Hangzhou’s delicious specialties include: Longjing shrimp, Dongpo pork, West Lake vinegar fish, cypress wrapped with green onion, Wushan butter cake, etc.

1. Longjing Shrimp Longjing Shrimp is a famous dish in Hangzhou, with beautiful color and fragrant taste.

The Longjing shrimps are made from live large river shrimps and cooked with Longjing new tea produced around the Qingming Festival. The shrimps are white and tender.

The buds and leaves are green, fragrant, elegant in color and unique in taste.

2. Dongpo Pork Dongpo Pork is found in Zhejiang cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hubei cuisine and other cuisines, but each place is different. Dongpo Pork is very famous in Hangzhou. Some cook it first and then grill it, and some cook it first.

Some are steamed later, and some are simmered directly to collect the juice.

The main ingredients and shape of Dongpo Pork are similar. The main ingredients are half-fat and half-lean pork. The finished dishes are all neatly arranged mahjong pieces. They are translucent red and the color is like agate. Pick up a piece and taste it. It will be soft.

Not rotten, fat but not greasy.

3. West Lake Vinegar Fish West Lake Vinegar Fish is a famous dish in Hangzhou with a long history that can be traced back to the Song Dynasty.

West Lake grass carp selects West Lake grass carp as raw material. Before cooking, the grass carp is starved and raised in a fish pond for a day to drain the impurities from the body and remove the soil.

The heat requirements during cooking are very strict and must be mastered just right.

After the fish is cooked, a layer of hot sweet and sour sauce is poured on it, and the pectoral fins stand up. The fish meat is delicious and unique.

4. Chinese cypress wrapped in green onion "Chinese cypress wrapped in green onion" is a characteristic traditional snack in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

It has a long history and is also a famous local snack. Chinese cypress wrapped in green onion is a very unique snack. It is crispy on the outside and fragrant on the inside. It can be eaten in many local restaurants. Chinese cypress wrapped in green onion is made by wrapping fried dough sticks and spring onions inside.

Spring pancakes served with sweet noodle sauce and spicy sauce.

5. Wushan Butter Cake Wushan Butter Cake is a traditional snack in Hangzhou. It has a history of seven to eight hundred years. It is golden in color, with stacked layers of crispy cakes. The top is pointed and the bottom is round. It looks like a golden mountain and is covered with fine white sugar. It is crispy but not crispy.

Crushed, oily but not greasy, sweet and delicious, and crispy in the mouth.

Also known as "Dajiujia" and "Coir raincoat cake", it is known as Wushan's No. 1 specialty and has been passed down to this day.