Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Huang Baoqing
Veteran foodies who like to eat noodles know that the early summer without "three shrimp noodles" is incomplete. In the past, if you wanted to eat three shrimp noodles, you had to take the high-speed train to Suzhou, but now you can eat it without leaving Hangzhou City.
In Hangzhou's old five-star Hotel, the Huanglong Hotel, there is an exquisite noodle restaurant called "Su Mian Fang", where in addition to eating three shrimp noodles that have been missed for a year, there are also a variety of classic and authentic Su-style noodles.
Walking into Su Mian Fang, you can hear the gentle and beautiful Suzhou commentary, and the environment is also elegant. Wu Nong's soft voice is in your ears, making you slow down unconsciously, and it turns out that it is such an elegant thing to come here to eat noodles.
Su-style noodles pay attention to exquisite, ingenious, fine and elegant, and a bowl of noodles is enough to show the style of Jiangnan. Su Mian Fang originated in the 1930s and 1940s, and was founded by returned overseas Chinese from Suzhou.
"Listen to the drama first, eat noodles first drink soup", soup is one of the essence of Suzhou noodles. At that time, Su Noodle Factory, because the soup in the shop had a special recipe, the guests were endless all year round, and the toppings were even more diverse, and they had to be equipped with more than 3 kinds of soups.
Signature three shrimp noodles
Three shrimp noodles is a representative work of Su-style noodles, in addition to the precious point is that from time to time do not eat, only in June and July, cumbersome production, time-consuming, labor-intensive is also the main reason.
Three shrimp is to break the river shrimp into three parts, and impatient people will be annoyed to collapse. To peel out the shrimp, the shrimp head is cooked to remove the shrimp brain, the shrimp shell is scrubbed and filtered out of the shrimp seeds and fried dry and cooked, and then these three are fried into a plate of toppings and mixed noodles to eat.
As soon as the noodles are brought to the table, you will first see the seductive and beautiful appearance, followed by a full sense of ceremony. The waiter will first ask the guest's request, and then very carefully and skillfully help you mix the noodles.
Then you start to enjoy it, Q bullet shrimp, crispy shrimp brain, shrimp seeds with obvious granularity, a spoonful into the mouth, really a mouthful of noodles, full of fresh, let you completely relieve your hunger.
You must think that this three-shrimp noodle set is very expensive for 158 yuan, right? If you understand the price of river shrimp, and then make three shrimp noodles yourself, you will not sell for 998 yuan a bowl.
Bald butter noodles
Suzhou people are not only good at dismantling shrimp, but also good at dismantling crabs.
Bald is the pronunciation of the Suzhou dialect, is the meaning of "unique", the crab paste crab yellow is taken out, fried with lard, then simmered with rice wine, seasoned with broth, and finally drizzled with lard and sprinkled with pepper, before condensing into this bowl of golden delicacy.
Bald butter has been on the gourmet Cai Lan's "must eat before death menu", and with a "flavor of the world" fire all over the country, so that people who have not eaten it are hungry and drooling.
The bald butter noodles of Su Noodle Fang use the crab yellow and crab paste of 6 hairy crabs, the crab aroma is rich, soft and dense, not allowed to have a trace of crab meat, how fragrant it smells, how hard it is to get.
Crab Supreme
If the bald butter can't satisfy you, order the crab supreme, eat more essence of crab, full of a large pot of crab paste, crab yellow, crab powder, so that you really live a full crab addiction.
Squirrel mandarin fish noodles
Squirrel mandarin fish has a sweet, crisp and tender taste, and looks like a cute little squirrel. Here is a whole fish on the table, and there are crystal clear shrimp embellishments, with the white soup noodles of Su Noodle Fang, it is full of Suzhou famous dishes.
Sweet and sour mandarin fish meat with smooth noodles, plus delicious noodle soup, slowly taste, each bite is enjoying the exquisite life of Jiangnan people.
The toppings of Su-style noodles are also the essence, which is different from the toppings poured on the noodles by Hangzhou people. The toppings of Suzhou-style noodles have evolved into a delicate Suzhou freshly fried side dish, and the variety of Suzhou noodle toppings should be incomparable.
Old Suzhou often said, "eat red soup on cold days, eat white soup on hot days", now this season you can order a 18 yuan white soup noodle base, and then choose your favorite toppings, sauce popcorn, secret beef, eight treasure spicy sauce, Su-style fried fish, shrimp popcorn ... Each one is very distinctive.
Su-style noodles have a variety of exquisite, you see the action of the big sister cooking noodles like clouds flowing water, in a moment the thin noodles are fished into the bamboo fence, poured into the bowl is the perfect "crucian carp back" shape.
Broken noodles cannot be served, and the noodles given to guests must be complete. Therefore, Su-style noodles have careful thoughts everywhere.
The soup at the bottom of this white soup noodle soup looks clear, but it is really hard-won. Every morning at 6 o'clock in the shop, the soup starts boiling, and the big bucket contains whole old hens, ducks, meat bones, eel bones... You also need to add a whole box of Yunnan mushrooms, explosive morels, porcini mushrooms, matsutake mushrooms, cordyceps flowers, etc., boil for 5 hours, and then have a bucket of clear and transparent, fragrant, mellow and non-greasy fresh soup.
Su-style stewed meat is the most popular topping in Suzhou in summer, and it must be made by choosing three layers of local pork and simmering for five hours. Don't wonder why the stew is cold on the table, you just need to soak the meat in the noodle soup before eating it, and it will melt slowly.
The noodles are moderately soft and elastic. The stewed meat is soaked in the soup to become soft and tender, and it breaks in one clip, and the texture that melts in the mouth is fat but not greasy, making people irresistible. It's a seemingly simple, but super charismatic noodle, refreshing, but without any greasy feeling.
Finally, I would like to emphasize that it is really not expensive to come here to eat noodles. First of all, the real materials, good value for money; secondly, come here to eat noodles to send a pot of tea, five-star hotels can renew a cup of tea, when you leave also send parking coupons.
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