With people's living standards getting higher and higher, tourism has approached thousands of households and become an essential element in people's daily life. At the same time, in the process of playing, people have new requirements for understanding tourism, which is no longer just to meet the needs of seeing the scenery with their eyes. Experiencing local culture and tasting special food has also become an important demand, especially for the people. When conditions permit, tasting food is just the need for travel.

Chongqing's hot pot noodles, Chengdu's string of maocai, Shaanxi's mutton paomo, Guangdong's rice rolls barbecued pork, Inner Mongolia's hand-grabbed meat … each place has its own signature food, so what should we eat in the Northeast? Pork stewed vermicelli, chicken stewed mushrooms? Or pot-wrapped meat, sauce bone? In fact, in Yu Fan's view, in the northeast, there must be a fish feast in Chagan Lake to be enjoyable.

Chagan Lake, formerly known as Chagan Bubble, means "Chagan Naoer" in Mongolian, which means a white and holy lake. Most of them are located in the former Guoerluosi Mongolian Autonomous County in the northwest of Jilin Province, where Nenjiang River and Huolin River meet. Strictly speaking, it belongs to a dammed lake at the end of Huolin River. Rivers and swamps are dotted around this area, whitebait shuttles, water plants are fat and beautiful, and geese and ducks live together. The trees along the coast are lush, the fields are lush and picturesque. It was the fishing and hunting place of the emperors of Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties.

Chagan Lake is not only picturesque, but also rich in fish resources. Historically, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liao Taizu called it "Duckling", which was the fishing and hunting place of the Qidan nobles. From Emperor Sheng Zong of Liao Dynasty to the seventh emperor Tianzuo, they all came here to carry out the "Spring Bona" activities. Among them, winter fishing is easy to preserve and transport, so this ancient winter fishing method has continued to this day and has remained unchanged for thousands of years. Today, the wonders of winter fishing in Chagan Lake have been included in the national intangible cultural heritage list, and the whole fish feast derived from last year's winter fishing has also become an intangible cultural heritage.

The whole fish feast in Chagan Lake has become an intangible cultural heritage, not because of local hype, but because people living around for generations are good at making various dishes with fish as the main material. In addition, there are many kinds of fish and dishes used in the production, so it is called "all-fish feast". Its production skills occurred and developed with the local fishery production. It is one of the folk skills left over from Liao and Jin Dynasties and can become an intangible cultural heritage.

The whole fish feast in Chagan Lake is a cooking process of stewing, frying, frying and cutting originally created by the former Guoerluosi people on the basis of the wild fish in Chagan Lake. It is made of dozens or even dozens of wild fresh fish in Chagan Lake, cold, hot, raw and cooked, soft, tender, crisp, fragrant and crisp. It has distinct regional characteristics and a very heavy cultural heritage.

The traditional "fish feast" has been continuously innovated and developed through the inheritance of the people in the lake area and the development of famous chefs in the catering industry. Now, according to the different seasons, the types and quantities of fresh fish used in Chagan Lake fish banquet are not the same, but the taste of the four seasons is very delicious.

This is the Chagan Lake Fish Banquet we had at the Khan Palace Resort Hotel near Chagan Lake today. There are more than a dozen dishes on the whole table, most of which are related to fish. The main course is a big plate of chubby fish, as well as delicacies made of snapper, grass carp, carp, crucian carp, lake shrimp, whitebait and snakeskin fish.

If it is difficult to see the size of the fish simply by looking at the plate, then it is easy to tell whether the picture above is set off by a beautiful woman's hand. The biggest chubby fish is half a meter long and weighs more than ten kilograms. Grass carp and carp are not small. Although it is not as exquisite as southern food in appearance, its taste is mouth-watering. Local friends told us that the fish feast in Chagan Lake not only fully inherited the heritage of Liao and Jin Dynasties, but also absorbed modern cooking skills. Moreover, it is rich in local characteristics, contains national characteristics, has great public taste and high nutritional value, and is a local traditional banquet that can represent Jilin cuisine and even Northeast cuisine.

Have you tried the fish feast in Chagan Lake?