What to eat in Hangzhou in the summer traditional food

Lixia rice

Hangzhou people also have the custom of eating "wild summer rice" in the summer. Children and teenagers in groups beg for rice and meat from neighboring families. Fava beans on the ground, bamboo shoots to their digging, and then go to the field with stones set up pots and stoves, self-burning white food, known as eating "wild summer rice" or "summer rice". This custom is compared to beggars, thought you can avoid disaster in the old days, the countryside with red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans, mung beans and other five-color beans mixed with white round-grained rice boiled into "five-color rice", after the evolution of the Japanese soybean meat boiled on glutinous rice, vegetables with amaranth yellow fish soup, said to eat "Lixia rice

The "Rixia Rice" is a dish of yellow fish soup with amaranth.

Wu rice

Hangzhou custom on the day of summer there are eating Wu rice and bird rice cake custom. It is said that the standing summer to eat Wu rice, will not resist summer, can get rid of wind and poison, Wu mosquitoes do not dare to bite.

Lixia Cake

It is said that if you eat Lixia Cake, you will not be able to resist summer, not thin summer. At the beginning of the summer cake is made of malt, the era of scarcity of supplies, so adults and children are particularly loved. And now the production of Li Xia cake is actually the kind of shortcrust pastry, slightly smaller than the average Soviet-style moon cake, with filling, often bean paste or fruit, crisp flavor, four or five wrapped into a tube. Summer season to such traditional food gifts to friends and relatives to express the wishes of blessing, gift light sentiment. Therefore, the summer cake has been very popular with urban and rural residents.

Peas

Shelled peas shaped like eyes. Ancient eye disease is common, people in order to eliminate eye disease, summer to eat peas to pray for a year of eyes like fresh peas as clear, disease-free.

Suzhou summer traditional food

Suzhou place has "summer see three new" proverbs. The "three new" refers to newly ripened cherries, plums and wheat. People first with these "three new" ancestor worship, and then live people taste. Su custom summer also eat sea snails, gluten, white bamboo shoots, chestnuts, salted duck eggs, green fava beans. Each hotel on the day of summer to the store's old customers to send wine, soju, do not take the pennies, the summer is called "feed festival".

Three shrimps in the breeze

Old Suzhou and those who know how to eat know that the so-called three shrimps in the breeze is the shrimp brain, shrimp roe and shrimp, plus the pad in the three shrimp under the lotus leaf. Traditional Suzhou dishes, the first course is certainly shrimp, and in what season to eat what dishes and is the most sophisticated place in Suzhou, now the lake shrimp have seeds, summer shrimp brain and pomegranate-colored things, the chef called shrimp brain, three things and the summer lotus leaves together composed of a famous dish in Suzhou: the breeze three shrimp.

Three shrimp noodles

Three shrimp noodles, that is, shrimp, shrimp brain, shrimp three shrimp on the body of the best things, after cooking, made into a topping, the process of its production is very cumbersome, the taste is really fresh eyebrows fall off. Among Soviet-style soup noodles, the three shrimp noodles belong to a more elevated way of eating, and are available every summer in a limited number of noodle shops (such as Yu Hing Kee), and at a hefty price.

Watermelon chicken has been a local favorite in Suzhou for four or five decades, but not many people know about it because it can only be eaten in the summer and must be cooked and eaten on the same day, and can't be stored or carried around. Watermelon and hen **** steamed, the melon's fragrance into the chicken, chicken and can maintain the original tenderness, sophisticated shopkeeper will be carved in the watermelon skin carving, extremely delicious and ornamental.

Zhenjiang summer traditional food

Zhenjiang place has "summer taste eight new" food style. This "eight new" is cherry, new bamboo shoots, new tea, new wheat, young beans, Yanghua radish, anchovies and fish (yellowtail). Among them, anchovies are the most valuable. The first tide of shad is sent to the court of the tribute, the second tide of shad by the rich and powerful to get to go to the gluttony, the ordinary people to taste and eat anchovies has been three tides after the anchovies.

Wuxi summer traditional food

Three fresh points of three fresh, tree three fresh, water three fresh. Ground three fresh beans, amaranth, cucumber, tree three fresh cherries, loquats, apricots (a said to be plums, apricots, cherries, but also said to be plums, cherries, toon head) water three fresh sea snails, puffer fish, anchovies (said to be anchovies, pomfret, yellowtail, but also said to be anchovies, silverfish, crabs fish).

Which to taste the ground three fresh is the most common. Some places also have the custom of eating moldy tofu in the summer, saying that if you eat moldy tofu, you will not have bad luck.

Traditional summer food in Changshu

People in Changshu taste new foods in the summer, and there is a saying of "nine meat and thirteen veggies." The nine meat refers to the fish, which is the most popular fish in the world. Nine meat" refers to anchovies, crabs, salted fish, salted eggs, sea snails, elk duck, pickled fresh, brine shrimp, cherry meat and pomfret bream." Thirteen vegetarian" refers to cherries, plums, wheatworms (new wheat kneaded into thin strips and cooked), like bamboo shoots, broad beans, thatched needles, peas, cucumbers, chicory bamboo shoots, grass, radish, roses, pine flowers.