What's delicious to go to Shaoxing?

Shaoxing also has many little-known snacks, such as steamed pork with lotus leaf powder, fried snails, stone tofu, silver ingot fish, stinky tofu, fried chicken with shrimp, moldy tofu, braised pork with dried vegetables, radish cake, throat steamed bread, vegetable rice cake and so on.

Shaoxing is a water city with many rivers. In downtown Shaoxing, Wu Peng's boat crossed Huizu Bridge, Yu Jia Bridge, Miaoxia Bridge and Wangling Bridge for the second time, and saw Cangqiao Zhijie in the distance, as if he had returned to "Lu Xun's hometown" in a misty rain.

Fennel bean is the most famous snack in Shaoxing. Thanks to Kong Yiji's nine coppers in Lu Xun's novels to buy two bowls of wine, he bought a plate of fennel bean in front of the counter of Xianheng Hotel, and he also studied four ways to write the word fennel. Jin Gyeong, the production director of Kong Yiji Restaurant, said that fennel beans are made from broad beans, soaked in clear water and cooked slowly with slow fire until they are ripe. Delicious, tender and cheap, it is the most popular snack for Shaoxing people. Local snacks common in Shaoxing restaurants.

In Shaoxing, broad beans are called arhat beans. After they are separated, they sit inside like a arhat. Fresh peas are also called "fresh broad beans" in the local area, because when peas are on the market, it is just sericulture season. Zhou Bo, a native of Shaoxing, said that in the old days, Shaoxing paid attention to "drinking with ten beans", and the dishes in ordinary pubs included fresh arhat beans, fresh broad beans, fresh edamame with shells, fennel beans, salted green beans, fried beans, orchid beans, sprouted arhat beans, boiled beans with bamboo shoots and chicken gizzards.

We ate salted green beans and chicken gizzards and drank wine in the shop in front of Lu Xun's former residence. Salted green beans were not soaked in advance. When cooking, add sugar and salt instead of fennel and cinnamon. The skin goes up, but the beans don't. After cooling, the bean shell shrinks and wrinkles, the bean color is green, and there are salt flowers outside. If you pay attention, you will add some licorice powder, and the taste will be stronger. Chicken gizzards are made of soybeans, cooked with soy sauce and slow fire, often with dried bamboo shoots to enhance the flavor, and then baked until semi-dry, with a tough taste and the flavor of chicken gizzards.