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The story of Hangzhou food

Dongpo meat:

When Su Dongpo was an official in Hangzhou, the West Lake was flooded. He mobilized tens of thousands of migrant workers to dredge the lake port and dig long embankments to restore the beauty of the West Lake. It can also store water to irrigate fields. The people called this embankment Su Embankment. At that time, the people were grateful to Su Dongpo for doing good things for the local area. They heard that he liked to eat braised pork. During the Spring Festival, they all gave him pork invariably. Su Dongpo accepted the pork and asked his family to cut the meat into cubes and bake it according to his own method and give it to the people. It was delicious and thus Dongpo Pork was born.

Xinyi bundled fragrant hoof began in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang had a close relationship with Butcher Wang when he was staying at his uncle's house in Shenju, Xinyi. He always loved to eat Butcher Wang's bundled fragrant hoof every time he came back from herding cattle

< p> made the fragrant hooves. Later, when Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he ordered the king’s butcher to go to the palace to make fragrant hooves for his consumption. In order to avoid the homophony of "pig" and "Zhu", it was changed to bundled fragrant hooves. Since then, After that, the bundled fragrant hoof became a famous dish in the palace. At the same time, it was also widely spread among the people. It has always enjoyed great honors and has a good reputation to this day.