What are the famous food of West Lake

Su Shi, also known as Su Dongpo, rumor has it that Dongpo Pork is the pork that was sent to Su Shi when he was governor of Hangzhou, and the people of Hangzhou learned that he liked to eat pork. And Su Dongpo will be these pork after cooking and share with the people. The dish was later named "Dongpo Pork".

Dongpo Pork is made of five-flower rib as the main ingredient, half of which is fat and half of which is lean, which is fat but not greasy, with the aroma of wine, which is very delicious. Its dishes thin skin and tender meat, red color, taste mellow juice, crispy and rotten but the shape is not broken. Slow fire, less water, more wine, is the trick to making this dish.

2, West Lake Vinegar Fish

West Lake Vinegar Fish, also known as uncle and sister-in-law Chuanzhen. This dish is sour and sweet. According to legend, when Uncle and Sister-in-law of the Song family were framed by evil people, Sister-in-law of the Song family allowed Song Di to escape and made this dish before she left, aiming to let him not forget the bitterness of the day when life was sweet. Later on, Song Di got the examination and punished the villain.

This dish selects the West Lake grass carp as raw material, and before cooking, it is usually first starved in the fish cage for a day or two, so that it can excrete the intestinal debris and remove the earthy flavor. After burning, pour a layer of smooth and oily sweet and sour vinegar, pectoral fins up, taste tender and sweet and sour, with crab flavor, meat Zi distinctive.

3, Song Sister-in-law fish soup

Song Emperor Gaozong boarded the imperial boat tour of the West Lake, the order of the chamberlain to buy turtles and fish in the lake to release, Xuanzhu in a woman selling fish soup Song Wu Sister-in-law, in the West Lake to sell fish soup for a living. Emperor ate her fish soup, very appreciated. From then on, Song Wu Sister-in-law fish soup has become a famous dish in the capital. Sister Song's Fish Soup is made by steaming Mandarin fish, removing the skin and bones, adding shredded ham, chopped mushrooms and bamboo shoots, and chicken broth and other condiments. The fish soup has a bright and pleasant color, is tender and lubricated, and tastes like crab soup, so it is also known as "Sai Crab Soup".

4, called the child chicken

According to legend, in ancient times, there is a displaced to the south of the caller, one day due to hunger and cold and fainted, difficult friend for him to steal a small hen but also suffering from the lack of pots and pans, the chicken wrapped up in mud into the fire in the simmering baked, peeled off the food, but accidentally found that the chicken aroma, taste excellent.

Later by the chef's continuous improvement, on the basis of traditional production methods to improve the selection of fat and tender chicken, bamboo Ruo shells, fresh lotus leaves package, the outermost layer of the package on the wine altar mud, the first fierce fire, and then changed to simmer into the fire. Ready to eat, fragrant, tender and delicious.

4, durian pastry

Durian pastry of the name of many people have been very familiar with the golden yellow tantalizing durian pastry to fresh durian flesh with soft and smooth filling, with layered, exceptionally fluffy, fine work of pastry, appetizing. After eating, the light durian flavor makes you feel like "durian" and forget to come back.

5, Nest bird's nest

Nest bird's nest name sounds fun, but do not do so simple, selected clarified flour, lard, salted egg yolk, quail eggs, fine sand and other raw materials, quail eggs, nutritious, salted egg yolk flavor, coupled with lard, fine sand is to make this snack never get tired of eating.

6, hemp ball king

Hemp ball king grains of sesame through the gloss, shaped like a balloon, shiny color, thin skin through the light, sweet and tasty, a come up to let people love. This can be eaten with care, to first break a piece of epidermis, so that the inside of the heat first through some out, or accidentally will burn the lips. The most thin layer of the skin is extremely crispy, the next taste of glutinous rice moist soft, and from time to time, uniform, light, sweet flavor