Hangzhou is a city with four distinct seasons, and each season has a different scenery in the past. The willow warblers cry in spring, the residual sun in summer is like blood, the ten miles of osmanthus flowers in autumn, and the snow on the broken bridge in winter.
Daughter Duoduo and son meat meat like the city of Hangzhou, not only because there is a beautiful West Lake, the legend of the white snake, the solemn Yue Temple, and delicious Hangzhou cuisine.
Speaking of food, I have written a previous article titled "Bai Xiang Xuan Miao Guan, Eating Eunuch Lane: Take the Baby for Three Days and Two Nights to Experience the Local Food Culture", which is about Suzhou cuisine. After writing it, she showed it to Duoduo, and she was hungry to see it. I said no, I'm fat when I write about food— because when I write about food, I always want to eat something.
Say more, Mom, you can write about Hangzhou's food, we have eaten a lot of good things in the outer building by the West Lake.
Hangzhou is relatively close to Shanghai, but it is far away from Suzhou. So every weekend trip feels like coming and going in a hurry.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" >01 rice dumplings and stinky tofu along the way </h1>
Shanghai drove past about 3 hours, after the beautiful Hangzhou Bay Bridge, more meat called it Rainbow Bridge, because the bridge railing changes colors every other section, all the way to the past, it is not monotonous. There are large service areas at both ends of the bridge, and the parking lot is surprisingly large and full.
We sometimes buy some Rice Dumplings from Wufangzhai in the service area to eat. There are large meat dumplings, egg yolk meat dumplings, red bean dumplings, bean paste dumplings.
After sitting in the car for a long time, I wanted to eat salty meat dumplings. Jiangnan people like to eat abundant food, and many folk foods love to use lard and fatty meat to increase the flavor. I once ate a square piece of fat in the bean paste dumplings in Ningbo. In the big meat dumplings of Wufangzhai, in addition to the pickled lean meat, you can always eat a piece of fat that is dangling.
Duo Dad saw the stinky tofu shop next to him, the wooden house, hanging a cloth signboard, quite a "water village mountain Guo wine flag wind" taste, he ordered another stinky tofu, the shape is large and wide, smelling strong. We tasted it, and the children said that it was not delicious, there was no smelly tofu aroma from the hometown, but it was a little sour. It is estimated that the method of fermentation of tofu is different.
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We set off on Friday afternoon and arrived at the hotel at the beginning of the lights.
Pack your bags and go outside to forage. The hotel is by the West Lake, and there are many places to eat by the lake, because it is a weekend, it is full of guests.
We walked back and found that the streets surrounding the lake were all restaurants, and we found a random one to walk in. The receptionist took us to the basement, which was covered with tiles with white flowers on all four walls, which felt like it was newly renovated. Thinking that the business was too good, there was not enough to sit upstairs, so that this basement was dug up to increase space.
Sitting still, only to find that it is not a Hangzhou gang dish, but it also came, the children are also hungry to argue to eat, they randomly ordered a few dishes, and now the taste is forgotten, no effort.
Some people who eat here are nearby residents, some are tourists from other places, and the food is not delicious, but the interest and atmosphere are very strong. The cuteness of the Chinese people is that they have a plate of screws and a glass of wine, slowly sucking, drinking shallowly, as if they already have the whole world.
Looking for a picture of a fountain on the Internet to talk about masturbating
When we came out of the hotel, the reception staff told us that there was a musical fountain in the lakeside square in front of the hotel in the evening. After eating, I hurriedly walked back, faintly heard the music, but could not see the fountain, which was surrounded by three layers of people in the crowd.
He slowed down and walked around the West Lake. Mr. Zhu Ziqing said: The waves of the West Lake are too clear. And now, under the dark blue night, under the reflection of various lights on the lakeside, the West Lake is more and more like a large piece of unpolished black jade, permeated with soft light.
We bought a glowing balloon for Duoduo and Meat Meat, which they regarded as a treasure, and later returned to Shanghai, and they still carried it. The balloon collapsed, and the filament on it was removed by them and played for a while.
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The next morning, when I opened the curtains, I knew that Mr. Zhu was not deceived: the Ming waves of the West Lake created a vast and bright background, covering the willow trees, benches, and morning running people on the shore like black silhouettes.
Our main tourist location is the West Lake, out of the hotel, we began to walk along the lake, all the way to enjoy the Ten Views of the West Lake. At one point, it rained a drizzle, but there were still tourists and tourists.
At noon, the children are crying out that they are hungry, and Dad looks at the map of his mobile phone, so let's hold on a little longer, and we are about to go to the outside of the building.
Louwailou in the small isolated mountain, the famous dishes West Lake vinegar fish and Song sister-in-law fish soup, has long been famous, popular among the population. It wasn't a meal spot when we arrived and didn't need to wait.
We looked out from the circular flower window at the end of the staircase walkway, the spring rain on the lake was babbling, and the green mountains outside the lake were hidden, which was easy to associate with the name of the restaurant: "The outer building of the Qingshan Building outside the mountain". But when I went upstairs, I found that the good seats near the window were full.
We ordered Song Sister-in-law fish soup, West Lake vinegar fish, vegetarian dishes and dim sum. The girl who ordered the order was good to talk about, and forced a chicken called Flower Chicken to give us. She said that Song Sister-in-law fish soup and West Lake vinegar fish are both fish, and calling flower chicken is also a famous dish in louwailou. Coupled with duoduo and meat meat to see the next table called flower chicken shape is interesting, shouting to eat, do dad added another called flower chicken.
Song Sister-in-law Fish Soup and West Lake Vinegar Fish are both from women with the surname Song, but they are not the same person.
Song Wujie's fish soup is cooked from the north to the south. Song Wujie's sister-in-law has been recorded in the Song people's "Maple Window Xiaomu", saying that she used to run a diet in Beijing for a living, and was famous for making fish soup.
Later, Song Mu nandu, she also followed the south to Lin'an, chose the lively place of Su Causeway, took local materials, and used the fat and thorny ji (four sounds) flower fish (Shanghainese called guiyu and mandarin fish) as soup for sale.
Emperor Xiaozong of Song accompanied Emperor Gaozong on a tour of the West Lake, and summoned the fifth sister-in-law of Song to board the royal boat spoon, which had the flavor of the old capital, which was greatly appreciated and rewarded, so it was famous.
Mr. Yu Pingbo, a modern poet and writer, said in "A Brief Discussion on the Diet of Hangzhou and Beijing": "The beauty of the fish soup in the West Lake has been passed down for thousands of years. ”
Although it is a fish soup, but there is no fish in the soup, it turns out that this dish is to steam the fish first, remove the skin and bone, and crush the fish meat,
Add other ingredients to add freshening: shredded ham, shredded mushrooms, minced bamboo shoots, chicken broth, etc., and drizzled with egg mixture, thin sauce, vinegar, minced green onion, pepper.
Serve it up, taste it, the sweetness and sourness are moderate, fresh and delicious, and the child has an appetite for eating.
Another Song sister-in-law's West Lake vinegar fish, or derived from the "uncle sister-in-law Chuanzhen". According to legend, the Song brothers, who read poetry and books, lived in seclusion in the West Lake to make a living fishing. Sister-in-law Song has a lot of posture, and is favored by the villain Zhao Mou and harms his brother.
The uncles and sisters-in-law fled, and before they left, Sister-in-law Song cooked the fresh salamander from the boat, added sugar and wine, and seasoned it with vinegar. Sister-in-law Song warned her brother not to forget that there is bitterness in sweetness. Song Sister-in-law's West Lake vinegar fish, from this.
The price of vinegar fish was divided into three grades, we ordered a vinegar fish king that seemed to be more than two hundred, asked the lady of the order, what is the difference between this and the cheaper one, the girl smiled, and could not say why it came.
Served to the table, the plates are large and the portions are generous. The vinegar fish has bright eyes, thin and moist, and looks a bit "kingly". And there is no earthy smell, accompanied by finely sliced ginger shreds, and the food has a slight crab flavor.
Just a personal feeling, this West Lake vinegar fish in the outer building of the building is slightly sour.
Before eating northern cuisine, I found that northerners love to put vinegar in cooking fish, and later checked to find out that the original West Lake vinegar fish was a "tile fish" from Henan: "Use live green fish, burn it with oil, add sauce and vinegar to cook it." "Later, in the 20s of the last century, the West Lake vinegar fish was changed to steaming in oil, and now it is boiled in boiling water, and then thinned, which has become the Plate of West Lake vinegar fish on our current table.
The West Lake vinegar fish preserves the characteristics of vinegar used for local cooking fish, and integrates the sweetness of local dishes to create a new flavor.
We can't help but lament that the way of eating is the easiest to pass on, and after absorbing the characteristics of local dishes, it becomes a new variety of another local dish.
But this is all after a long period of trial and accumulation, innovation, not overnight.
Let's talk about the last one on the table called flower chicken, and the West Lake vinegar fish, these two dishes are divided into three classes on the menu, we ordered more than three hundred, known as the flower chicken king.
First, a lump of earth came up and showed it to you, and then a master knocked it open with a hammer on the side table, and up came a chicken called Huahua in a phoenix plate.
The chicken is crispy and fragrant, and even the bones can be eaten. The chicken belly was filled with shredded pork and shiitake mushrooms, etc., absorbing the deliciousness of the chicken, and the two children did not like to eat shiitake mushrooms and ate a lot.
After eating, just when the wind and rain stopped, we continued along the lake. The food and the beauty are not to be disappointed.
Hangzhou not only has the beautiful scenery of "paradise on earth", but also has the reputation of "paradise food house". Hangbang cuisine has a long history, absorbing the aura of landscape and water, and absorbing the strengths of major cuisines.
How many kinds of food have you eaten in Hangzhou?
(Some of the pictures in the article come from the Internet, invaded and deleted)