Longjing Shrimp English: Longjing Shrimp

Longjing Shrimp is a special famous dish in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It belongs to Zhejiang cuisine - Hangbang cuisine. Longjing tea is named after it is made with shrimps. After this dish is cooked, the shrimps are white and tender, the tea leaves are green, the color is light and elegant, and the taste is delicious and refreshing.

Dish History

Tea has been used in dishes since ancient times. According to "Tea Fu" of the Tang Dynasty, tea is "the essence that nourishes rice and vegetables, and attacks the greasy taste of meat."

According to legend, in the late Qing Dynasty, chefs in Anhui were already using tea leaves such as "Quantu" and "Eagle Claw" to stir-fry river shrimps.

Gourmet Gao Yang once mentioned in "Ancient and Modern Food": "Weng Tonghe created a Longjing shrimp dish, which is fried shrimps with West Lake Longjing tea, which is really worthy of the Pengfang fish."

It is said that Hangzhou chefs were inspired by Su Dongpo's poem "Looking to the South of the Yangtze River", "Let's try new tea with new fire, poetry and wine take advantage of the years", and selected Mingqian Longjing new tea and fresh river shrimps with "green color, fragrant fragrance, sweet taste and beautiful shape" Cooked.

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