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Where is the famous dish of chicken stewed fish

Chicken stewed fish" is a Jiaodong specialties, Yantai Local Cuisine Association as the 2004 "Gold Medal Famous Dish".

According to legend, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong Li Shimin sent troops to the east to conquer Goryeo, and a large number of people camped in Dongying Village, and did not receive orders for several years, the soldiers will be established, and there are Dongying Village, Xiyang Village. West camp grazing chickens, specializing in eating chicken and mutton; East camp fishing and crabbing people, especially good at fish soup.

Legend has it that in the Song Dynasty there was a lay monk to the village of West Camp, a lot of chicken, eat the rest will be loaded into the bag, the next day to the village of East Camp and a bowl of fresh fish soup, the monk will be yesterday's chicken into the fish soup with the food, that is, the feeling of freshness is incomparable, the monk sang: "West Camp chicken dry, East Camp fish scurrying, chicken and fish soup, the day of the first soup! ".

Later, perfected by generations, constantly enriched, the formation of the present "chicken stewed fish" specialties, and the development of the characteristics of the store.