Yema Restaurant is the former Yema Tea House, which has been open for more than ten years, even if it has moved to a new location and changed the name of the store, new customers and old customers are still used to calling it Yema Tea House. It's called a teahouse, but it's a home-cooked restaurant, and it makes the old freshness of old Hangzhou.
Yema restores the authentic old home-cooked food of old Hangzhou, and the old customers who come to Yema are mostly super gluttons who eat north and south, and there are two main points to cook here: raw materials and original taste. The boss Lao Ma not only checks the production of each dish, but also buys all the ingredients himself, and every morning Lao Ma has to rush to the dock to grab fresh goods, and he is also familiar with the quality of ingredients. Ye Ma is good at using simple and flavorful methods to deal with local fresh ingredients, especially steamed, cooked dishes are original, chicken, duck and fish meat are hung out of the original umami. Because of this, in the documentary "Taste of China", Yema Tea House was able to appear as a representative of authentic Zhejiang cuisine.
Stewed duck with salted pig's trotters, hairtail with wine, and steamed local chicken with salted pork are the three signature dishes of the store. Salted pig's trotters stewed duck is the number one duck pot in Hangzhou, the duck and the salted pig's trotters are slowly stewed to taste, crispy and soft and glutinous, plus the dried bamboo shoots to enhance the freshness, this pot of soup is very mellow. However, this dish takes a long time, is available in limited quantities per day, and needs to be booked in advance by phone. Steamed local chicken with salted pork has a nostalgic and simple taste, the practice is not much, the delicious dishes lie in the excellent ingredients, the salted meat is pickled by the old horse himself, the local pork has fine and fat, and the level is distinct; The local chicken is the free-range chicken of Deqing Farm, steamed to taste good, the selected local chicken plus the salted meat, the soup is delicious and delicious, it is a really good dish. The most special taste is the wine-fragrant hairtail, five-year Huadiao roasted and fried hairtail section, the hairtail meat is thick, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, the mellow rice wine is sweet and integrated into the hairtail, the taste and taste are good.
The main dish of Yema restaurant takes a long time to make, and you may wish to order the homemade local pork sausage on the table while waiting, which is different from the salty aroma of northern sausage and the sweetness of Cantonese sausage, Yema's homemade sausage reveals a rich layer of wine aroma, and Lao Ma used Jian Nanchun to mix other wines together to marinate during the experiment, which is richer than only using a single wine.
Hangzhou Bang's home-cooked dishes are inevitably thick red sauce, among which Ye Ma's roasted dishes, although the taste is good, but the sauce and oil are heavier, and friends who like light should think twice. Although it is a local restaurant, the decoration of Yema is a retro Shanghai-style route, the interior is clean and bright, and the seating is very comfortable, but the service is relatively ordinary, the waiter's attitude is cold, and occasionally there is a temporary cancellation of the box reservation. The restaurant lobby does not accept reservations, and there are relatively few seats at noon, but if you want to have dinner, it is best to arrive before 5:30 to avoid a long wait.
