Hangzhou is the real food desert.

The specific reasons are as follows: 1. Many friends who are located in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai and have similar tastes will find it strange.

To us, it is obviously a city with delicious food everywhere.

Hangzhou's food has been criticized for two main reasons. First, the dishes are light, and many people who are used to eating heavy flavors say they are not used to it. Second, Hangzhou cuisine, as one of the eight major cuisines and one of the important schools of Zhejiang cuisine, has been constantly popular in recent years.

Innovation has led to many diners not liking heavy flavors.

2. As the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou has become more and more popular in humanism since the Tang and Song Dynasties, and its food life has become increasingly rich and colorful.

Bai Juyi and spring bamboo shoots and fish, Su Shi and Dongpo meat, Song Gaozong and Song Sao fish soup, West Lake vinegar fish, Jia Sidao and Yipinnan breast meat, etc., not to mention the sweet-scented osmanthus and fresh chestnuts with the background of mythical stories, there is another saying,

That is Longjing shrimp, Wulin steak, etc.

Behind every Hangzhou dish, there is likely to be a celebrity from Hangzhou.

Just for these dishes, you have to go to a few old local restaurants to eat them.

However, many food guides on the Internet recommend traditional snacks such as Sichuan cuisine, pan-fried buns, steamed dumplings, and green onion buns, or new Hangzhou cuisine restaurants that are chain-operated and like "innovation" but have not been established.

Therefore, it is understandable that Hangzhou is criticized as a food desert.

Some netizens said that they went to Hangzhou on a business trip and ate a bowl of Sichuan on the first day, tried Dongpo Pork on the second day, and ate McDonald's and KFC almost every day in the following week.

It is also common to see foreign netizens complaining on food delivery software.

Complaints about the poor taste of Hangzhou food. Hangzhou food is expensive and tastes bad.

When I left, I didn’t forget to say with emotion: Hangzhou is really a food desert.

Compared with Liuzhou’s snail noodles, Chongqing’s hot pot, Changsha’s stinky tofu, and Northeast’s Guobao Pork.

When outsiders come to Hangzhou, they just visit the West Lake, taste Longjing, eat jealous fish, and try the "Hangzhou Xiao Long Bao" originally belonging to Shengzhou.

There seems to be no dish in Hangzhou that can take other cities by storm.