“It’s too many, not too many!” Kong Yiji made Xianheng Hotel famous all over China, and Shao-style famous dishes became a popular “food trend” for tourists coming to Shao to taste the ancient city’s food culture. . As a result, traditional Shao-style dishes such as braised pork with musty dried vegetables, deep-fried stinky tofu, and wine-soaked dates became more and more popular as they were eaten.

First, start with a plate of fennel beans, sip Tai Diao wine, and then you can have a great conversation, savoring the aroma of the wine while you are slightly intoxicated. The drunken shrimps are on the table, and they are extremely fresh. This may be due to the effect of Tai Diao. They are delicious and warm, and the warmth is sweet. Fried stinky tofu can be served as a pre-meal snack to satisfy your stomach. The shell is crispy, hot in the mouth, and the aftertaste is smelly and fragrant. It is definitely the signature among signatures.

As for the Shaoxing dish of roasted pork with dried vegetables, it can be said to be the most famous local home-cooked dish in Shaoxing. In addition, sauce-based dishes are also famous, such as soy sauce duck, soy sauce goose, pickles, etc. Many traditional Shao-style dishes that may seem tacky in the eyes of Shaoxing people have now become the “hot pastry” of Shaoxing’s popular diet. All local restaurants in Shaoxing regard these famous Shao-style dishes as their "master dishes". Dishes worth trying include: white pheasant chicken, silver bells, shrimp oil-soaked chicken, pearl mango fish, braised pork with dried vegetables, moldy amaranth stems, moldy qianzhang, frozen meat, braised meat, bad chicken, drunken crab, etc. .

Recommended restaurants include:

Xianheng Hotel, address: No. 179, Lu Xun Middle Road

Lu Xun’s Hometown Hotel, address: the east entrance of Lu Xun’s Hometown

East Lake Hotel, address: within the East Lake Scenic Area

Rong Luchun Hotel, address: No. 389 Jiefang North Road

Overseas Chinese Hotel, address: No. 69 Xinhe Lane

Tongxinlou Restaurant, address: No. 432 Jiefang North Road

Juyuan Restaurant, address: No. 37 Shengli Road

Agricultural school cafeteria: famous for its large bowls of dishes. The dishes are mainly Shao style. You can also eat many Shaoxing specialty snacks here, such as eggplant with rice and bayberry with soju. Address: Touhe River Intersection, Xinjian South Road, Shaoxing City

Qiushi Small Restaurant: Taking Shaoxing special dishes as its signature, it is low-priced and good-quality. Address: Touhe River Intersection, Xinjian South Road, Shaoxing City

Special Snacks

Shaoxing Old Wine Shaoxing old wine has many varieties, including Yuanhong wine, Jiafan wine, Shanjiujiu wine, Xiangxue wine, and Huadiao wine. Among them, Guyue Longshan brand Jiafan wine and Shaoxing Huadiaotan wine are the most famous.

Shaoxing fennel beans are a kind of drink that is always available in almost all hotels in Shaoxing all year round. They are made from dried broad beans, fennel, cinnamon, salt and edible kaempferol. Greenish yellow. The skin is wrinkled, the bean meat is soft and chewy, and the flavor is sweet.

Shaoxing fermented bean curd is called "mold tofu" by the locals, and is also known as "su Zharou". The pieces are square and angular, the texture is crispy and delicate, and the taste is salty and delicious, without losing the traditional brewing style.

Shaoxing mustard greens Shaoxing mustard greens are divided into three types: dried cabbage, dried rapeseed and dried mustard greens. The most delicious mustard greens are dried mustard greens. For superior quality. It tastes delicious and appetizing. In summer, use moldy dried vegetables with a handful of dried bamboo shoots to make soup, which has the functions of producing body fluids and quenching thirst, relieving heatstroke, preventing sunburn, and restoring physical strength.

Shaoxing fragrant cake is one of the eight tributes to the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty. It has long been known as the "Fragrant Cake to Beijing". Grind refined white japonica rice into rice flour, add an appropriate amount of traditional Chinese medicine cloves, amomum villosum, angelica dahurica, cardamom, anise and ground edible spices, then mix with pure white sugar, mix into the powder and shape it, bake it on a white charcoal fire. become.

Torreya has the functions of resolving phlegm, quenching thirst, clearing the lungs and moisturizing the intestines, eliminating hemorrhoids, etc. The torreya fruit coating can also repel roundworms, so there is no need to remove the coating when eating. There is something special about eating torreya. There are two "eyes" on each torreya. When eating, you don't need to bite open the shell. You only need to press the "eyes" with your thumb and index finger, and the hard shell will crack.

Pingshui pearl tea has a round and tight shape, green color, rich fragrance and long-lasting brewing. It is praised by tea lovers as "the first tea in Jiangnan".

Keqiao Dried Tofu is one of the Chinese flavors of five-spice tea. It is red in color, jade-white in texture, tender, tough but not hard, fragrant and fresh.

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Shaoxing food guide, come to Shaoxing tens of millions of times You can’t miss Shaoxing old wine. The history of winemaking in Yue can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. Shaoxing old wine is brewed using traditional and unique techniques and the unique lake water. It combines beverages, medicinal uses and seasonings. It is the best rice wine in China.

Shaoxing has a wide variety of old wines, including Yuanhong wine, Jiafan wine, Shanshu wine, Xiangxue wine, Huadiao wine, etc. Among them, Guyuelongshan brand Jiafan wine and Shaoxing Huadiaotan wine are special wines for state banquets. Won multiple international gold awards.

As for the Shaoxing dish, roasted pork with molded dried vegetables, it can be said to be the most famous local home-cooked dish in Shaoxing. In addition, sauce-based dishes are also famous, such as sauce duck, sauce goose, pickles, etc. There are also fennel beans, which are closely associated with the character Kong Yiji in Mr. Lu Xun's works, and have long become a well-known local snack in Shaoxing.

There are many restaurants in Shaoxing such as Xianheng Hotel (No. 44 Lu Xun Road), Lanxiang Restaurant (No. 1 Shangda Road), Tongxinlou (No. 87 Jiefang North Road), Juyuan Restaurant (No. 37 Shengli Road), etc. "Time-honored" high-end restaurant.

Shaoxing Food Guide:

Drunk Crab

"Drunk Crab" is said to have been created by a Shaoxing master who worked in Anhui Province.

At that time, there were many crabs on both sides of the Huaihe River, but the local people did not know how to eat them. Their crops were damaged and they were unable to drive them away, and they were very frightened. The master proposed to the state official to encourage the people to catch them and hand them over to the government. He then prepared many large tanks, salt and rice wine to swell the crabs, and then sold them to various places. Shaoxing commonly called them "Huai crabs".

"Drunk crab" is improved on this basis. It is refined through crab selection, crab raising, brine making, soaking, pickling and other processes, paying attention to the production cycle and consumption period. It has the characteristics of fragrant meat and fresh taste.

Drunk River Shrimp

"Drunken River Shrimp" originated from the folk, and they have the habit of making their own food in spring and autumn. Mr. Lu Xun wrote about "drunken shrimp" in "Ma Shangzhi Diary" and "Answer to Mr. Youheng", saying that a plate of drunk shrimp is "alive" on the table. "The fresher the shrimp, the happier the person who eats it will be." The more enjoyable you are.”

This dish uses fresh male shrimps produced in Jianhu Lake, mixed with Shaoxing wine, southern milk juice, etc. Its characteristics are that the bright meat is separated, crispy and tender, fragrant and mellow, and uniquely interesting.

Yue Chicken in Clear Soup

"Yue Chicken in Clear Soup" is made from Shaoxing's famous specialty "Yue Chicken".

Shaoxing was the former capital of the Yue Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Yuewang Tower was built on the east side of Wolong Mountain (today's Fushan). According to legend, the Yue chicken was originally a flower chicken specially used for the entertainment of emperors and concubines. Later it was exported to the people. After careful breeding and pure breeding, it drank water from two springs a day (namely, "Longshan" and "Longshan" near Taiqingli on the east side of Wolong Mountain). Mengquan ("two springs"), which preys on insects in the foothills, has gradually become an excellent edible chicken species. Folks often use it to stew and eat it.

According to legend, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty traveled south of the Yangtze River and visited the side gate of Shaoxing. It was noon and he felt hungry. He walked into a villager's house and asked for a meal. When the country woman saw that it was a visitor from afar, she slaughtered a chicken, put it in a big bowl, and put it on the rice rack. When the water boiled, the rice was cooked, and the chicken was stewed. Dip the chicken in soy sauce, bite the bones and suck out the marrow, and drink it all. Qianlong ate it with gusto and praised it full of praise. After returning to Beijing, I still couldn’t forget it.

In October 1933, Liu Yazi and his wife came south to Shaoxing. After tasting it, they summarized the characteristics of "Yue Chicken in Clear Soup" in eight words: "Thin skin, tender meat, loose bones, and fresh soup."

Baoji

Shaoxing is a famous historical city rich in rice wine. For thousands of years, it can be said that "every family in the farmhouse has home-made wine, and the aroma of wine is everywhere on the post road." Every winter brewing season, every family brews their own old wine.

Yue chicken is regarded as a nourishing dish in Shaoxing. People rub the chicken with salt, wrap it with gauze, and then marinate it with distiller's grains for a few days. This will not cause the chicken to deteriorate, but also add wine to the chicken. Fragrance smell.

Taste: salty, fresh, mellow, and rich in aftertaste. It is famous for its salty, fresh and savory taste.

Roasted pork with molded dried vegetables

When traveling to Shaoxing, you must try roasted pork with molded dried vegetables. This is the most famous local home-cooked dish in Shaoxing. It is fragrant, tender, oily and not greasy. It has the pastoral flavor of Jiangnan water town.

Recommended restaurant: Xianheng Hotel

Nao Liu Shrimp

Shaoxing wine is famous both at home and abroad for its mellow texture and fragrance. Lees is a by-product of wine. Its taste is mellow and fragrant. Cooking food with sake lees has a long history and unique flavor.

"Bao Liu Shrimp" uses fresh river shrimp cooked in the glutinous rice juice and becomes soft and tender. The shrimps are white and tender, and the aroma of the glutinous rice is attractive to the appetite. It is included in the "Chinese Famous Recipes".

Dried herring

Shaoxing custom is to buy fish every winter, dry it and make it into dried fish, which can be given as gifts to relatives and friends, or enjoyed by oneself. Historically, it has been Listed as tribute.

The "dried herring" is made from herring produced in Yangcha Lake in Shaoxing, which is salted and dried in the sun. It is made with distiller's grains so that the aroma of the wine can be integrated into the dried fish. It is durable, does not change flavor, and is full of strange aroma. , its characteristics are ruddy meat color, fragrant wine aroma, tender and delicious, oily and delicious, which is the top quality among cold dishes.