Lychee Pork is made from pork.

Lychee Pork is a traditional dish from Fuzhou City and Putian City in Fujian Province, belonging to the Min cuisine family; the dish has a history of two to three hundred years. Because of the raw materials in the white water chestnut and cut into a cross flower knife of pork, after cooking because of the shape of the shape like lychee and named. The method of preparation is to graze the lean pork on the crucifixion knife, cut into diagonal pieces, because of the depth of graving, the width of the uniformly appropriate, after deep-frying curled into a lychee-shaped, accompanied by red lees, vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, wet starch and other seasonings that is ready.

The origin of lychee meat is also an allusion, according to legend, during the Tang Dynasty, there is a concubine, her hometown is the abundance of lychee in the Fujian region, as a result of many years away from home, the taste of lychee year after year, so will let the side of the cook's to do a and lychee similar to the delicious dishes, so there is this lychee meat.

Legend of lychee meat

Legend of the Northern Song Dynasty, Xianyou Fengting Cai Jing in the dynasty as an official, has been put Xian folk snack "lychee meat" offered to Sima Guang taste, was greatly appreciated. Cai Jing was Xining three years in the bachelor's degree, first for the magistrate, and then served as the Chinese scholar. At that time, it was Wang Anshi to implement the change of law, Cai Jing strongly advocate the new law, very much appreciated by Wang Anshi. But later Wang Anshi lost power, Sima Guang old party in power, Cai Jing immediately see the wind rudder to cater to the situation.

As Wang Anshi's beloved Cai Jing for many years, despite the full support of Sima Guang will Wang Anshi's new law abolition, but it is also difficult to eliminate Sima Guang on Cai Jing's younger brother to marry Wang Anshi's daughter as a wife of this matter of concern, has always thought that can not be reused this person. But in the courtroom for more than a decade, Cai Jing, even if the political can not take Sima Guang, can also start from other aspects.

We have heard that Sima Guang delicious, but the food of Cai Jing's hometown is unheard of, Cai Jing in order to take Sima Guang in one fell swoop, stayed in the Cabinet of Books for five whole days, remembered that his grandfather Cai Xiang had written a book of "lychee spectrum", may be able to find a wonderful recipe in it.