West Lake Beef Soup is a very famous traditional Chinese Han soup, an appetizing soup available in most hotels. West Lake Beef Soup is made with beef, eggs, mushrooms and other ingredients, very delicious. So do you know what cuisine it belongs to? This issue with me to go to Zhejiang cuisine culture to understand it.

Many people say that West Lake Beef Soup is very tasty, good taste, but many outsiders still do not know West Lake Beef Soup is a dish of which place, in fact, listen to the name to know, this is Hangzhou's dishes.

West Lake Beef Soup is a traditional dish of Jiangnan, belonging to the Hangzhou dishes, because it is fragrant and lubricated, fresh and delicious, often in advance on the table as a throat and appetizing soup. West Lake Beef Soup is also a favorite food of the common people. With only beef, eggs and mushrooms, it can be made into inexpensive and delicious soup, thus, West Lake Beef Soup is a very common family dish in folklore.

Hang Gang Cuisine, also known as Mizong Cuisine, is an important part of Han food culture, belonging to an important school of Zhejiang cuisine. It originated in the Southern Song Dynasty more than a thousand years ago. Hangzhou cuisine has a long history, and it constitutes the traditional Zhejiang cuisine with Ningbo cuisine and Shaoxing cuisine***.

Hangzhou cuisine is divided into two schools: "Lake" and "City Hall". The former uses fish, shrimp and poultry as its main ingredients, and specializes in stir-frying, stewing and stir-frying techniques, paying attention to the tastes of freshness, crispness and tenderness, and focusing on retaining the original flavor. The latter material to meat mostly, Hangzhou cuisine cooking methods to steam, braising, blanching, burning-based, pay attention to light oil, light pulp, light and fresh taste, pay attention to fresh and salty unity.

The taste of Hangzhou cuisine is mainly salty, slightly sweet, but not as sweet as Suzhou cuisine, and not as heavy as Shanghai cuisine, which is easy to be accepted. "Light" is a symbolic feature of Hangzhou cuisine, this feature is exactly in line with the trend of the development of dishes to "light". In addition, Hangzhou cuisine is light and calm, "grab flavor" element is not much, this feature makes it easy to absorb the essence of dishes from the north and south, so now Hangzhou cuisine is more like "universal dish", easy to win the favor of the north and south of the diners.