Hangzhou is often jokingly called a food basin by outsiders. Whether it's binjiang garbage street or Wushan night market next to Hefang Street, those cookie-cutter flavors are always hard to cheer up.
But each city has its own unique taste, and the same is true for Hangzhou.
Hangzhou not only has the world-famous West Lake scenery, but also the Hangzhou gang dishes that make people linger.
Belonging to the eight major cuisines in China, Hangzhou cuisine is known for its "refreshing and chic", focusing on the selection of fresh ingredients and preserving the original taste of ingredients.
01. West Lake vinegar fish
When it comes to Hangzhou cuisine, it is impossible not to mention the famous West Lake vinegar fish.
It is to raise grass carp hungry for a day or two to remove the earthy taste, cooking only takes three or four minutes to cook the fish to cook just right, and finally pour a layer of smooth oily sweet and sour to eat, the meat is tender, sweet and sour.
Recommended restaurant: Philharre Restaurant
02. Dongpo meat
Legend has it that Su Dongpo is a person who knows how to eat, and he instructed his family to cook the meat pieces red and crispy and give them back to the people of the dredged West Lake, which is the origin of "Dongpo meat".
A piece of square-shaped pork, fat and lean, red and bright in color with wine aroma, fat but not greasy in the mouth.
Recommended restaurants: Louwailou, ZhiweiGuanweizhuang
03. Longjing shrimp
Longjing is a famous tea in The West Lake, and the Longjing shrimp cooked with Longjing tea is a must in Hangzhou cuisine.
Fresh river shrimp with Longjing new tea, shrimp jade white, tender, after eating clear appetizer, endless aftertaste.
Recommended restaurant: Hangzhou Restaurant
04. Song sister-in-law fish soup
Song sister-in-law fish soup is a famous dish passed down from the Southern Song Dynasty, which has a history of more than 800 years.
It is the mandarin fish or sea bass steamed, the meat is chopped, and the stewed soup is added, and the fish is very tender to eat.
Recommended restaurant: ZhiweiGuanweizhuang
05. West Lake lettuce soup
Lettuce is a precious aquatic plant that is said to grow only in Taihu, Xianghu and West Lakes. It tastes mellow and fragrant, and the smooth texture of lettuce is also very unique.
Recommended restaurants: Outside the building
06. Zhiwei Xiaolong
Zhiwei Xiaolong usually uses fermented white flour as the skin, fresh meat, or fresh meat mixed with shrimp, or chicken mixed with minced ham as the filling, and the special meat skin jelly is added to the filling, and then steamed over a high heat. The bun juice is fragrant and fresh, the skin is thin and smooth, and the taste is different.
Recommended restaurant: Zhiweiguan
07. Katakogawa
Hangzhou people have a saying: "If you don't eat a piece of Rice River in Hangzhou, it is equivalent to not having been to Hangzhou."
Kataerchuan is a famous soup noodle in Hangzhou, which is a topping made of snow vegetables, bamboo shoot slices and shredded meat, and the aftertaste is endless.
Recommended restaurants: Kui Yuan Guan, Ju Ying Noodle Restaurant, Hui Juan Noodle Restaurant
08. Shrimp pop-up eel noodles
When cooking shrimp fried eel noodles, use fresh yellow eel, cut into eel slices and fry in vegetable oil, fry in meat oil, and pour sesame oil until the eel slices are yellow and crispy. Large river shrimp with egg white sizing and sauté until tender. After the noodles are cooked in the pot, the noodles are cooked in the original juice, and the juice is thick and fresh.
Recommended restaurants: Kuiyuan restaurant, A-liang noodle restaurant
09. Old duck stew
Eating old duck pot in Hangzhou, Zhang Shengji is preferred, and the second is the flower room.
Zhang Shengji's dried bamboo shoots old duck pot, dried bamboo shoots tender, ham fragrant, soup is very fresh, duck crisp, very recommended. And the ham duck pot in the flower room, the use of materials is exquisite, after eating can use the soup of the old duck pot, the duck soup fishing noodles are very good.
Recommended restaurants: Huafang, Zhang Shengji
1. Long-established Hangzhou cuisine restaurant
01. KuiyuanKan
It is a century-old shop founded in 1867.
When it comes to shrimp pop eel noodles, the noodle shop that comes to mind is a must-order signature dish for diners, and Katakawa is also the first of his family. Crab yellow shark fin noodles and golden jade noodles, which are launched in season, are also deeply loved by diners.
02. Zhiwei Guan Wei Zhuang
In addition to tasting Hangzhou's classic dishes Dongpo meat, West Lake vinegar fish, Song Sister-in-law fish soup, etc., you can also taste the lotus crisp that has been "Tip of the Tongue 3".
03. Building outside the building
Louwailou is a famous restaurant at home and abroad, most of the famous dishes in Hangzhou come from his home, and the gathering of famous chefs also makes its dishes come out, and many people who come to Hangzhou will come to hangzhou.
It is highly recommended for Dongpo meat, West Lake vinegar fish, and Longjing shrimp.
04. Drunken White Building
The dishes of the Drunken White Building are all Hangzhou dishes, the most popular are drunken flower snails and warm crabs. The amount of snails is sufficient, and the ones are very fat, the warm crab juice is enough to taste, and the crab is fat and the meat is firm.
05. Mountains outside the mountains
As a long-established restaurant in Hangzhou, Shanwai Mountain is also famous, hidden in the Hangzhou Botanical Garden, and there are attractions nearby for people to play. It is highly recommended here that the Eight Treasure Fish Head Soup, the West Lake Vinegar Fish, and the Glutinous Rice Thin Palm are highly recommended.
06. Tianxiang Building
Tianxianglou was founded in 1927, funded by Suzhou Lu Lengnian, to operate Hangzhou specialties.
There is an old saying in Hangzhou, "To row a boat, the six piers of the West Lake; to eat vegetables, Hangzhou TianxiangLou". Dongpo meat, West Lake vinegar fish, chicken called Hua, spring shoot fried fish, fire heel fairy duck, etc. are the shop's specialties.
2. Hangzhou long-established gourmet shop
01. Grandma scallion wrapped juniper
Onion bun stew is known as the first classic snack in Hangzhou, and Grandma Sun's house is the most famous one.
An inconspicuous outer door, a small kitchen, supported the grandmother's onion wrapped juniper, a long-established signboard. For 10 bucks a scallion bun, thin skin wrapped in vegetarian roast goose, fritters and shallots, brushed with sweet noodle sauce is super delicious.
02. Wenji fish round
20 years of perseverance, just to make a delicious fish ball. The people who came to their house to buy fish balls were all old Hangzhou people with old roots.
Fish balls have a salty taste, super smooth and tender, elastic, and retain the most authentic taste of fish balls.
03. Kikuying Noodle Restaurant
Ju Ying's piece of Erchuan, known as the first piece of Erchuan in Hangzhou, is of course, the price is more expensive than ordinary noodle shops.
Since "China on the Tip of the Tongue", the business in the store has been even more hot, and queuing is the norm.
04. Zhou Ping Zongzi Shop
This small shop has no façade signboard, only a price list in the house, and the rice dumplings are handmade by the owner.
His family's meat dumplings are the most famous and large. There are two kinds of fat and lean meat in the rice dumplings, and they are chewy to eat.
05. Fang Lao Da Noodle Restaurant
Boss Fang on the edge of the Drum Tower has a high reputation in the jianghu, and although the store is small, it has also been selected as one of the top ten noodle restaurants in Hangzhou.
Guests line up to order the noodles they want to eat, the boss immediately boils, what is put in the pot, guests can see clearly.
06. Xinfeng snacks
The most famous snack bar in Hangzhou, in addition to the Zhiweiguan is Xinfeng snacks.
There are 8 series in the store, more than 60 kinds of flavor snacks for diners to choose, the price is still very close to the people, here you can get the Hangzhou snacks all at once.
07. Youbu soybean milk
This is a veteran breakfast in Hangzhou, which has been open for more than 20 years, and the owner is a Lanxi youbu person, who has been selling soy milk since he was 16 years old.
Salted soy milk, fritters, burnt cakes are his must-order signs, salted soy milk is thick and smooth, and the portion is also super full. The square shallot pancake bites are full of crisp and fragrant green onions.
08. Small wontons
The fillings in the shop are all processed on the same day, and there are not many types of wontons, such as fresh meat celery, fresh meat mushrooms, fresh meat cabbage, etc., as well as fried wontons that may not be eaten elsewhere.
09. Sheep Soup Restaurant
The Yotei Soup Restaurant has been around for more than 200 years and is a well-known century-old restaurant.
Be sure to order a cage of lamb to sell, it is purely handmade, thin skin meat juicy.
010. Jiuzhi Zhai
Jiuzhizhai in Hangzhou can be described as a long-established brand that no one knows.
There is a wide variety of small snacks made here, from refreshing and delicious sesame cakes, fragrant hemp crisps, and crispy and delicious fine sand white sugar mooncakes.
Shenglihe Food Street and Hedong Road are the more popular food streets in Hangzhou.
Jingzhou Road and Gaoyin Street are good choices for late-night snacks. In addition, there are many late-night seafood food stalls on Wangjiang Road, and there are also many 24-hour restaurants on Shuangling Road.
If you want to taste farmhouse cuisine, Meijiawu, Longjing, Santai Mountain and Maojiabu in the West Lake Scenic Area are the best places to go.
And if you want to talk about the most recommended foraging place in Hangzhou, it must be Zhongshan Road.
Among them, Zhongshan North Road is the busiest, and the Japanese food shops here are very popular.
Middle Zhongshan Road is synonymous with petty bourgeoisie, with retro architecture and cuisine from around the world.
Zhongshan South Road is the epitome of the old Hangzhou City, where many long-established snack bars that have been open for decades are concentrated.
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