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A little preparation. A much better adventure.Independent travel advice · Made for China

A taste of Shanghai

Fu He Hui

福和慧

A vegetarian tasting-menu restaurant on Yuyuan Road run on Zen principles, where the austerity of the rooms is part of the argument. Set menus only, rotating with the season, built on local produce and on vegetarian recipes recovered from older Chinese cooking rather than on Western plant-based cuisine. The tea list is treated as seriously as a wine list elsewhere.

¥800–1200 per person≈ US$119Michelin 2 stars 2026Changning, 1037 Yuyuan Road

Why come here

A place worth making time for

Michelin two stars 2026 (Shanghai) for vegetarian cuisine.

The house favourites

What to order

Point at the Chinese. Staff will understand it even where the menu has no English at all.

  • Seasonal vegetarian set menu (时令素食套餐)
  • Historic recipes recreated vegetarian (古法素菜)
  • Tea pairing (茶配餐)

What it actually tastes like

Not plain food. Chinese vegetarian cooking leans hard on fermented bean pastes, pickles, mushrooms and gluten, so expect deep fermented funk and textures engineered to imitate meat. Mock-meat dishes made from wheat gluten are common, which rules it out if you avoid gluten. Tell them in advance about nut and soy issues; on a fixed menu built around soy, soy cannot be removed.

Allergens in this kitchen

soygluten/wheatsesametree nutspeanut

This is the kitchen, not one dish. Woks, fryers, blanching water and utensils are shared in almost every Chinese restaurant, so for a serious allergy treat the whole premises as the unit rather than ordering around it.