浙菜 Zhejiang Cuisine

  • Dongpo Pork

  • Steamed Pork With Lotus Leaves

Zhejiang is located in the East China Sea, rich in delicacies and fish. Zhejiang cuisine is a local cuisine represented by four flavors Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing, and Wenzhou. Zhejiang cuisine uses a wide range of raw materials, paying attention to the fresh and reasonable collocation of raw materials, in order to complement the taste, and fully explore the deliciousness and nutrition of ordinary raw materials. Especially the lake and mountain flavor systems in Zhejiang cuisine, emphasize the season to ensure that the raw materials are fresh and fresh. Many water and mountain plants are rich in a variety of nutrients, which are very beneficial to health.

Zhejiang cuisine is famous at home and abroad for its rich and colorful cooking techniques. There are more than 30 categories of cooking methods commonly used in Zhejiang cuisine, including fried, fried, stewed, steamed, and fried 6 categories for good. Because of the material technique, pay attention to the coordination of the main ingredients, and taste changes, mainly light. The dishes are small and exquisite, delicious and tender, crisp and soft. Zhejiang cuisine is rich in cooking techniques, especially in the cooking of seafood fresh has its own unique taste, fresh crisp keeps the raw materials and true taste. Food forms pay attention to, exquisite and delicate, Qing Xiu elegant. The northern taste is sweet, the western taste is spicy, and the southeastern taste is salty.

Zhejiang is rich in products, so in the preparation of dish names for the four seasons fresh bamboo shoots, ham, mushrooms, mushrooms and green leafy vegetables, and other fresh things to accompany, at the same time, the clever use of scallions, ginger, garlic, Shaoxing wine, vinegar, and other condiments, to achieve the effect of fishy, mutton, smell, increase the effect of raw materials, remove the bad taste, increase the original taste of fresh ingredients.

The traditional famous dish "thin slices of ham" is of equal thickness, equal length, and uniform. Each piece of red and white is shaped like an arch bridge in the water town of South China. "Crab Stuffed Orange", a famous traditional dish of the Southern Song Dynasty, is steamed with crab and orange. It is colorful, sweet, and ingenious, and has a unique style.

Many dishes are rich in beautiful legends, rich cultural color is also a major feature of Zhejiang cuisine.

Representative dishes of Zhejiang cuisine: West Lake Fish in Vinegar, Longjing shrimp, Dongpo pork, Steamed pork with lotus leaves, Mrs. Song's Fish soup, etc.