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Kuiyuan Museum

There is a saying: "if you don"t eat Kuiyuan"s noodles in Hangzhou, you"ve never visited Hangzhou." Over the past hundred years, the Kuiyuan Museum has received celebrities such as Cai tingkai, Jiang Jingguo, Li Jishen, Chen Shutong, Mei Lanfang, Zhu Kezhen, Gai jiaotian, Zhou Xuan, Jin Yong and other celebrities. After the victory of the Anti Japanese war in 1945, general Cai tingkai, the former commander of the 19th Route Army of the Kuomintang, and Li Jishen went to kuiyuanguan and left the word "original southeast creation" in ink.

Kuiyuan restaurant manages as many as 100 kinds of noodles, but the most famous ones are Sichuan noodles and fried eel noodles. The noodles in Kuiyuan hall are called "sitting noodles". They are made by specially assigned people. After they are strengthened by hand, they have to pad a 9-foot-long bamboo bar with a bowl width. After that, they have to grind them manually for about half an hour. Every 30 jin of flour is beaten into 8-foot-wide and 7-foot-long noodles, which can be cut into 3-point noodles. "Sitting noodles" are not burnt, tough and smooth. They have "muscles and bones" to eat, and the fabric preparation is also very particular. The legend of pianerchuan ingredients is inspired by the sentence "no meat makes you thin, no shoot makes you vulgar" written by Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo when he was a local official in Hangzhou. It takes fresh leg meat, fresh bamboo shoots and green and tender snow vegetables as raw materials, cooked by the chef. When a bowl of steaming Sichuan noodles is served, the meat is red, the bamboo shoots are white, and the vegetables are green. The color is clear and appetizing. It is no wonder that later generations have often said, "it is not vulgar to have bamboo shoots and meat, not to be thin, but to cook noodles with pickled vegetables, and to be blessed by immortals.". In 1996, Mr. Jin Yong came to Hangzhou to have dinner in Kuiyuan restaurant. In addition to the welcome basin "pine and crane extending the new year" and eight cold dishes around the plate, we also tasted eight kinds of pasta - Beisong noodles, Jinqiu crab yellow noodles, sanyuanjia fish noodles, Caiyun Baochun noodles, shrimp and butterfly noodles, Xihu mandarin fish noodles, and winter bamboo shoots noodles with snow vegetables. Finally came the famous Chinese dish shrimp fried eel noodles. After tasting it, Mr. Jin Yong praised it and wrote the inscription "Hangzhou Kuiyuan hall, the world"s best".


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