1. Hangzhou’s specialty delicacies mainly include Longjing shrimp, Dongpo pork, West Lake vinegar fish, cypress wrapped with green onion, Wushan butter cake, Hangzhou cat’s ears, Zhiwei Xiaolong, Beggar’s Chicken, Dingsheng cake, and Pianerchuan.

2. Longjing shrimp.

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

Longjing shrimps are made from live large river shrimps and cooked with Longjing new tea produced around the Qingming Festival. The shrimps are jade-white and fresh and tender; the buds and leaves are green, fragrant, elegant in color, and unique in taste. After eating, they will clear your mouth and appetizer, and leave you with endless aftertaste.

The dish is one of a kind.

3. Dongpo meat.

Dongpo pork is found in Zhejiang, Sichuan, Hubei and other cuisines, but each place is different. Dongpo pork is very famous in Hangzhou. Some are boiled first and then grilled, some are boiled first and then steamed, and some are cooked first and then grilled.

Simmer directly to reduce 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.

4. West Lake vinegar fish.

West Lake Vinegar Fish is a famous dish in Hangzhou with a long history dating 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.

5. Wrap cypress with green onions.

"Hinner wrapped in green onion" is a traditional snack with Hangzhou flavor in Zhejiang Province.

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.

6. 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, with the top pointed and the bottom rounded. It looks like a golden mountain. It is covered with fine white sugar. It is crisp but not crumbly and oily but not oily.

It is 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.

7. Hangzhou Cat Ears.

Hangzhou Cat's Ear is a specialty food in Hangzhou and a famous local snack. It is actually a kind of noodles and is named because it looks like a cat's ear.

The noodle shape is like a cat's ear, small and exquisite, the ham is like agate, the chicken is like amber, and the soup is delicious.

This noodle dish is exquisite and unique, with diced ham like agate and diced chicken like amber. The soup is delicious and delicious.

It is said that this snack is related to Qianlong's trip to the south of the Yangtze River and the West Lake, and it became famous because of Qianlong.

8. Zhiwei Xiaolong.

Hangzhou Zhiweiguan's snack Zhiwei Xiaolong is very famous. When cooking, fermented white flour is used as the skin, and fresh meat, or fresh meat mixed with shrimps, or chicken mixed with minced ham is used as the filling. Special meat skin jelly is added to the filling to wrap it.

After being cooked, they are put into a special small steamer and steamed over high heat. They are called fresh meat small cages, shrimp meat small cages, and chicken fire small cages.

These steamed buns are juicy, fragrant and fresh, with thin and smooth skin but different tastes.

9. Beggar a rooster.

Beggar's Chicken has distinctive characteristics and is one of the famous dishes in Hangzhou. It is fragrant, the meat is white and tender, crispy and not sticky to the bones, and it does not bite your teeth when you eat it.

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a beggar who lived in the south of the Yangtze River. He was hungry and cold. His fellow refugees stole a little hen for him, but he was short of a pot and stove. So he wrapped the chicken in mud, roasted it in the fire, and peeled it off.

When eating, I unexpectedly found that the chicken was full of aroma and tasted very good.

10. The winning cake.

Dingsheng cake in the Southern Song Dynasty is a traditional snack in Hangzhou. Dingsheng cake started in the Song Dynasty and has been loved by the people of Hangzhou for thousands of years.

The outer layer of Dingsheng cake is made of refined fragrant rice and glutinous rice flour. The rice flour is fine and even. Inside is bean paste filling, with a small amount of sugar and osmanthus mixed in the middle. It tastes fragrant and glutinous, sweet but not greasy.

The freshly baked Dingsheng cake is white, tender and pink, still steaming, soft and fragrant, and sweet and glutinous in the mouth.

11. Pianerchuan.

Pian'erchuan is a famous noodle soup in Hangzhou. It is composed of pickled vegetables, bamboo shoots and lean pork. It is delicious and delicious.

It has a history of more than 100 years. It was first created by Kui Yuan Guan, a long-established restaurant in Hangzhou. It is characterized by the deliciousness of pickled vegetables and bamboo shoots, leaving diners with endless aftertaste after eating. Pian'er Sichuan noodles are moderately priced and have high nutritional value. They are the most popular among Hangzhou residents.

One of my favorite everyday snacks.