A tournament of creating new Shanghai cuisine will be held in Shanghai to devise a menu for the visitors to Shanghai Expo, according to Shanghai Cuisine Association. It is expected that Shanghai snacks in the 2010 Expo will enjoy such worldwide fame as sushi, hotdog, and ice cream.

However, compared with the western counterparts, Shanghai snacks have much more complicated recipes and they must be eaten while they are hot. The latter poses great difficulty for storage as well as processing.

Moreover, the soy sauce-heavy Shanghai cuisine needs innovation to fit the modern taste.

The competition is divided into professional group and amateur group. Besides chefs from restaurants, citizens can participate via such websites as sohu.com as of today.