The ten favorite home-cooked dishes of Zhejiang people are: West Lake vinegar fish, Dongpo pork, dry fried bell, West Lake water shield soup, pork wheat cake, braised bamboo shoots in oil, shrimp in Longjing, flower girl chicken and Song Saoyu soup.

1. West Lake Vinegar Fish

This dish uses the West Lake sole as the raw material. Before cooking, it is usually starved in a fish cage for a day or two to excrete the intestinal impurities and remove the earthy smell. The cooking temperature is very strict, and it can only be cooked properly in three or four minutes. After it is cooked, it is poured with a layer of smooth and shiny sweet and sour, and the pectoral fins stand up. The fish is tender and beautiful, with crab flavor, fresh, sweet and sour, and unique.

2. Dry-fry the bell

Cut the bean curd skin from Sixiang specialty into squares, roll it with stuffing made of pork tenderloin, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and Shaoxing wine, then cut it into 3.5 cm pieces, fry it in 5% hot vegetable oil until it is crisp, take it out, put it on a plate, and serve it with onion, sweet noodle sauce and pepper salt.

3. Braised bamboo shoots in oil

Cut the tender bamboo shoots unearthed before the Qingming Festival along the length, pat them loose, cut them into 5cm-long sections, stir-fry them with pepper oil, add soy sauce, white sugar, monosodium glutamate and fresh soup, boil them, stew them with low fire until the soup is thick, and pour sesame oil on them.

4. Dongpo pork

The main ingredient is half-fat and half-thin pork. The finished dishes are neatly packed mahjong pieces, which are red and bright, like agate. Pick up a piece and taste it, soft but not rotten, fat but not greasy.

5. The making method of pork wheat cake

is basically the same as that of ordinary home-cooked wheat cake, but it is slightly smaller. Take the lean meat and chop it to make stuffing. When eating, use three chopsticks, hold a chopstick in your left hand and hold the wheat cake in the plate, and take a pair in your right hand to pick it up. Dip in soy sauce and vinegar and serve.