Hangzhou's traditional famous dishes: The most recommended "West Lake Fish in Vinegar" is a special dish among Hangzhou's famous dishes.
Today, the most famous place for cooking West Lake vinegar fish is the century-old restaurant "Louwailou" at the southern foot of Gushan Mountain.
West Lake Vinegar Fish, also known as "Uncle and Sister-in-law's Treasure", is said to have come from the ancient time when the sister-in-law cooked a bowl of fish with sugar and vinegar for her brother-in-law.
When choosing grass carp of moderate size, it is best to cook it in clear water first and control the heat.
After serving, pour sweet and sour sauce over it.
The finished dish has bright red color, fresh and tender meat, sweet and sour taste, and a slight crab flavor.
?Secondly, "Hangzhou Sauced Duck" is carefully made from fat ducks that were raised and matured in that year. It is marinated first and then sauced. Its meat is red in color, aromatic and oily, and full of aftertaste. It is a delicious dish to accompany wine.
The duck is marinated first and then sauced. The meat is jujube red in color, aromatic and oily, salty yet fresh, and rich in aftertaste. It is a traditional famous dish in Hangzhou.
?Then there’s the “dry-fried bell”, which is made by wrapping minced tenderloin meat in high-quality tofu skin, cutting it into inch-long pieces, and deep-frying it.
If you wrap it with minced bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms and mashed potatoes, it becomes a "vegetarian bell" that vegetarians love.
?"Dongpo Pork" is a dish made of thin-skinned and tender meat stewed in famous wine. It has a bright red color, a mellow and juicy taste, is crispy but not broken, and is fragrant and glutinous but not greasy. It is a traditional famous dish in Hangzhou.
?The following are the special snacks of Hangzhou: Chicken Crispy, Durian Crispy, Nestle Bird's Nest, Ma Qiu Wang Gang Hui Bamboo Shoot Tip Shrimp and Shrimp Dumplings, Southern Song Dynasty Dingsheng Cake Bean Paste Buns, The World's No. 1 Papaya Cake, Huijuan Ham, Dried Bamboo Shoots and Old Duck Noodles
Fried Sydney Pear · Pianer Sichuan Noodles Crispy Taro Cup · Fried Rice Cake with Mud and Garlic Chen Shengji Crossing the Bridge Rice Noodles · Cured Claypot Rice Rainbow Crystal Ball · West Lake Honey Emperor Colorful Flower Custard Snow Pear Fruit · Gold Medal Carrot and Crab Roe Soup Buns · Walnut Jellied Green Onions
Buns of cypress·Meal bag with three-threaded gnocchi·Crystal Jade Dumplings Hangzhou-style durian cake·Crispy water chestnut cake and bean-flavored mochi·Hollow pumpkin cake Liu's corn sesame oil tea·Nine Surnames Reunion Almond Crisp·Spicy spinach blood glutinous rice Mingliang Shengjian
Bao·Dahua Crispy Cake Prince Maijiao·Guifei Songhua Cake Xinfeng Snacks·Braised Beef Noodles Hangzhou, referred to as "Hang", is the capital of Zhejiang Province. It is located on the southeast coast of China, in the north of Zhejiang Province, at the lower reaches of the Qiantang River and at the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
A provincial-level city, it is the political, cultural, educational, transportation and financial center of Zhejiang Province, one of the central cities of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, a city in the Greater Bay Area around Hangzhou Bay, a node city in the Yangtze River Delta Ningxia-Hangzhou Ecological Economic Belt, and an important electronics hub in China.
One of the business centers.
As of 2017, Hangzhou has jurisdiction over 10 districts, 2 counties, and 1 county-level city, with a total area of ??16,596 square kilometers, a permanent population of 9.468 million, and an urbanization rate of 76.8%.
Hangzhou has a history of more than 2,200 years since it was established as a county in the Qin Dynasty. It was once the capital of the Wuyue Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty.
Because of its beautiful scenery, it is known as "Paradise on Earth".
Thanks to the convenience of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and treaty ports, as well as its own developed silk and grain industries, Hangzhou was once an important commercial distribution center in history.
Later, relying on the opening of railway lines such as the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway and Shanghai's import and export trade, light industry developed rapidly.
Since the new century, driven by high-tech companies such as Alibaba, the Internet economy has become a new economic growth point in Hangzhou.
Hangzhou has many cultural and historical sites, and there are a large number of natural and cultural landscape relics in and around the West Lake.
Among them, the main representative ones are West Lake culture, Liangzhu culture, silk culture, tea culture, and many stories and legends passed down to become representatives of Hangzhou culture.