Roasted meat with red lobster sauce is a home-cooked dish in Shaoxing, and it was a tribute in Qing Dynasty. Dice pork belly, add red milk, onion, ginger and other seasonings, and stew the meat thoroughly. After cooking, the color is red and bright, oily but not greasy, and delicious. It's a famous dish in Shaoxing, suitable for children. It is said that children will be very lucky and bright in the future after eating "roasted meat with red lobster sauce".
"Babao Gusao Duck" is a famous dish in Shaoxing, which has an unusual origin. Once upon a time, there was a scholar named Zhang in Shaoxing, and his father worked as an envoy in Hangzhou yamen. Zhang Xiucai fell in love with a girl who cooked in the restaurant next door. This girl is not only outstanding in talent and appearance, but also famous for cooking good dishes.
Zhang Xiucai goes to the girls' restaurant for dinner every day. If you can't eat the food cooked by girls for a day, it will be tasteless.
One day, the envoy returned to Yangxun Bridge to visit his mother, and my sister-in-law secretly invited the girl to come over to cook and give a banquet to entertain his father.
After the envoy tasted the "Babel Duck", he praised it greatly. He couldn't help asking about the girl's life experience. It turns out that this girl is also a scholarly family. Later, due to the decline of his family, he was forced to wander the rivers and lakes and cook at Yangxunqiao Hotel.
Father was very moved after hearing this and immediately agreed to their marriage. After marriage, the husband is virtuous to his wife and filial to his children. Since then, this blind "Aunt Babel Duck" has become one of the main dishes of Yang Xunqiao and even Shaoxing folk "having children".
"Spiced tea eggs" is one of Shaoxing's famous dishes. "Having children and eating eggs" is a traditional custom in Shaoxing countryside for thousands of years.
Another famous dish at the banquet is "stewed old duck with ham". Shaoxing area has always been densely covered with river networks and rich in products. Since ancient times, ducks have been raised locally. In the old society, every household had the custom of "planting rice and raising silkworms to make wine". There is a folk custom that "raising wine is better than raising ducks", that is, using distiller's grains to raise ducks is not only low in cost, but also fat and tender. This vegetable juice is rich and fresh, which can nourish and strengthen the body for the elderly. Young people are full of energy after eating. The dish of "shaving wine" has the meaning of "health and longevity, prosperity, and more moist days".
There is also a pot of "fragrant dried mixed Malantou". Malantou is a local wild vegetable. In spring and summer, the fields are covered with beaches and slopes. When people get off work, they choose some from baskets and go home for dinner. Malantou grows in the ground, green is attractive, but a little bitter. After the housewife takes it home, she cooks it in boiling water first, and then squeezes out the water to taste the bitterness; Then the dried coriander and Malan are finely cut, and spices such as sesame oil and monosodium glutamate are added. This dish is delicious and popular with diners. The old man said that eating this dish with "shaving wine" is to wish the children diligence and prosperity in the future and good luck all their lives.