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<\/p>\nHangzhou Dishes are usually are slightly on the sweet side and less oily and salty. Some of the must-have dishes are Dongbo Rou or Dongbo Meat, Xihu Vinegar Fish or West Lake Vinegar Fish, Longjing Prawn, and Hangzhou Duck.<\/p>\n
Hangzhou is famous for its signature dish called Dongpo Meat which is one of the traditional famous dishes in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. According to legend, the poet-writer called Su Dongpo of the Northern Song came to Hangzhou to work as an official post. Su Dongpo invented the method of making this dish by first braised the pork, added in yellow wine to make the red braised pork, then slowly stewed it on low heat. The meat used is the pork belly and when it was served in front of our table, it was a whole chunk of meat that is not yet been cut. It looks super pretty before the cutting was done. The below picture is after cutting so it did not look as pretty.<\/p>\n
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In Beijing you have the roasted Beijing duck, in Hangzhou, you need to try the soy-sauce duck Hangzhou style. The duck used is less than one year old so it is usually tender. The sauce is the key and tastes little sweetness. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n
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The name sounds interesting, right? When the chicken was served at our table, it was wrapped in big lotus leaves. When the lotus leaves were open up in front of us, we can smell the aroma from the lotus leaves. The process involves a whole spiced chicken in lotus leaves wrapped in mud and roasted in an open fire. When fully cooked, the mud forms a hard shell around the chicken and cracked open before revealing the chicken inside. This dish takes up to 6 hours to prepare so it is best if you can try it in the Hangzhou restaurants.\u00a0 In West Lake Hangzhou, you find lots of lotus leaves and this dish represents Hangzhou well.<\/p>\n
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As you know Longjing tea is famous in West Lake Hangzhou and this is another famous dish that uses prawn. The main material as you can see is the prawn and Longjing tea. The Longjing tea leaves made the whole dish very special with the elegant fragrance from the Longjing tea.<\/p>\n
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This is a common dish in China, not a signature in Hangzhou. You can have this almost everywhere in China. We ordered this dish for some fiber intake and also the names sound cute. \u5a03\u5a03 Wawa means a little small baby and we ordered just for the sake of the cute name. Tasted good as the vegetable is cooked with chicken essence and topping of ham.<\/p>\n
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This is another Hangbang (Zhejiang province) cuisine, which has the main ingredients of beef and green pepper. The Hangzhou pepper is slightly spicy and goes well with beef.\u00a0 Hangbang cuisine usually tastes mainly salty and slightly sweet.<\/p>\n
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KFC in China tastes different from our KFC back home. They also have a special menu here. One of my favorite to order is their chicken twist wrap, they adopted the Beijing roast duck sauce in this recipe. Tasted super awesome and I have ordered at least 3 times during my one week stay in China. I also order the chicken wings which were so crispy and well fried, you won’t find blood inside the meat and meat was tender and moist. The sauce is also worth to mention, which has a light glaze, enhancing the cripsy skin and giving a nice final touch. I know we also have the egg tarts here but the egg tarts in KFC China always serve hot to customers. You should also try their mangoes oolong tea.<\/p>\n
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This taste super similar to Peking roast duck wrap which contains cucumbers, scallions, and duck sauce.\u00a0 I love it so much!<\/p>\n
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Enough of food and how about the nightlife in Hangzhou West Lake?\u00a0 Check out the coolest building in West Lake, the Apple store.<\/p>\n
The Apple store in West Lake is pretty impressive with design features a glass building that can see-through from the outside. During my visit, it was at night time but still the whole building was illuminated with custom made lighting panels. Super chic and fashionable building especially if you look from outside, you will notice a thin floor structure that gives an impression of a floating stage in the center of space, looks super modern. You should also try out the floating glass steps or stairs to go up to the second floor too.\u00a0 The apple store building is the center of attention in West Lake shopping street.<\/p>\n
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