Longyou is an ancient county with a history of more than 2240 years. It is one of the earliest 13 counties in the history of Zhejiang Province, with profound historical and cultural precipitation. However, my initial intention is to focus on the food here, because I know that Longyou County has local specialties such as Longyou Hair Cake, Longyou Steamed Bread, and "three heads and one palm". This trip must be tasted, unambiguous!
I came to Longyou two days before the "Eleventh" holiday, thinking of giving myself a holiday in advance and staggering the tourist season. How perfect. But I didn't expect people to be worse than the sky and the weather was not very good. It rains very little, so I can't go to many natural attractions, so I can concentrate more on food. The first stop, I came to Mu Hong Town, the first batch of characteristic towns in Zhejiang Province. The night view here is super beautiful, and there is also a special night market food street, which is definitely not to be missed!
In the gourmet night market in rosewood town, I found that almost every stall was very popular. Bought the largest number of meatballs, and they were robbed as soon as they were out of the pot. The taste is really special. Although it is in the scenic spot, the price is not expensive at all, only ten yuan each.
After eating enough snacks, I packed the rabbit head, duck head and duck's paw and took them home for midnight snack. "Three heads and one palm" is my favorite snack in Longyou, and it is precisely because of this spicy and delicious feature that Quzhou is named "Little Sichuan". "Three heads and one palm" is not just a kind of food, but a general term for rabbit head, duck head, fish head and duck palm. I checked the origin of "three heads and one palm" in Quzhou, and there are different opinions. As a foreign tourist, I won't delve into it. The most important thing is delicious! Moreover, in Quzhou, both high-end hotels and roadside food stalls can find the figure of "three heads and one palm", which shows that it is one of the representatives of Longyou and even Quzhou food culture.
The snacks in the night market are still unfinished. The next day I left Mu Hong Town and came to Longyou County. My friend and I found the number one local restaurant on the well-known review software. After entering the door, we felt that we had come to the right place, because there were many award-winning plaques at the entrance, and one in the upper left corner said "Top Ten Most Popular Special Restaurants". Real foodies understand that the prizes given by many organizations may have moisture, but they must be true if they want to be affirmed by the people. It is also an old saying: "Gold cups and silver cups are not as good as the reputation of the people."
The interior of the restaurant is quite large, and the kitchen is semi-open. Visitors can order while watching the dishes, and then send them to the kitchen for processing. Because of the length of the article, a person who is "difficult to choose" will tell you about three dishes that I think are very distinctive in the store! Anyway, I must order when I enter the store!
First, the old duck pork belly pot, this dish is on the food program of Zhejiang Satellite TV, so the store also strongly recommends it. The old duck is crisp and tender, the pork belly is crisp, the soup is rich and delicious, and the rice is also very good. Especially the pork belly, because it is pig's viscera, it has no taste and the taste is very elastic.
The second is the fat fish in the reservoir. When I go to a place, I always like to eat local ingredients, so there will be no high transportation insurance fee and the freshness will be better. The chubby fish produced in the local reservoir only needs 39 yuan/kg, which is spicy, different from the milky fish soup in Qiandao Lake, and has richer and more delicious taste.
Third, it must be Longyou's cake! A city that loves spicy food, one of the representative foods is the staple food cake, and it has been made into a landmark product of chinese national geography. The color of the finished product is as white as jade, and its biggest feature is that it is fermented by adding a proper amount of glutinous rice wine during the production process, which has a soft and glutinous taste and a sweet aftertaste. Because "making a cake" is the homonym of "Gao Fu", it has the auspicious meaning of "making a cake every year and being safe all the year round". There is also a circle of Longyou steamed buns around, and the steamed buns here are also very different. There are fillings such as dried bamboo shoots and diced meat, and the opening at the top is different from that of steamed stuffed bun, which also means "perfect"
There are far more dishes to eat in this meal, so I won't go into details one by one. To sum up the delicious food in Longyou, many snacks have certain geographical indications, which are really not available outside Longyou. There is also the spicy taste of Longyou cuisine, which is very suitable for my stomach! If you like food as much as I do, you must come to Longyou!