1, Zhejiang cuisine representative: West Lake Vinegar Fish

This dish is said to be from the story of "Sisters and Brothers in Law Passing on the Jen": In ancient times, there were Song brothers living on the shore of Xizihu Lake, who lived by fishing. The local villain, Zhao Da Guan Ren, saw Song's sister-in-law's attractive appearance and killed his brother, and then wanted to harm his brother-in-law. Song's sister-in-law persuaded his brother-in-law to run away, and burnt fish with sweet and sour vinegar as a farewell gift for him, and asked him to "not forget the bitter sweetness of the people's bitter and sour place". Later on, when he got the honor to eliminate the violence and pacify the people, he tasted this sweet and sour fish dish at a party by chance, and finally found his sister-in-law, who fled in anonymity, and he resigned from the government and resumed his old business as a fisherman. Later generations passed on the story and imitated his method of cooking vinegared fish, and "West Lake Vinegared Fish" became Hangzhou's traditional famous dish. West Lake Vinegar Fish selection of live grass carp, after starvation 1 ~ 2 days, prompting it to exhaust the earthy taste, and the use of live killing now cooking, not with greasy dishes, color and lustre red, sweet and sour suitable for the fish meat, firm, fresh, smooth and tender, better than the crab meat, unique flavor.

2, Zhejiang cuisine on behalf of: Dongpo meat

This dish is said to be from the Song Dynasty great writer Su Dongpo's story. Song Yuanyou years (about 1090 AD), Su Dongpo as Hangzhou assassin, mobilized the people to dredge the West Lake, a great success, in order to reward the workers, instructed his family will be the people's gift of pork, in accordance with his summarized experience: slow fire, less water, the fire is enough to his self-beauty, cooking into a delicacy. The wine and Dongpo meat together with the miners, family members mistakenly wine meat burned together, the result is particularly flavorful and delicious meat, people praise Dongpo's person, and the unique flavor of the block of meat named "Dongpo meat".