If you have friends in Hangzhou recently, you can buy some Hangzhou specialties to go home and recommend some Hangzhou snacks. Let's take a look at Bianshao's related specialty information.

: Hangzhou specialties

1. Soy sauce duck

Generally soy sauce duck should be selected about 2 years. This kind of duck has thin skin and bones, and the meat is firm and does not contain fatty duck oil. The resulting duck in sauce is full in appearance, evenly distributed in the oil, and the meat is amber-colored, tender and delicious.

2. Salted Chicken

Salt_chicken is also one of Hangzhou people's favorite flavors. Some people use local chicken at home, while others use three-yellow chicken at home. Salt water chicken can be steamed or cut into pieces and made into a steamer with vegetables, mushrooms and vermicelli. It's best for cold winter family dinners.

3. Wool Pickled Chicken

Pickled chicken is savory and fresh. It has a history of more than 100 years in Pingyao and Jingshan. Chickens grown in bamboo forests are slaughtered, dried and pickled, and then can be cured with rice straw, hung in a cool and ventilated place, and can be eaten until the Spring Festival. The pickled chicken absorbs the special flavor of the rice straw, which is tender inside and crispy outside, and the bones have a salty taste.

4. Soy meat

Soy meat may look dark, but steamed and cut, absolutely crystal clear. It fills your mouth with sunshine and memories of home.

5. Sausage

Sausage is also the "hard currency" of the New Year. The flavor is delicious, mellow and rich, the more you chew, the more fragrant. When a pot of greasy smooth sausage in front of you, the feeling of happiness is not to make you salivate?

6. Dried Fish Meal

Dried fish is an important item in Hangzhou's New Year's list. In Renhe Sanbaotan, every household dries herring, reflecting the expectation of a "year's surplus"! At New Year's time, when guests come over, they steam the dried herring, add some sliced ginger and cooking wine, full of New Year's flavors!

7. Fish Balls

"Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan" and "A Year of Plenty", the old Hangzhou people celebrate the New Year with fish balls, a delicacy that is almost indispensable. Those unassuming old fishball stores would have long lines at the foot of the year.

8. Rice Cake

New Year's Cake, New Year's Cake, grows taller every year. Handmade rice cakes sent from the old countryside are sticky, chewy and have the flavor of rice. It can be stir-fried with sugar, boiled in soup, braised and deep-fried both as a New Year's treat for guests and as a gift for the year.

9. Hair cake

Congratulate yourself, rich. How can you miss such auspicious cakes and soft cakes on New Year's Eve? It's just simple hometown cake, fried up with a different flavor.

: Hangzhou Snacks

1. Frozen Rice Candy

Heat the stove, cook the maltose, stir-fry and stir-fry a piece of hot frozen rice candy is pressed into shape, cut into strips, take a bite, "Ka-ching ka-ching", lips and teeth.

2. Frying oil cups

On New Year's Day, every family will start making oil pots. First, slice the diamond-shaped raw flour and mix in a certain amount of sesame seeds. After making a flower, you can fry it in the pot. In the countryside, this is called "boiling oil dish". This squeaky "boiling oil dish" is a sign that everyone's life will be prosperous in the coming year! Speaking of New Year's goods, dried fruits are also essential "snacks" during the holidays. Peanuts, melon seeds, walnuts, so many varieties, how to choose?

3. melon seeds

There are many kinds of melon seeds on the market, such as cream, green tea, five spice plums. The layers are endless. Different flavors of melon seeds have different colors of appearance, green, white, red and so on. The flavor is good, but with additives, it is best to buy the original flavor melon seeds. This melon seeds skin white stripes distinct, melon shells on the indentation is obvious, touch will not be greasy, eat the flavor of melon seeds.

4. Peanuts

Peanuts are most susceptible to mold and produce harmful aflatoxin. Eating too many of them will make you dizzy and vomit. Before you buy, you can taste the peanuts. Be cautious of buying peanuts with pungent moldy smell and don't buy too many at a time to prevent moisture deterioration.

Walnuts

Dried walnuts are rich in amino acids, which can be used for skin care and anti-aging. Many merchants use hydrogen peroxide or ammonia to soak walnuts in advance in order to make their skins whiter and shinier. This kind of walnuts treated with chemicals, eat more will cause respiratory diseases, resulting in decreased resistance. Remind everyone that the surface of fresh walnuts have black spots, grain is obvious, the smell is slightly woody.

6. dried mushrooms

Dried shiitake mushrooms are white or too black in appearance, have a musty smell, and are easy to break with a hand pinch, indicating that this mushroom is likely to undergo special treatment and should not be purchased for consumption. Really dry and dehydrated high quality shiitake mushrooms are intact in appearance, dark brown in color, not wet to the touch, completely dry, and retain the unique aroma of fresh shiitake mushrooms. This type of mushroom is healthiest when soaked for soups and stir-fries.

7. Giant Algae

High-quality dried kelp will have a layer of white frost on the surface, gray-green in color. Touch the surface of the kelp with your hand and it will not be sticky.

8. White fungus

Shoddy silver fungus is generally divided into two kinds, one is smoked with sulfur, looks white translucent crystal, pungent smell; the other is damp and moldy, sticky to the touch, darker or even black, not suitable for purchase. The color of high-quality silver ear is generally yellowish, and the root is free of impurities. The soaked ear flower is large and loose, tough, and the meat is full and chewy.