Many people will think I'm talking out of my ass if I say that "Yangzhou fried rice" is a Cantonese dish, but it is. Yangzhou fried rice was inspired by Yangzhou potpourri, and Guangzhou chefs skillfully used barbecued pork and shrimp as ingredients in the fried rice. Occasionally, "Yangzhou fried rice" is called "Guangzhou fried rice" because many people still like to put the name on the "master," which shows that Cantonese cuisine is constantly evolving.
Yangzhou --- many people know the city, "Yangzhou fried rice" but not "Yangzhou cuisine" is not well known. There are Yangzhou people in Guangzhou want to taste the flavor of their hometown, see the name of this dish, always try to call a taste, the results were greatly disappointed. Some Guangzhou people go to Yangzhou on business, the staple food called "Yangzhou fried rice", thought you can eat authentic, but it is difficult to defeat the manager of the restaurant and the chef, can not say "content".
In fact, "Yangzhou fried rice" in the "Yangzhou" is not the name of the place, but the name of the ingredients, refers to the "barbecued pork" and "fresh shrimp "The name is a combination of "barbecued pork" and "fresh shrimp", which is the name of a dish in Cantonese cuisine where these two are the main ingredients, such as Yangzhou scrambled eggs, Yangzhou noodles, Yangzhou vegetables far away, and so on.
Why these two flavors are linked to Yangzhou, many people do not understand. In fact, in the Guangxu period, Guangzhou has Huaiyang food store opened, the most famous of which is "Juchunyuan", which has a dish called "Yangzhou pot", with shrimp, barbecued pork and sea cucumber concocted rice coke, very famous. Guangzhou's chefs heard that also want to go to learn, the chef went to taste the chef, felt that the Cantonese cuisine does not have a potpourri, it would be better to change the potpourri into rice, or with barbecued pork and shrimp, a try is really good, but also more in line with the taste of the people of Guangzhou. Once launched in the market, it was a big hit. At that time, all restaurants launched Yangzhou fried rice. Since then, barbecued pork and shrimp as the material for the gradual increase in Cantonese cuisine, but in order to respect the "copyright", the two ingredients are still collectively referred to as "Yangzhou".