In Lin 'an, Star Restaurant can be said to be one of the best "old shops" and one of the few Jianghu shops that "upgrade" the hotel.
The owner of this shop is Su Xinmin. 1987, he opened a small shop with a facade on Xinmin Street in Lin 'an Old Street, called Xinmin Restaurant. "The boss surnamed xinmin, store name xinmin street, address xinmin street. I don't know how much ostentation and extravagance there is. In fact, it's just a shop with small breasts. Although it is called a restaurant, it is actually similar to a restaurant in Hangzhou. " Su Xinmin said with a smile: "Seven years ago, I moved to Huqiao on Shanggan Road. With an upgraded version, I reversed my name' Xinmin' and renamed it' Star Restaurant'."
This old shop, which has been open for 2 1 year, has a fish head (formerly called "Xinmin Fish Head" and now called "Star Fish Head"), which is probably more famous than the boss Su Xinmin. The fish head is the clear water fish head in Lin 'an. It is made of more than 65,438+00 kinds of spices, chilli sauce and salted tofu by simmering for more than 30 minutes. The burning method is not special, but it is a taste that others can't imitate. On one occasion, eight Hangzhou guests ate four pots of fish heads here the first night, and then went straight here at noon the next day. Before they entered the store, they shouted "Fish Head! Fish head! "
In the "star" lineup of "star restaurant", salted pig eggs, star fairy chicken, braised turtle and braised fish belly with Chili are all very popular "stars".
2/ Mandarin fish has become a "home cooking" in many stores in Hangzhou.
At present, many restaurants in Hang Cheng have a "home-cooked dish"-osmanthus fish pot. But in fact, the earliest source of this dish is "Hong Bing Mandarin Fish" from Leping, Lin 'an.
This shop is called "Hotel" and its owner is Cao. It is located in Leping Township, Yuqian Town, Lin 'an City, at the foot of Baiyun Mountain, by the Fenshui River, far from the urban area of Lin 'an. From Hangzhou, you can take the Hangzhou-Guizhou Expressway as the exit and take the provincial highway 16 to Leping.
Every day, especially on weekends, diners from all walks of life come here from Lin 'an, Tonglu, Hangzhou and even Shanghai. A fish, two dishes of wild vegetables, and a few homemade cakes, although they are unremarkable, dozens of luxury cars will be parked at the door in good times, and a small shop will have a daily turnover of 10 thousand yuan.
Cao's mandarin fish is very particular: mandarin fish should be wild, with three kilograms in the early stage and four kilograms slightly shorter. If it gets bigger, the meat will get old. If it gets smaller, it will lose power in the plate. This kind of heavy mandarin fish is put into the fish basin for a while, and its head and tail are tilted high, just sticking out of the basin, and its shape is very vivid. In "Hong Bing Mandarin Fish", according to the taste of the guests, there are chopped duck intestines, shredded pork, five or six lake crab, green onions and onions, and a proper amount of peppers. Pepper is also very particular. It is the famous brand pepper in Lin 'an and Tonglu areas-Chaotian Seven Sisters pepper. This kind of pepper is yellow, spicy and has a strong flavor when it is fresh.
Cao said: "These ingredients are all ready. I will pour my own barrel bone soup in spring and summer, and sheep bone soup in autumn and winter. It tastes like stew on a big fire!" "After drinking this fish soup, the taste of other dishes will be completely weak, so eat fish with some side dishes."
This shop has been open for 17 years, and has never used an outsider, all of them are family members. Most of the raw materials used in the kitchen are also homemade. On the roof of the third hotel, there are sixty or seventy pig legs hanging on the stone pier, which is the wind meat for making mandarin fish pots. Just go to the roof and cut some every day. Even the water for cooking soup is the mountain spring that Cao's brother-in-law drives to Baiyun Mountain nearby every day. Cao Hongbing said that the water there was delicious and the soup in the pot was delicious.