As a travel self-media, Yufan has traveled to almost every province, municipality and autonomous region in the motherland, photographed a lot of food, tasted a lot of food, it is difficult to say which place has the most beautiful scenery, which food is the most delicious, because each scenery has its own charm, each dish contains different characteristics, but if you ask where the dining experience is the most special, it may give you multiple recommendations, but it must include the cliff restaurant in Yichang.
Yichang Cliff Restaurant is located about 100 meters from the mouth of the Lower Prison Creek, a tributary of the Yangtze River, adjacent to the famous Sanyou Cave, on the opposite bank is the nationally famous Three Gorges Bungee Jumping, the restaurant is located in a cave above the cliff cliff, below the vertical cliff, the dining experience is extremely unique.
The restaurant was named Fang Weng Restaurant, named after the famous patriotic poet Of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu You (Zi Fang Weng), according to relevant historical records, in the sixth year of the Southern Song Dynasty Xiaozong Qiandao (1170), Lu You was appointed by the imperial court as the general judge of Kui Prefecture (present-day Fengjie, Chongqing), and on may 18, Lu You's family took the mouth from Shanyin County and traveled by water to Fuzhou to take up his post. The family traveled along the canal, all the way, through Xiaoshan, into Lin'an, through Xiuzhou, Wujiang, Changzhou, Danyang, arrived in Zhenjiang, entered the Yangtze River, and then went up against the water and headed for Kuizhou.
At that time, the traffic was very inconvenient, he could only swim along the Yangtze River, while walking and playing, from summer to winter, when passing through the Xiling Gorge of Yiling in early December, to today's Sanyou Cave to play, he swam a lot, picked up the steps, went down the stairs, went to the xia prison creek next to the saw a pool of clear spring, so he took off the gourd on his body, took the water to the cave above to boil tea, and went to the villagers on the side to ask for some local vegetables, so he tasted tea, drank alcohol, wrote poetry (here wrote the famous poems such as "Twenty-eight Rhymes of the Three Tour Caves under the boat under the prison creek"), and left "the sun in the bag to spread the world." , not a famous spring that does not fit to taste". Later, in order to commemorate him, the locals built a restaurant here, so it was named Fang Weng Restaurant.
Fang Weng Restaurant is located in the cave on the cliff, if you want to enter, you need to go through a cliff suspension boardwalk about 50 meters long, the outside seems to be very small, but after entering the restaurant, you find that the area inside is very wide, there are circular lamps hanging on the item, and the inside is warm in winter and cool in summer, which is very special.
Some friends may say that there are not many cliff restaurants and cliff hotels in China, but there is only one cliff cave restaurant, and there are not many in the world, it is one of the nine cliff cave restaurants in the world, and cave restaurants and bars in Puglia District, Italy, Ali Barbour's Cave Restaurant in Kenya, Alux Restaurant & Lounge in Quintana Roo, Mexico, La Gruta in Tihuacan, Mexico, and Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, USA, are equally famous.
The food inside is also very local, the most famous of which is the original fat fish, this fish is the special name of long-snout abalone in Yichang, it is fat and moderate, the meat is tender, the meat is delicious, there is no intermuscular thorn, the soup is mellow, moist and refreshing, and it is the top product of freshwater fish. Su Dongpo, a great writer of the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem praising "the pink stone head is still boneless, and the snow white pufferfish is not a medicine person".
It is said that the way to eat the original fat fish was recorded as early as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and local officials dedicated it to the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, which is said to be "a famous fish sent in a thousand miles, and the royal seat is precious". The fat fish of Fang Weng has been rated as "Yichang Top Ten Famous Dishes" and "Chinese Famous Dishes". In addition to the original fat fish, you can also eat authentic Yichang specialties such as Three Gorges River fresh, ground roll skin, red cabbage heart, Tujia sausage, etc., and you can eat well at about 100 yuan per capita.
Eat on the cliff, please close your eyes and imagine the same, under the foot is a steep cliff cliff, outside the window is the rushing Yangtze River and the beautiful Xiling Gorge, you can hear the natural sound of birds and flowers, you can also hear the waves lapping at the riverbank, you can also hear the three gorges bungee jumping on the other side of the scream, while enjoying the temptation of Yichang cuisine, while feeling the stimulation of the foot flowing clouds, how a cool word?