Wentai Vermicelli: According to legend, when Sun Jian (father of Sun Quan, also known as Wentai) was fighting pirates in Qiantang when he was seventeen years old, there was a severe drought and all the soldiers were hungry and thirsty.
Sun Jian then ordered farmers living in the mountains to prepare food.
The farmers were poor and only had sweet potatoes and vermicelli at home, so they mixed them together and cooked them for Sun Jian and his men to eat.
After everyone tasted it, they found it extremely delicious.
At this time, suddenly the wind and clouds surged, heavy rain poured down in an instant, and the severe drought suddenly abated.
Since then, Qiantang and Fuyang have had the custom of eating vermicelli for good weather.
Ingredients: sweet potato vermicelli, shredded pork, shredded celery, dried fragrant shreds, and shredded red pepper. Image description: The texture is smooth, very chewy, and the dish is transparent. Guotai Tofu: Sun Quan’s mother Wu Guotai was frugal in her life and was good at raising her children.
She is also good at cooking a variety of home-cooked dishes. It is said that she made "Kouta Tofu" by picking up a few edamame beans on the ground.
This dish uses aged pig's feet to stew tofu and simmers it over a slow fire, making it crispy, mellow, tender and delicious.
Ingredients: aged pig's trotters, stone-ground tofu, simmered for two to three hours, best served in a pot.
Jiangdong Yuanbao: Allusion: According to legend, Wu Guotai, the mother of Sun Quan during the Three Kingdoms period, loved to eat pig's claws. It was her birthday. At that time, a chef from Jiangxi brought back local special honey when he returned to his hometown to visit relatives. He took the front section of the pig's claws and made it into the shape of an ingot, and simmered it over a slow fire to celebrate.
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This dish has thick juice, delicious flavor, crispy aroma and mellow aroma, and is very popular among the imperial concubines and Sun Quan.
Ingredients: pig paws, honey, rock sugar, stock, soy sauce, refined salt, MSG, green onions, and ginger.
Cooking method: Pour the pig's feet in water (to make the meat elastic), use a casserole with onions and ginger as the bottom, take the stock, honey, and rock sugar, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer over low heat.
Gluten Square: Gluten is a unique food in Longmen, an ancient town.
According to legend, it was a delicacy specially prepared by Sun Quan’s mother for her son before he went on an expedition.
After Sun Quan became emperor, he would serve this as a fine delicacy to entertain officials during every festive occasion.
Descendants of Sun Quan have inherited the family's traditional recipe and refined it by hand into gluten with a unique flavor. It has been handed down for more than a thousand years and is a good product for high-end banquets, family banquets and gifts for relatives and friends.
Varieties include: Braised Three Fresh Glutes, Gluten Pork Trotters Pot, Gluten Old Duck Pot, Fried Gluten, Cold Dishes, etc.