Sure enough! This time, I dug up a treasure town with fireworks and delicious food at my doorstep! It only takes 0.5h from Hangzhou to start from Hangzhou!
@图虫创意
It is located at the intersection of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and has more than 2,000 years of cultural heritage.
It is not only one of the top 30 in the Yangtze River Delta, but also shortlisted in the top 100 small counties in the country - it is Jiashan, Zhejiang.
@图虫创意
You may be unfamiliar with its name, but you must have heard of "Xitang Ancient Town", one of the six ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River! It is not only rated as the most beautiful ancient town in China by National Geographic, but also the birthplace of "Wuyue Culture".
White walls and tiles, cooking smoke, small bridges and flowing water, rowing boats creaking through the bridge, both sides of the bank are ancient residential buildings, if it encounters a rainy day, it simply breaks the dimensional wall, and moves Ying Yeping's Jiangnan ink painting into reality.
@图虫创意
In addition to the picturesque scenery, the food here carries the childhood memories of many Jiashan locals: siu mai, small wontons, fried raw food, goose head neck, scallion oil noodles, eight treasure rice, oil dun, .....
@央视 "Taste"
While feeling the tenderness of ink Jiangnan, while enjoying the carb bomb that subverts the taste buds, it is really a typical treasure Jiangnan town~
And the traffic in Jiashan is really convenient, as a small city under the jurisdiction of Jiaxing, 34min from Hangzhou by high-speed rail, 24min from Shanghai, basically about 1h by car, one foot on the accelerator~
So, without further ado, just find a weekend with Ah Qiu to unlock the treasures and delicacies of this small city in the south of the Yangtze River~
With several carb bombs
Start a day full of vitality for Jiashan people
/Roasted wheat/
Xiaohongshu @ Don't eat coriander
Siu mai is one of the snacks to big breakfasts of Jiashan people, and a steaming basket of siu mai can start the day full of vitality.
Different from the paper skin siu mai we usually eat, Jiashan's siu mai is more like a combination of soup dumplings and siu mai, and the ratio of lean meat and fatty meat in the filling is also extremely exquisite.
Little Red Book @ Crazy Flat Little Bear
In addition to the proportion of fillings, Jiaxing people have an old saying, "eat siu mai, look at the flower paper", that is to say, to see whether the siu mai is authentic or not, you have to look at the skin first, and the stuffing with thin skin is the best.
Traditional ravioli
Xiaohongshu @ Don't eat coriander
Although the name of the shop is "Traditional Wonton", there is much more to the store than just wontons!
The roasted oatmeal in this shop is really thin, wrapped in tender meat filling, plus diced bamboo shoots, when eating, first bite a small hole in the skin to drink soup, in a mouthful of filling, full of salty and fresh, not to mention how delicious, per capita 30+r can eat support
Address: Shijia Road and Jiefang Road traffic light intersection
/ Goose head neck /
@最嘉善
It's not really made of goose!The essence is a small snack~
This belongs to the food memory engraved into the DNA of the older generation of Jiashan people in the seventies and eighties, and it is a snack that glutinous lovers must not miss.
The method seems simple, but it is very particular, first steam the glutinous rice flour, then take out the cooked glutinous rice flour from the steamer, roll it into a powder cake with a diameter of about 15 cm with a rolling pin, and then sprinkle the bean paste filling evenly on the flour, wrap it up and cut it into small pieces, put it in a cool place, and wait for it to cool to become a goose head neck that can be eaten directly.
@平湖经开
When I first heard about it, Ah Qiu thought it was lo-mei, but I didn't expect it to be something similar to donkey rolling and mochi. The appearance is white and yellow, generally speaking, it is a bean paste filling, soft and glutinous and sweet to eat, and the taste is cool, a bit like a cold cake.
Cool to the west
@Galin
Now it is rare to see a shop selling goose head neck on the street, it is recommended to go to Lianglaixi, this store is a time-honored brand that has been open for more than 40 years, the main thing is traditional snacks, the disadvantage is that the location is not easy to find and the door is not very easy to park.
Xiaohongshu @berryberrymile
Although it is a small shop, the service and hygiene can keep up, in addition to the goose head neck must be ordered, their bamboo shoots and diced pork siu mai is also a must, small wontons and sugar cakes are also worth trying, both of which are also very delicious!
30 per capita is enough to eat. However, it should be noted that this is basically only open for the morning market, and there are quite a lot of people who go to eat, so you can rush early~
Address: Peacock City, Huannan Road
Raw pan-fry daily
Little Red Book @UncleReno
It is also an old shop that has been open for decades, although it is the main fried food, I heard others say that it started by selling siu mai before, and I also heard that Jiashan's fried fried food does not put green onions and sesame seeds......
Little Red Book @UncleReno
This shop is an authentic Jiashan fried method, so many people are not used to eating this bite, if you want to try local snacks, you can come and try it, I think the fried raw fried without green onions and sesame seeds is almost meaningful, but their scallion oil noodles are still very delicious.
Address: Intersection of Jiashan Garden Road and Cemetery Road
/Eight Treasure Rice/
@平湖经开
At the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in Jiashan, Babao rice can be said to be indispensable for every family. Red bean paste is the soul of Jiashan Eight Treasure Rice, with candied dates, red dates, raisins and other fillings, the rice grains are full, and the taste is rich when scooped into a spoonful, soft and glutinous and sweet.
@平湖经开
It is recommended to go to Xitang people to eat, in the Xitang Scenic Area, the per capita appearance of seventy or eighty, before it was after four o'clock in the afternoon, you can go in directly, and you don't need to buy tickets.
Xitang people
Dianping @ Freedom
The eight-treasure rice in their store is sweet but not greasy, much better than the instant food packaging bought in the supermarket, and the eight-treasure duck is also a must-eat! It is a bit like the method of glutinous rice chicken, the duck is spread on the lotus leaf, the glutinous rice inside is very fragrant, and the duck meat tastes soft and rotten.
The white-cut chicken in the store is also good, and the cooking is also very authentic, the chicken skin is smooth but not fatty, the chicken is very tender, and it tastes relatively firm.
Address: No. 37, Chaonandai, Xitang Ancient Town (50 meters west of Yongning Bridge)
/Xitang tamale/
@嘉兴三农
If you go to Jiashan, then you must try this Xitang steamed pork that has been rated as a "famous dish in Zhejiang", and it has also been included in the fourth batch of Jiashan County intangible cultural heritage protection list, which has a very long history.
It was first recorded in the "Qing Barnyard Banknotes". During the Republic of China, Yifeng Yuan, a famous restaurant on Tangdong Street, once used lotus leaf tamales as its signature dish.
Authentic tamales are fragrant in the mouth, oily but not greasy, and are mainly made with pork belly ribs, spiced fried rice noodles and fresh lotus leaves.
Jiashan special snacks
Even the local gourmets can't refuse
/Oil Pier/
Xiaohongshu @ eats 100 million bites
The main use of glutinous rice flour is the oil pier, so it tastes crispy on the outside and soft glutinous taste on the inside, and the pier will be made into a steamed bun shape, and it will be fried in the pot along the edge of the pot and fried in the pot, and when the oil pier floats up and is golden brown, it will be turned over, and it will be fried until both sides are golden brown, and the oil pier will become.
There are usually two kinds of bean paste filling and meat filling. The oil just out of the pot is golden in color, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, the oil dun with meat filling is full of salty and fragrant mouthful, and the bean paste filling is sweet but not greasy.
Shan Feng Xuan
Xiaohongshu @ eats 100 million bites
After all, in 1857, there was a Shanfengxuan teahouse, which was an old place for Jiashan people to drink morning tea and eat dim sum, carrying the memories of many locals.
Many locals have grown up eating the oil pier of "Shanfeng Xuan" since childhood, and its oil dun is fried relatively crispy, and the cooking is quite delicious.
Xiaohongshu @ eats 100 million bites
Although the teahouse is no longer there, there is an aunt who makes oil piers opposite the parking lot of Jiashan Longbai, it is said that she is the last generation of dim sum chefs in Shanfengxuan, and she is still using the old skills taught by the master to make dim sum, and this is 30 years.
Address: Opposite the parking lot of Jiashan Longbai
/Malt cake/
@嘉善发布
Malt cake should be one of the must-eat snacks in the spring of Jiashan people. It is mainly made from rice flour, sprout wheat flour and a grass called Buddha ear grass.
Glutinous rice and japonica rice are mixed and milled into flour in a certain proportion, then mixed with appropriate malt flour, then kneaded into a dough with chopped aorfrage heads, added with filling, put into a pan to fry, and sprinkled with sesame seeds and sugar water after coming out of the pan.
The malt cake just out of the pot is full of aroma, take a bite while it is still steaming, it is crispy, soft and glutinous and not sticky to the teeth, the taste is a bit like fried cake, not sweet or greasy, very delicious.
/Bazhen Cake/
@图虫创意
Bazhen cake has some origins, this dim sum has in the Qing Dynasty, known as "ginseng cake" or "gourd cake", produced in Jiashan Xitang for the authentic Bazhen cake.
It was created by Zhong Daosun, a famous doctor in Xitang in 1920. It is mainly made of rice flour and sugar as the main ingredients, and then added to the eight flavors of traditional Chinese medicine as ingredients, and its production skills have been included in the third batch of Zhejiang Province intangible cultural heritage list. Not only is it delicious, but it also has a variety of effects such as tonifying the spleen and dispelling dampness, delaying aging, and tonifying the kidney.
@嗨嘉兴
Now do more authentic is Xitang Yazhiju Food Co., Ltd. inheritance of the original Xitang Food Factory, is in accordance with the material to restore the traditional flavor to the greatest extent, if the specialty store to buy Bazhen cake, it is recommended to buy this manufacturer, in addition to the specialty store there are some Chinese medicine halls will also sell.
Tube granny stinky tofu
@最嘉善
Guan Lao Tai's stinky tofu is also a decades-old brand, and unlike Changsha stinky tofu, the stinky tofu here has no soup and is directly poured with sweet noodle sauce.
It is mainly divided into two kinds of steaming and frying, the steamed stinky tofu is fragrant and tender but does not smell good, and the fried stinky tofu is crispy on the outside and crispy on the inside, salty and fresh.
Xiaohongshu @ eats 100 million bites
There are a lot of old ladies in Xitang Scenic Area, and it is said that the authentic and delicious old shop is diagonally opposite the old Gujia Hotel, and the price is about 10 yuan a piece.
The first string of Jiashan
@最嘉善
The students of Jiashan "Old Fourth Middle School" should be very familiar with the "Jiashan First String", and every time they come home from school, they have to buy a copy to eat, and over time it has become a taste in childhood memories.
Before you get to the stall, you can smell the aroma of fried skewers from afar, the skin is crispy, the chicken inside is tender and delicious, the taste is very tender, and with the secret seasoning, it is really delicious!
@最嘉善
It is said that the master's stall time is 14:30-18:00 every evening, to give you a reference, don't run empty.
Address: Opposite Jiashan Guangbiao College of Shanghai Sanda University
Strange dishes that I've never heard of
Pinch your stomach with ease
/送子龙辙蹄/
@湖区旅游
Sending the dragon hoof is a traditional delicacy in Jiashan place, and the practice is also very exquisite, and it needs to go through a series of steps such as material selection, blanching, and oil before it can be cooked in the pot.
The color of the dragon hooves just out of the pot is bright, the meat is crispy, fat but not greasy, the lips and teeth are fragrant, and its sauce is super rich, it is simply amazing for bibimbap, you can eat three bowls!
Seven tables of boutique restaurants
The location is in the Xitang Scenic Area, which belongs to the local popular restaurant, and the store is not big and there are not many seats, so it is often necessary to queue, but fortunately, the number is quite fast, and there is no need to queue for a long time.
The main thing in the store is Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine, the taste is quite authentic, there is basically no thunder on the dishes, their dragon hooves are also very delicious, the boss is very good, depending on the situation, the cost performance is really high, there is no need to worry about not being full.
/ Smoked /
@上海三农
The "drawing" in smoked silk is the dialect of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, which is a toad in our Mandarin, although it sounds like a dark food, but it tastes really amazing!
After removing the head and skin, marinating in sauce, and roasting in a smoky fire, the toad becomes a peerless delicacy that is better than a bullfrog!
@上海三农
The "smoked brush" just out of the pot is golden in color, and a piece of meat is put in the mouth, the meat is fresh and tender, and there is a hint of sweetness when chewed carefully.
However, because the "toad" is a key protected wild animal in Shanghai, the shops on the market that do smoked and brushed silk are replaced by bullfrogs, and the difference in taste between the two is not too big, and the bullfrogs will be bigger than the brushed, and the meat quality is looser than the brushed.
Fragrant food
Little Red Book @ Miss Ninety-Four
The shop recommended by the locals, their smoked silk is made of traditional methods, and it is a relatively delicious shop made with bullfrogs, and the meat is Q bomb.
Little Red Book @ Miss Ninety-Four
In addition to smoked and brushed, it is also recommended to try the iron plate large intestine, sauerkraut fish, and stir-fried beef with white sauce, the amount of dishes is very large, and it is enough for 2 people to order two or three dishes.
Address: No. 153, Tingqiao South Road, Jiashan County
/Rock sugar eel/
Born in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, it is natural to eat river fresh, Jiaxing people are used to calling river eels eels, and the most traditional method is rock sugar eels.
Wash the eel, cut the back into sections, change the water in the middle and wash it many times, put it in the pot, add an appropriate amount of old wine, rock sugar, wolfberry, garlic cloves, and finally add brown sugar to taste, after the pot is fragrant, take advantage of the heat to eat a bite, the eel meat melts in the mouth, sweet but not greasy, delicious, it is worth a try!