What kind of dish is Long Tigers?

Long Tigers is a Cantonese dish.

Long Tigers, also known as the leopard braised three snakes, dragon and tiger wind braised, chrysanthemum dragon and tiger phoenix, is known as the traditional dishes of Guangdong. Snake production dishes in Guangdong has a history of more than two thousand years, the local had an autumn wind carry on, only it is fat carry on, nourishing its time carry on the proverb, ancient times used to be as a palace delicacies. This product is a snake meat as the main ingredient of the soup dishes. Fine craftsmanship, a variety of ingredients, tender and smooth meat, exceptionally delicious. To thin crisps, lemon leaves and chrysanthemum petals to eat, the flavor is particularly special to fall and winter to eat the best.

In fact, this dish is said to have begun in the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, when a man named Jiang Kong Yin, born in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, was an official in Beijing. After returning to his hometown, he often studied cooking and wanted to create new famous dishes. One year, he did seventy birthday, in order to come up with a new dish for friends and relatives to taste, they tried to make dishes with snakes and cats, snakes for dragons, cats for tigers, because the two meet will fight, so the name is Dragon and Tiger.

Guangdong representative dishes

1, white cut chicken

White cut chicken is not only a classic Cantonese cuisine, but also a Chinese national specialty. White cut chicken was created in the Qing Dynasty folk hotel, chicken in the production process without seasoning white boiled and eat as you eat with the chop, so also known as white chopped chicken.

2, roast goose

Roast goose is a specialty of Guangdong Province, more than 700 years ago. The most famous Sham Tseng Roasted Goose is made with traditional techniques and aged deep wells, which looks golden red in color and tastes delicious.

3, braised pigeon

Braised pigeon is a traditional dish of Guangdong Province, is the pigeon first boiled, then drying, and then oil and become, eaten outside the crispy, tender, fresh and delicious. It is said that a pigeon is better than nine chickens, and the fine production process of braised pigeon coupled with the nutritional value of pigeon makes many people fall in love with this dish.

4, white burn shrimp

White burn shrimp is Guangzhou people's favorite dish, white burn means that the original fresh shrimp directly into the water directly into the boil, so that retains the shrimp meat, fresh, sweet, tender characteristics, eat when dipped in the sauce can be eaten.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia for the above - Leopard and Beaver Braised Three Snakes