Zhejiang cuisine is mainly light and sweet, and so is a friend's house. Eggs and corn are almost daily meals every morning.
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People in Hangzhou generally don't cook breakfast. Only when there are guests at home will the host family start cooking. Hangzhou people are also very hospitable, and breakfast dishes are well prepared.
However, the taste is still weak. Whether it's fried loofah or dried radish, fried cucumber looks like a very sweet dish, and so does red bean porridge.
Friends in Hangzhou say that red bean porridge is also the most common breakfast food for Hangzhou people.
lunch
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After breakfast, my friends and I went to Hangzhou and returned home for lunch at noon. After all the dishes are served, I finally understand why netizens will say that Zhejiang is a gourmet desert.
It's too light.
A fried bitter gourd looks like a cold salad, and its color is still green. I took a bite and tasted it. It's so bitter that my mouth loses its flavor in an instant. Drinking water is bitter.
I am used to eating Sichuan cucumber, but I have tasted cucumber in Hangzhou, which is sweet and unaccustomed. Although a table was rich and full of eight dishes, my aunt was still very attentive, but I only ate cold kelp and pepper.
dinner
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Hangzhou is near the sea, and Zhejiang people like seafood very much. At dinner, my aunt cooked two servings of seafood, a bowl of cucumber and a dried celery.
Unlike eating seafood in Sichuan restaurant, Hangzhou people like to eat it directly, without any seasoning, and pursue the fresh taste of seafood. The taste of the prawn is sweet, but it is still light.
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This is my three meals a day at a friend's house in Hangzhou. After watching three meals a day in Zhejiang, some netizens said that they finally understood why they were called "gourmet desert" by netizens.
In fact, people say that Zhejiang is a gourmet desert, and it is more of a teasing mentality.
The main reason is that the taste of people in Hangzhou and Zhejiang is too weak, which leads many people to travel to Zhejiang or Hangzhou, but they can't taste the local food, and the taste is too weak, which makes people who are used to Sichuan and Hunan cuisine disgusted.
Consumers' tastes are getting heavier and heavier, but they have the impression that there is no food in Zhejiang.
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In the eyes of many netizens, hangzhou dishes's taste is light, heavier than sugar, too sweet, or sweet and sour, which makes many people feel ambiguous when they don't like it.
On the other hand, Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine, which have heavy tastes and are good at seasoning, are increasingly loved by netizens all over the country. At present, in major shopping malls, Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine account for half of the country, while Hangzhou local cuisine is actually very few.
Even grandma's house has become a fusion dish, a large part of which are Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine, but there are not many dishes with light local flavor in Hangzhou.