sections that deserve the name "Food World Expo." The typical food of China's eight regional cuisines such as Braised Dongpo Pork, Chairman Mao's Red-Braised Pork, fish filets in hot chili oil and steamed buns with crab meat are all available there.

If you want to taste the most traditional Chinese snacks, you can visit the Chinese Food Street that offers Quanjude Roast Duck, baked cakes with donkey meat, Tai mushrooms from the Wutaishan Mountain, vegetable bibimbap from the Changbai Mountain area, Jiangxi red glutinous rice, Hubei catfish with perilla, Tibetan wild mushrooms, Ningxia eight-ingredient porridge, Qinghai's Niangpi, Hong Kong pineapple oil and Taiwanese beef noodles.

Each food and beverage operator on the street considers takes special pride in their dishes. The beef, ingredients and cooking equipment in the Lanzhou Beef Noodle Restaurant were all transported to Shanghai from Lanzhou. Tianjin Goubuli Steamed Buns has dispatched 20 chefs to the Expo Park to prepare dough, stir ingredients and produce the buns at the site.
 

Aside from the catering services provided by the organizers, many country participants also offer specialty foods. The meticulous German people have prepared Rhine sauerkraut with sauerbraten, Nürnberger Bratwürste, Bavarian schweinshaxe and other traditional German dishes. 20 tons of sauerkraut, 5 tons of red cabbage and even the equipment for an entire bar have been transported from Germany to the Expo Park.
Food and beverages in northern European countries is closely linked with the land, which is rich in forests and lakes. Tourists may try some Vodka after tasting delicious berries, mushrooms and fish in the Finnish Pavilion.

There are real Australian-flavored feasts in the Australian Pavilion with all the raw ingredients coming from Australia, such as its unique beef and fresh and tender abalone produced from Australia's pristine waters.

If you have time, you should visit the dreamlike "chocolate factory" in the Belgium Pavilion, where you can watch the chocolate-making process and then taste Belgian chocolates free-of-charge.

The African Restaurant, which has many famous African chefs, serves many types of African delicacies and beverages such as coffee from Ethiopia, "five-colored food" from Nigeria, wine from South Africa, Northern African couscous and "banana food" from Uganda.

The Columbian Pavilion plans to open a barbeque restaurant. It is said that someone who usually could not eat more than 0.05 kilograms of meat, once consumed more than 0.5 kilograms when tasting samples from the barbeque restaurant. Borscht soup is naturally available in the Ukrainian Pavilion and Moselle white wine will be promoted in the Luxembourg Pavilion.

Chefs from various countries will cook the classic foods of their respective countries in restaurants where you will have the precious opportunity to taste foods from around the world.