Changzhou locals treat us, and they will definitely go to the traditional dishes, which are called "Lanling eel", also known as "Lanling crisp" and "cleaning". Once fried, it shrinks rapidly, yellow and crisp, sweet and sour. Fry the main ingredients, cook the auxiliary materials and put them on the table for eating. The dish made in this way is crisp but complete in appearance. Tracing back to its source, Changzhou cuisine is a branch of Huaiyang cuisine system. The main course is almost the same, but the Changzhou chef has improved. They attach importance to "freshness", so authentic Changzhou cuisine should be "long taste". The following dishes have been improved into Changzhou specialty dishes.
lion's head, as we all know, is a delicious food in Changzhou. The traditional practice is to use pork with seven fats and three fats. People in Changzhou eat lion's head in four seasons, river lion's head in spring, lion's head in summer and crab powder lion's head in autumn. Eat winter bamboo shoots and lion heads in winter. Among them, the lion's head is used for one of the fish meat of squid, which is one of the "three fresh foods of the Yangtze River" (swordfish, mud carp and squid). Fish is fat and thin. After cutting into large particles, they are also made into small balls, horseshoes and fat scorpions. Half soup plate.
stir-fried shrimps. The famous Huaiyang cuisine has also improved this point. Shrimp is selected from melon-shaped shrimps. Peel, rinse, drain, salt and powder them by hand, and then put them in the refrigerator for one night. Then stir fry, basically without adding seasoning, until the grain is full, crystal clear, shrimp and sweets. Master Changzhou must cook this dish, ask the diners if they are ready to eat, and then burn oil and fry. Put some shovels on the pot. The whole process will not exceed half a minute. Fried shrimp is a common dish. This dish is usually called hard dish. In the process of material selection, sizing and production, it cannot be mashed, so it can be fried into white jade, smooth and refreshing, smooth and pure. Here comes the shrimp.
In recent years, under the impetus of people with insight in Changzhou catering industry, "Old Changzhou Cuisine", "Old Changzhou Flavor" and "Old Changzhou Characteristics" have been sought after by everyone.