A delicious flavor, dog meat with giant sauce.

Dog meat with catfish sauce is the most famous traditional dish of Han nationality in Pei County, Jiangsu Province. Catfish sauce dog meat is sauce red, bright in color, delicious and mellow, tough but not stiff, rotten but not greasy, which can be described as good in color, smell and taste. Pei county has therefore become a famous "hometown of dog meat" in ancient and modern times. Pei county dog meat is mainly cold food, so it doesn't need to be cut with a knife, and it tastes particularly good when it is torn by hand.

Fan Shi dog meat, also known as year-old dog meat, is commonly known as Pei County dog meat. Cooked dog meat in the market is brownish red, with bright color, fragrant smell, delicious taste, tough but not stiff, rotten but not greasy, which has high nutritional value and medicinal function of helping digestion. Compared with other places, the dog meat in Pei County has unique color, fragrance and taste. Yu Xin in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao in the Ming Dynasty and other celebrities all enjoyed tasting "dog meat with wine".

Catfish sauce dog meat has a history of more than 2 100 years. According to historical records, Fan Kuai, a famous soldier under Liu Bang, made a living by killing dogs when he was young. Liu bang has a deep friendship with him and often eats meat for free, which makes Fan unhappy for a long time. In order to avoid Liu Bang, Fan moved the meat stall to xia yang (now Xiazhen, Weishan County, Shandong Province). When Liu Bang heard the news, he rushed there. When the river was blocked, he had no money to take a boat. Suddenly, a giant salamander swam from the middle of the river and carried Liu Bang across the river.

When Liu Bang found Fan Kuai, Zheng Fan was worried that dog meat would be neglected. Liu bang grabbed dog meat and ate it. After Liu Bang ate it, people rushed to buy food. Later, Liu Bang often crossed the river to eat it. Fan Kuai was very angry, so he killed it and cooked it with dog meat. I didn't expect dog meat to smell better. It was sold out. Up to now, dog meat has been cooked in soup, and its flavor has not diminished. Therefore, Pei county dog meat is also called "giant sauce dog meat".

Liu Bang became the director of Surabaya Pavilion and was very angry when he learned that Fan Kuai had killed the old catfish. He took all Fan Kuai's knives for cutting dog meat and ordered him not to use them in the future. Fan Kuai had no choice but to tear up the dog meat and sell it by hand. Therefore, the eating method of "Pei County dog meat does not need a knife" has been passed down to this day. In BC 195, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang put down the rebellion of Ying Bu, the king of Huainan, and passed through his hometown Pei County, where he hosted a banquet to entertain the villagers and drank it with dog meat, and wrote "Song of the Great Wind": "The wind is flying, the weaver girl returns to her hometown sea, and the brave men are everywhere!" Pei county dog meat is famous all over the world for its song of strong wind. After Liu Bangding ruled the world, Fan Kuai passed the annual juice soup to his nephew and passed it on from generation to generation.