There is a story of the "White Cloud Pig Hand" Pang Lixing
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Baiyun pig hand is a famous dish in Guangzhou. There is also a story about the cooking and circulation of this famous dish:
According to legend, there was a small monk in the Nengren Temple in the Baiyun Mountain, who went down the mountain one day to buy fasting vegetables, secretly bought a pig hand and brought it back to the kitchen, ready to cook it for himself to enjoy.
The little monk had just cooked the pig's hand when he heard the sound of the master returning from out, and he was so frightened that he threw the pig's hand into the lianquan water stream behind the kitchen.
There was a woodcutter on the other side of the creek, who saw this scene and felt that it was too wasteful, and rushed downstream to pick up the pig hand and go home.
The woodcutter returned home, hurried to sell firewood, and fearing that the pig's hands would deteriorate in the hot weather, he put the pig's hands into the white vinegar that usually pickled sauerkraut and soaked them. Returning home in the evening, the woodcutter cooked the pig's hand with the spring water and sugar to become a sweet and sour pig hand. Sweet and sour pig hands, sweet and sour, refreshing and not greasy, good taste!
At the foot of Baiyun Mountain, there is a Shahe Restaurant by Lianquan, there is a chef who is very good at cooking food, and in his spare time, he goes everywhere to collect the cooking methods of local cuisine. After learning of the woodcutter's sweet and sour pig hand, he went to the woodcutter's house to visit.
The chef tried the woodcutter's sweet and sour pork hand, and it tasted good and was worth learning and promoting. Back at the restaurant, after the chef's processing and improvement, the sweet and sour pork hand is more colorful and fragrant, and the table is loved by diners.
The pig hands on the table are still white and pure, different from the usual pig hand methods and sales, the chef based on the story of the woodcutter picking up pig hands in Baiyun Mountain, so the dish was named "Baiyun Pig Hand", which has become a very distinctive dish in Guangzhou!