Yangzhou Lion's Head is a classic traditional dish from Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, belonging to the Huaiyang cuisine family.

Shishitou is a very complex dish that requires marinating, stirring, deep-frying, braising and stewing before serving. Lion's head selection of fat and lean combination of minced meat after marinating and deodorization of its kneaded into palm-sized meatballs, put into the frying pan fried to the surface of the golden brown and then put into the pot of braised stew until cooked through can be.

To say that the earliest appearance of lion's head or in the age of Emperor Yang of Sui, is the Emperor of Sui Yang traveled to Yangzhou tasted, then the dish called sunflower chopped meat, sunflower meatballs, is to the Tang Dynasty, the Duke of Wei Jiaozhi in a banquet will be sunflower chopped meat renamed as lion's head.

Lion's head because of the traditional hand-cut meat, many seasonings with, so that the taste of this dish is soft and slippery, nutritious and healthy, especially braised lion's head is the main practice of lion's head nowadays, the color of the dish after braising is simply appetizing, the dark brown reveals a bright red, delicious.

The above reference? Baidu Encyclopedia - Lion's Head