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Babao hot sauce is a famous dish in Shanghai. It is bright, bright and spicy. It is improved from stir-fried chili sauce. Stir-fried chili sauce is a common home-cooked dish that used to be served at rice stalls. Because of its dark color and rich flavor, it is very suitable for rice. In the 1940s, the chefs of Tongheguan on Jiujiang Road followed the cooking method of the local Shanghai dish Family Portrait, and poured a shrimp hat on the fried spicy sauce. They also adjusted and enriched the raw materials of the fried spicy sauce, using eight main raw materials such as shrimp, chicken, duck gizzard, pork leg, belly, Kaiyang, mushrooms and bamboo shoots. (It can also be adjusted according to preference and season) so it is called Babao spicy sauce. Babao chili sauce is spicy, fresh and slightly sweet, very tasty and very popular among diners. Later, some restaurants in Shanghai followed suit, and Babao hot sauce became widely spread.