Cixi Bayberry: Bayberry is a unique specialty of Cixi City, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Cixi City is located on the south bank of the Hangzhou Bay Cross-sea Bridge, facing Jiaxing Haiyan from the north to the south through the Hangzhou Bay Bridge. The territory is "seven divided by two mountains and one water".
Known as the "Hometown of Bayberry in China", artificial cultivation has been in progress for more than 1,300 years, and wild bayberry has a history of more than 7,000 years.
Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, once said: "Fujian and Guangzhou lychees and Xiliang grapes are not as good as Wuyue bayberry."
Bayberry has good pharmacological effects.
Bayberry contains a variety of trace elements, which are extremely beneficial to the human body.
It can also help digestion, diuresis and kidneys.
Eating a few bayberries in summer can relieve summer heat and relieve boredom.
Its pharmacological effects are recorded in Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica".
Red paste crab: Red paste crab is a traditional snack in Ningbo, Zhejiang. It is bright red in color, fresh, salty and tender.
Put cold water in a container, add salt, white wine, green onions, and ginger seasonings and bring to a boil. After cooling, add rice vinegar to make a thick salty brine. Then tie the green onions into a knot and soak them with the ginger slices in the cooled water.
Inside, wash the crab with cold boiled water, first remove the cover, remove the gill feathers on the sides and the gizzard in the crab cover, and finally remove a small hexagonal white mass in the middle of the crab's abdominal cavity (this thing is called Dahan
), remove the crab claws, smash them into pieces, put them into the cooking water, and marinate them for 8 hours.
Red paste salty gun crabs are made from wild swimming crabs in the East China Sea. They are strong and have red paste. There are small holes on the crab's back shell, and the red paste can be seen. The meat is plump.
Red paste crab is one of the most representative Ningbo dishes.