West Lake Vinegar Fish is Huaiyang cuisine.

West Lake Vinegar Fish is a traditional Hangzhou famous dish, belongs to the Huaiyang Cuisine "West Lake Vinegar Fish" is Hangzhou's famous dish in the family dish. Nowadays, the most famous West Lake Vinegar Fish is the century-old restaurant "Louwailou" at the southern foot of Lushan Mountain. The West Lake Vinegar Fish, also known as "Sister-in-Law's Chuanzhen", is said to have come from a bowl of fish with sugar and vinegar cooked by a sister-in-law for her brother-in-law in ancient times.

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Choose the moderate size of the grass carp, preferably blanch in water first, to master the fire. Plated and drizzled with sweet and sour gravy. The finished dish is bright red color, tender meat, sweet and sour, slightly crab flavor. Features: "West Lake Vinegar Fish", is a traditional Hangzhou flavor dishes. Legend has it that in ancient times, there were Ning brothers, full of essays, living in seclusion on the shores of Xizihu Lake to fish for a living.

The local villain, Zhao Daiguan, saw Ning's wife's attractive appearance and wanted to take over, so he planned to kill her husband. The story is told by Song's brother, who is a member of the government, and is beaten up by the police. Song's sister-in-law advised his uncle to run away, and before he left, she cooked a fish from the West Lake with sugar and vinegar for him, encouraging him "not to forget the bitter and the sweet and the sour of the people". Later on, when he was awarded the title, he ate the sweet and sour fish dish at a banquet, and finally found his sister-in-law, who had changed her name and was in hiding.

So he resigned from his official post and resumed his life as a fisherman. Cooking "West Lake Vinegar Fish" generally choose the West Lake Kun fish as raw materials, cooking two days before the starvation, so that its intestinal debris, to remove the soil gas. After cooking, the fish meat is tender and beautiful, with crab flavor. 50s, this dish to the White Causeway on the Louwailou restaurant master Jiang Shuigen cooking the most outstanding.