Since I became a travel editor, my family and friends have always come to me from time to time to ask me" where to go.
Everyone's travel purpose is different, and the relationships between the characters who travel together are also diverse. In the process of being their "artificial intelligence tour guide", I gradually discovered the doorway: no matter what the travel needs, the ancient town category is almost an error-free choice. The reason is that it is really very worry-free, some shop, some look more eat.
Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, Changchun... These cities were known as "cities pulled by trains" in the 1990s. If the same metaphor is used, the place now called the ancient town could have been called the "city where the river flows" a hundred years ago.
In the days of ship transportation, the place where the water was pillowed could easily become a trading center and then prosper. Culture is formed in places with many people, so traditional customs often originate from here, and the most authentic cuisine also likes to hide in it.
The ancient town is a "specialty" of the Gangnam region, and I can report a long list like the name of the dish. In fact, the four seasons of the ancient town are suitable for play, and there will be different moods. But spring, which is perfect for walking, is the best time to visit in my eyes.
This time, I helped you sort out 5 ancient towns in Zhejiang Province that are relatively small and have online food. When you can't figure out where to go to relax, you can open this article for reference.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > Huzhou · Xinshi Ancient Town</h1>
Boss, come to the bowl of lamb noodles
The people of Benhu Prefecture are selfish to give the new city a C position. In the forgotten food town by The Taihu Lake that I wrote last year, this summer should be made debut, I mentioned the "Xinshi Tea Cake", a highlight breakfast that allows me to give up sleeping.
If you come to Xinshi, you will find that lamb noodles are more popular than tea cakes.
At any lamb noodle restaurant, every diner is invariably placed in front of a bowl of lamb, a bowl of noodles, and a bottle of beer. First, come to a large piece of lamb to enjoy, and when you are almost eaten, pour the soup and minced meat into the noodle bowl and inject it into the soul.
Love to eat, can eat, has always been a skill born in Huzhou.
@ Poetry Painting Zhejiang
Why is lamb noodles the top stream?
The lamb in Xinshi was recorded during the Southern Song Dynasty, and the practice was reversed everywhere else: skin, bone removal, and soup. After serving all night with firewood, the meat pieces that have sucked up the soup are gorgeously transformed. It is fat but not greasy, with the characteristic aroma of lamb; the taste is crisp but not rotten, and the teeth are addictive.
Every time I went back to my hometown, My grandfather knew that I loved to eat, so he would go out of his way to buy a box for me to take away.
In addition to lamb noodles, duck noodles are another food protagonist in NewMarket.
This "twisting" is not a typo Oh, in the past when cooking duck, it was tied with cotton thread to make the meat firm and the soup clearer.
@Fisher does not eat fish
The way Xinshi handles duck feed is to cook white soup, without the help of fancy spices, but it is very easy to feel the umami taste of duck meat itself. People in the new city outside, when they go home, they can look forward to this soup that cannot be drunk outside.
The Ben Glutinous Rice Star people also have no resistance to the plum blossom cake here.
There is a small shop in Xinshi that has been on CCTV, and it is said that the ancestral formula in the store was specially developed for Qianlong by the grandfather of the owner's wife, and has been passed down for a hundred years. Delicate and soft bean paste, accompanied by a few winter melon candy, mixed with the aroma of lard, collides on the tip of the tongue.
Those who love to eat Tujia cuisine are blessed, and it is full of fly restaurants commonly known in big cities. The door is not proud, all rely on the chef's hand kung fu circle powder.
A variety of country game and seasonal delicacies are replaced in real time on the blackboard, ensuring that they are the freshest ingredients.
@Nine Smoke Jasmine
Perhaps you can't imagine that the most out-of-the-loop cafes in Huzhou are hidden in the ancient town of Xinshi.
The owners of Penguin Cafe are a couple whose wedding takes place in this small shop. The old house is quite flavorful, both young people's creativity and retaining the atmosphere of the ancient town.
@Light life
Eat enough, consume and see the small town scenery of the new city.
The ancient town of Xinshi flourished because of the canal, and the houses were built along the river, and the front shop was behind the square. Near Juehai Temple (a thousand-year-old temple) and Xihekou, a large number of traditional houses are preserved. Walking through the crisscrossing alleys, the atmosphere of the old times comes to mind.
Bridges are also a major feature of the new city. A total of 72 bridges are recorded in ancient books, and 11 are preserved today. They straddle the river and make the ancient town three-dimensional.
Small bridges, flowing water, people's homes, deep alleys, docks, food... The look of Jiangnan Water Town, it has it all.
Xinshi Ancient Town Food Recommendation:
Zhang Yipin Restaurant, Xiantan Old Soup Noodle Restaurant, Yuansong Lamb Noodles (Lamb Noodles)
Yellow-haired duck stranded
Ling A Niang delicacies (plum blossom cake), three girls tea cake
Juehai Sea Food Workshop, Old House Tucai Tea House (Stir-fry)
Penguin coffee
Transportation/Accommodation:
It is about 50 kilometers away from Huzhou city and 26 kilometers away from Deqing High-speed Railway Station.
You can choose to stay in the surrounding homestays.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > Hangzhou Tangqi Ancient Town</h1>
Take a boat to see old Hangzhou
Come to Hangzhou, the first time to see the West Lake, the second time to see the canal, the third time it is time to go to Tangqi Ancient Town. A trip is closer to the appearance of Hangzhou's old bottom than a lie.
The best way to open the canal town of Tangqi is, of course, by boat. Although the waterway is no longer the mainstream, many cargo ships can still be seen passing by in the river. Sitting in the boat drinking tea and watching the window from the city's high-rise buildings to the bungalow fields is a very special experience.
As soon as the boat docks at the dock, you can see the most representative building of Tangqi - Guangji Long Bridge. The C position of the bridge in the canal section of Hangzhou urban area is the Gongchen Bridge, and it is inevitable to lose some momentum in front of the long bridge. The most powerful point of the long bridge is that the 7-hole long bridge that has been preserved to this day is the only one in the country.
Across the bridge is Shuibei Street, the old house has been converted into a shop, another way for everyone to understand the ancient town. The street is full of snacks, which is the highlight of the trip.
There is a local saying in Tangqi: "Fagen cake huichang dumplings, rice wool meat round and sticky." Fine sand sheep's tail incense baking, pond perch board duck Ding authentic". These 28 words contain the most unmissable food in the local area.
Pastries are the standard in every ancient town in Jiangnan, but there are not many shops like Fagen that have so many categories to choose from.
Now that my daughter has taken over the shop, on the basis of inheriting the ancient law, she has incorporated elements that young people like, which is very fresh.
The picture shows the @xsoofe of heavy hemp crisp
Rice balls are one of my favorite hometown dishes on weekdays. The glutinous rice on the outer bread absorbs the aroma and juice of the meat and is very tasty. The shape is also cute, but it is a pity that it is too full and does not eat much.
Don't be intimidated by the name of the fine sand sheep's tail, it is actually a dessert. After the egg whites and starch are mixed, they are fried together with bean paste, and the skin is fluffy and the filling is delicate. It was given this name because it resembled a lake sheep's tail.
Qianlong went down to Jiangnan seven times, and on the way, he stopped in Tangqi, and maybe he was attracted by the food here. Where he disembarked, there is now a monument with a small but beautiful barn museum behind it.
In the past, almost all the grain in the south was sent up by the canal, and those granaries along the way are now part of the major strategic deployment of the state. Although the museum is not large, it introduces to everyone with clear logic how the ancients worked hard to make the people of the whole country eat a full meal.
If you stay until the evening, then congratulations on the Easter eggs, the night view of Tangqi is beautiful. Yellow lights light up the whole town and the atmosphere is romantic.
Tangqi Ancient Town is not large, arrange 2-3 hours to visit and eat is enough, very suitable for weekends to visit. It is highly recommended to go in May, it is time for loquat to go on the market.
Tangqi Ancient Town Food Recommendation:
Huichang rice dumplings, Fagen pastries, Zhu Yitang, grandmother buckwheat cake (snacks)
Wang Yuanxing, Kangqian Restaurant (local specialties such as plate duck, meat balls, and fine sand sheep's tail)
It is 27 km from downtown Hangzhou and 22 km from Yuhang High-speed Railway Station.
The boat departs daily at 9:00 Wulin Gate Pier and returns at 14:00 pm, with a 2-hour journey. Round-trip 150 yuan / person, free tickets for less than 1.3 meters, charter from 6000 yuan.
There is a Radisson hotel in town which is convenient.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > Shaoxing Anchang Ancient Town</h1>
It's an authentic Shaoxing flavor
These ancient towns are delicious one by one, and I am almost hungry. But I still want to solemnly recommend Anchang, a foodie paradise in the ancient town.
Shaoxing is placed in the whole of Zhejiang Province, and the food is also handy. No one can resist the charm of drunken crabs and rotten chickens, and it is the tip of the tongue that the chef uses to suck the shell and bones clean. The CP of fennel beans and rice wine is still online after a hundred years, and I think Lu Xun is the originator of the goods.
When diving into the depths of the city, you can explore more down-to-earth delicacies. Sauce products are the façade of Anchang, and every household is dried with sauce duck, sauce meat, and salted fish (eh? ）。 The New Year is especially spectacular, and the taste of the New Year has never disappeared here.
Where sauce products are famous, there must be powerful soy sauce. In the first season of "China on the Tip of the Tongue", he came to the Renchang Sauce Garden in the ancient town to find its delicious secrets.
@ Mountains and rivers like dreams
There are hundreds of sauce jar rows in the sauce garden, maybe older than our age. Ancient techniques, brewing with heart, relying on the soy sauce fermented in these sauce tanks, Anchang sausage is famous in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Sauce products can be brought back as souvenirs, and various snacks are suitable for eating while strolling around. Each person spends less than 100 yuan a day to drink and eat.
The 2 yuan sake steamed bun and the 10 yuan of pulled sugar are both intangible cultural heritage foods, and you can also enjoy the teacher's stunt of pulling white sugar for free.
For 10 yuan, you can also buy three pumpkin flowers (similar to plum blossom cake) or three square print cakes, soft and sticky and sweet, which makes people top.
No yellow wine, no Shaoxing, Shaoxing people have integrated wine culture into a variety of drinks. Wine-brewed coffee, rice wine milk tea, and yellow wine sticks are all on the ice, I am afraid that you will not drink some small wine on your trip.
Shaoxing people, who love soy sauce, obviously do not allow their hometown dishes to be eaten blandly. Plum dried vegetables roast meat, steamed double stink, Shao San fresh, wax flavor double spelling... It's all delicious food. At the moment, we are all rice cooks.
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Another reason for liking Anchang is that there are still indigenous people here, and where people live, there will be a feeling of being alive, which is what everyone often says about fireworks.
In the past, the customs of the town have also been continued, such as water town weddings and water town social dramas. In these activities, the canopy boat is an indispensable supporting role.
*In the early years, it was also used to "deliver couriers"
It doesn't matter if you don't have a local event, you can spend 10 yuan to get into the canopy boat and shake it for a while. Or sit in the tea house by the river and watch the boats come and go, which is very comfortable.
The kitchen and the official field are the "playgrounds" of the Shaoxing people. During the Qing Dynasty, the Shaoxing people broke into the profession of master. Although it is not a formal establishment, the threshold of the master is not low, and it takes 3 years to practice with the teacher.
These cultures that have disappeared are now treasured in the Shaoxing Master's Pavilion in Anchang Ancient Town, and if you are interested, you can check them out.
Through monuments in the town such as the Shiye Pavilion, the former site of the Bank of China, the Suikang Qianzhuang, and the Stone Carving Museum, we were able to measure the depth of the ancient town of Anchang on a chronological scale.
@Sakura's Love
Anchang Ancient Town Food Recommendation:
Achang Sauce Shop (Pumpkin Flower), Anchang Printing Cake, Xiaodian Wang (Sake Stuffed Steamed Buns)
Shao Xiao Guan (rice wine drink)
Love glutinous sausage workshop
One-pot fresh farmhouse restaurant, one-flavor restaurant (Shaoxing cuisine)
It is 20 kilometers away from Shaoxing City and 10 kilometers away from Shaoxing North Railway Station of high-speed rail.
Accommodation options are available near the ancient town of New Century Manju.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > Yiwu · Fotang Ancient Town</h1>
Knock on the sugar gang's base
About Yiwu, in this small county town in Zhejiang, I have eaten all over the world. This city of business people embraces cultures from all over the world into its own urban identity.
In addition to the international side, Yiwu also has its own quaint side as the other side of Jiangnan Town. This contrast is vividly reflected in the ancient town of Fotang.
Time pushed back decades, Yiwu people who carried flat burdens and knocked brown sugar in the streets and alleys opened their minds to figure out how to make money by exchanging chicken feathers for sugar. To this day, the reputation of the "Knock Sugar Gang" is still in the jianghu.
Hundreds of years further back, the annual brown sugar harvest season is the most lively time in Fotang Town. Merchants from inside and outside the county have come to buy Yiwu brown sugar, and the town of Fotang in Linshui has naturally become the C position of trade.
Now when I come to Yiwu, I didn't take a jar of brown sugar twist flowers with me, just like going to Changsha without drinking tea and looking happy.
I reckon very few people hook up Yiwu and food, just because it's too hidden. In the ancient town, you can find almost all the local specialty snacks, and just eating a few is enough to subvert your past impression of Yiwu.
My first recommendation is the Thousand Noodles of the Buddha Hall, which looks like a clear soup and a lot of water, but it is actually delicious and delicious, which surprises enough diners.
Hand-rolled thick noodles are full of toughness, accompanied by a thousand sheets, squeezed vegetables, shredded meat, plus the secret weapon lard, a bowl of noodles that knows how to taste is born.
@ Fifty thousand sisters
East River meatloaf and ergot, a double bomb from the carbon water kingdom, even Tranquility called for it on Weibo.
This is not the end of it, taro dumplings, chicken kon, buckwheat rats, Yiwu meat balls queued up to give Yiwu a justified reputation for food status.
* Buckwheat mouse
What impressed me the most was the egg mash with koji, which is not particularly sweet, and the walnuts make the taste richer, which I think is better than xi'an's.
A few years ago, "Running Man" came to Fotang Ancient Town to record a program, and the guests rode two or eight large bar bicycles on the stone road, and the scene was very crossed. Deng Chao also took the time to go to an old-fashioned barbershop, and an old craftsman in his 70s cut his hair for 15 yuan.
@Shutter Performer
The origin of the name of the town is said to be related to an Indian monk, and the town once had a very strong Buddhist atmosphere. The Shuanglin Temple, which was ordered by Emperor Wu of Liang, is said to have produced many senior monks, but fortunately it has been preserved and has become a witness to history.
When I visited the market in Yiwu city before, I smelled more of the smell of the business field. The ancient town is a supplement to the culture, so I have not come to the Buddhist hall, and I do not really know Yiwu.
Fotang Ancient Town Food Recommendation:
Paramount Buddha Hall, Xinghua Thousand Noodles, Buddha Hall on the Tip of the Tongue, Old Man's Dumplings (Snacks)
Chicken feathers for sugar, Lafayette Restaurant (stir-fry)
It is 14 km from Yiwu City, 25 km from Yiwu Airport and 24 km from Yiwu High-speed Railway Station.
Accommodation options are available for homestays nearby.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > Ningbo · Cicheng Ancient County</h1>
Mini version of Chang'an
Many people know Cixi, Ningbo, but not necessarily Cicheng. Why is it called an ancient county town? Because it still retains the road layout and administrative places of that year.
When the county town was planned, it imitated the layout of the double chessboard of Chang'an One Street and One River, and the roads were straight and straight. A thousand years later, it became the most precious place in the small county, and it also won the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Award.
I estimate that in addition to Ningbo tangyuan, everyone should have bought Ningbo rice cakes in the supermarket. Cicheng is called the hometown of rice cakes, in other words, this is the birthplace of Ningbo rice cakes.
Rice cakes were eaten by the Cicheng people in various tricks. The basic model is a rice cake ball wrapped in sesame sugar or pickles, and the soft texture of the glutinous Q bomb is difficult not to be addicted.
@ Eat Love Ningbo
The upgraded version is a rice cake slice, which is fried in the sand and crispy. There are all kinds of flavors on the street, watching dramas and watching variety shows, be fragrant.
@ Cocoa's gourmet life
The ultimate version is hidden in the rice cake theme restaurant, plum dried vegetables, sauerkraut fish, osmanthus sugar, pig intestines are all taken and fried with rice cakes. Well, this time it's really "fried".
By the way, when seasonal stir-fried rice cakes appear on the menu, be sure to choose it. The Ningbo colleague in the office said that this was the ceiling of the fried rice cake industry.
@ Love sweet corn porridge
Cicheng also has two bowls of noodles, trying to grab your stomach and keep your heart.
First bowl: Pork liver fried noodles. Each bowl is individually produced in the chef's greatest respect for the noodles. Each noodle has the opportunity to get up close and personal with the pot, combined with a rich sauce to stimulate the aroma.
@Time Traveler
Second bowl: eel noodles. Even if it comes at noon, this bowl of signature noodles is at risk of not being eaten. The carefully treated eel is tender and delicious, and the amount is also sufficient.
@Watermelon soda
Cicheng's ancient buildings and food are equally divided, because they are well preserved, so that we can better substitute for the scenes of past life. In addition to the traditional houses found in the general ancient town, there are also completely preserved county ya, Confucius Temple, and a private residence that hides the Cicheng version of the "Qingming Upper River Map" - Feng Yu House.
If you like to see the original Qing Dynasty architecture, then you will not be disappointed to come here.
Cicheng ancient county food recommendation:
Mochi theme restaurant, ancient town mochi restaurant
Xinhua Dim Sum Shop, Awa Noodle Restaurant (Pork Liver Noodles)
Huan Huan Specialty Noodle Restaurant, Aram Po Noodle Restaurant (Eel Noodles)
Zoumazhuang Restaurant, Zhonghua House (stir-fry)
It is 31 km from Ningbo City, 26 km from Ningbo Lishe Airport and 20 km from Ningbo High-speed Railway Station.
The property can choose a homestay near the ancient town.
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Weekends and ancient town tours are very compatible, if it is a small long holiday, then you can play with the city or surrounding attractions.
The scene of the "Thin Horse of the Ancient Road West Wind" in the poem is difficult to reproduce, but the "Little Bridge Flowing Water Man's Home" has been preserved. There is a copywriting in Wuzhen that impressed me: time has changed many things, but it has never changed here.
If the museum contains works of art, then the ancient town hides ordinary life. It's good to feel it once in a while, not to mention there are so many delicious things.
TIPS：
Suggested tour schedule:
Xinshi Ancient Town 1 day, Tangqi Ancient Town half a day, Anchang Ancient Town 1 day, Fotang Ancient Town half a day, Cicheng Ancient County Town 1 day.
Tickets:
The ancient town is free to enter, and individual attractions in the scenic spot need to be charged, and you can buy a joint ticket.
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