Dongpo Pork, also known as Rolling Pork and Dongpo Stewed Pork, is a very famous dish, which is categorized in Sichuan and Zhejiang cuisines. It is also a special traditional dish of Meishan and Jiangnan.

1, according to legend Dongpo meat is Su Dongpo invented

According to the more authentic legend, Su Dongpo in Hangzhou as a governor, when in May and June, Hangzhou, Taihu Lake flooding, resulting in a large number of farmers' crops were flooded, and Su Dongpo took early and effective measures to reduce the Su Dongpo took early and effective measures to minimize the farmers' losses. Helped the people of Hangzhou through this most difficult period.

2, the location of the invention of Dongpo meat

And the peasants of Hangzhou heard that he liked to eat pork when he was in Xuzhou and Huangzhou, so they sent pork to thank him. And after Su Dongpo received these meats, he thought of what his hometown Meishan did for the meat, so he ordered the people to cut these meats squarely, then burned them until they were reddish red, and gave these meats back to these people, and everyone ate them and thought that this meat was tasty, fat but not greasy, and flavorful, soft, and tasty. In order to thank Su Dongpo, they called it Dongpo Pork.

Su Dongpo had been the governor of Xuzhou before he became the governor of Hangzhou, and in order to solve the phenomenon that there was a lot of pork in the area but no one would eat it. So he made his first attempt to distribute the meat to those people by making it into braised pork, which was not called Dongpo pork at that time.

3, the origin of the name of Dongpo meat

Until later when Su Dongpo was relegated to Huangzhou to do the deputy envoy of the regiment, he opened up his own land and planting is called Dongpo Jushi. He wrote his experience of making braised pork during his time in Huangzhou in a poem about eating pork, and that's when this braised pork came to be known as Dongpo.

In fact, Dongpo meat is most often called by the name of braised pork. In fact, Dongpo meat in different places it is not complete the same practice. However, the most important thing is the exquisite pork, and want to burn the pork red than can not be separated from the soy sauce. And Dongpo meat is really a very delicious dish.