Braised meat with moldy dried vegetables is the most representative specialty of Shaoxing. The fat but not greasy pork belly is carefully stewed and crispy, and a bowl of dishes is served. Gravy is mixed with the unique aroma of dried mushrooms, and the taste is wide open. Braised meat with moldy dried vegetables can be cooked in almost every hotel, and Shaoxing hotel is the best.
Fried stinky tofu Fried stinky tofu is a must. Unlike the stinky tofu in Changsha, the stinky tofu in Shaoxing still retains its golden appearance, crisp outside and tender inside. People who like to eat will find it very fragrant. Don't forget to put some sauces on the outside, which are divided into sweet sauce and hot sauce. The stinky tofu in Shaoxing is all over the street, so I'm not afraid I can't find it. General 5 yuan/portion
Moldy amaranth stalks have three smells in Ningbo and three smells in Shaoxing, namely stinky tofu, stinky amaranth stalks and stinky wax gourd. Visitors who come to Shaoxing for the first time rarely accept the taste of moldy amaranth stalks, and their eating methods are also very unique. Just like eating sugar cane, you can't eat the skin, you can only suck the juice from the stem. Juice tastes salty, and it's really the local people's favorite meal. If you are not used to eating, you can go to the restaurant and order a moldy amaranth stalk to make tofu, which is also a common way to eat moldy amaranth stalks.
If Shaoxing bamboo shoots come to Shaoxing in the season when a large number of fresh bamboo shoots are on the market in winter and spring, don't forget to order a delicious food with bamboo shoots as raw materials. Fresh and smooth slices of winter bamboo shoots, braised bamboo shoots with rich colors, and strips of winter bamboo shoots with bad sauces appear in turn, all of which are authentic home-cooked flavors.
In the dead of winter, people on the streets of Shaoxing can often see all kinds of sauced foods such as sauced chicken, sauced duck and sauced fish, among which sauced duck is the most popular. The meat of the sauced duck is firewood but not greasy, and the rich sauce flavor permeates into the duck meat, which makes people want to stop and eat unsatisfied. There are also vacuum-packed sauced ducks for sale in specialty stores.
Drunken crab is a famous drunken crab that marinates fresh raw crabs with yellow wine and various seasonings. Really, as the name suggests. The cooked crabs you usually eat are different. Drunken crabs are fresh and tender, with rich meat flavor and fragrant wine and sauce, and it is better to go with ginger to get rid of crab cold.
Bad chicken looks like boiled chicken, but it also retains the original flavor of chicken. But the difference is that bad chicken is chicken marinated with distiller's grains, which is more fragrant than boiled chicken, and it is accompanied by fresh chicken, which is the unique taste of Shaoxing.