Local specialties of Longmen ancient town

According to legend, when Sun Jian (Sun Quan's father, Zi Wentai) 17 years old, he fought pirates in Qiantang, and all the soldiers were hungry. Sun Jian ordered the farmers living in the mountains to prepare food. Farmers are poor, and there are only sweet potatoes and vermicelli at home, so they mix them and cook them for Sun Jian and his men. Everyone tasted it and found it extremely delicious. At this time, there was a sudden surge of wind and clouds, and it rained cats and dogs in an instant, and the dry weather eased. Since then, Qiantang and Fuyang have had the custom of eating vermicelli, in order to have a good weather.

Ingredients: sweet potato vermicelli, shredded pork, shredded celery, shredded dried incense, shredded red pepper.

Image description: Sun Quan's mother, Wu Guotai, has a smooth taste and transparent dishes. She is thrifty, well-bred, and good at cooking all kinds of home cooking. It is said that "Guotai Tofu" was made by picking up some edamame on the ground. This dish is stewed with tofu from old pig's trotters. It is crispy, mellow, tender and delicious.

Ingredients: aged trotters, stone-ground tofu, stewed for two or three hours, the most suitable story: It is said that Wu Guotai, Sun Quan's mother, loved trotters during the Three Kingdoms period, which coincided with her birthday. At that time, a Jiangxi chef brought back honey, a local specialty, when he returned to his hometown to visit relatives. He made the front of the pig's foot into the shape of an ingot and simmered it with a slow fire to congratulate him. This vegetable juice is thick and delicious, crisp and mellow, and is deeply loved by his wife and Sun Quan.

Ingredients: trotters, honey, rock sugar, broth, soy sauce, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, onion and ginger.

Cooking method: Boil pig's trotters with water (to make the meat elastic), use a casserole, put onions and ginger at the bottom, take broth, honey and rock sugar, and simmer slowly. Gluten is a special food in Longmen, an ancient town. According to legend, before Sun Quan went to war, his mother cooked special food for his son. After the sun rises, every festival will be a fine food for the minister. Sun Quan's descendants passed on our traditional formula from generation to generation and refined it into gluten with unique flavor by hand. It has been circulated for more than a thousand years, and it is a good product for high-end banquets, family dinners and gifts to relatives and friends.

Varieties include: braised three fresh gluten, gluten trotters pot, gluten old duck pot, fried gluten, cold cuts and so on.