Even many old Hangzhou people do not necessarily know that the China Hangzhou Cuisine Museum not only records the development and inheritance of Hangzhou cuisine for thousands of years, but also has authentic Hangzhou cuisine restaurants that are open to the public. If you are interested in the history and style of Hangzhou cuisine, you may want to visit this museum. It took several years from the preparation to the establishment of the museum, and the collection of documents, the restoration of dishes, and the manufacture of models have concentrated the efforts of countless food and beverage people. The most special thing is that the more than 400 dishes on display are all fresh in color, as if they have just been cooked, and they are all restored and made by the chef and then poured into models, which means that most of the dishes you see in the museum can be made in the back kitchen of the museum. If you are hungry at the museum, you can stop by the restaurant to try similar dishes, and the two drive customer flow to each other, which is also an interesting business model.
The Hangzhou Cuisine Museum is dedicated to providing authentic traditional Hangzhou cuisine, where Hu Zhongying, the master of Hangzhou cuisine, is based, and several of the chefs in the restaurant are his disciples and apprentices. Although the taste still leaves something to be desired, it is still commendable compared to the more modest price.
The simplest and most classic Dongpo meat is the most impressive, the meat pieces in the terracotta bowl are square and neat, the appearance is complete, but it has been steamed to crisp, the skin is charred and soft and the fat part melts in the mouth, there is a sweet taste, the lean meat part is soft and delicate, and the slightly sweet sauce fragrance penetrates into it, which is very flavorful and rarely greasy. Braised duck and sauced duck are also quite the essence of Hangzhou cuisine, and the taste is more formal and delicate than the homely taste. Hangzhou people pay attention to eating the right ingredients at the right time, such as duck, the duck meat in spring is tender, the most suitable for braised duck, the duck with more mature meat in summer is suitable for making sauce duck, and continue to grow into an old duck can be used to make soup. The museum's braised duck has a fresh and sweet taste, the meat is more tender, and the juice is retained; The sauce duck tastes slightly salty, neither greasy nor too dry, the air-dried meat is firm but easy to tear off and chew, and the sauce aroma sets off the fragrant duck meat. The Dingsheng cake that blooms all over the streets of Hangzhou has been made badly, and if this pastry doesn't make a good impression on you, why not try it here? Unlike the dry and hard Dingsheng Cake on the market, the Museum's authentic Dingsheng Cake is a mixture of japonica rice flour and glutinous rice flour in a certain proportion, giving it a soft and elastic texture and a rich rice flavor that fills the mouth between chewing. However, although the overall production of the Hangzhou Bang Cuisine Museum is better, the kitchen management is not strict enough, and the production will be unstable when the passenger flow is large.
The restaurant is located in the Jiangyangfu Ecological Park, known as a natural oxygen bar, with the mountains and rivers in its backdrop, and its terrace and outdoor seating face the wetland landscape with abundant aquatic plants, which was once used as a shooting point for the tip of the tongue China II. The restaurant is divided into Qiantang Kitchen, Hangzhou Taste and Dongpo Pavilion, Qiantang Kitchen takes the people-friendly route, mainly for individual diners to dine in the hall, there are also banquet halls that can hold large-scale activities of about 100 people, exquisite but more spacious and elegant, the service is not enthusiastic and professional enough, but basically responds quickly to customer needs; Hangzhou Taste and Dongpo Pavilion are private room areas, and Hangzhou Taste is more quiet and elegant than Qiantang Kitchen, which is suitable for family and friend gatherings; The decoration of Dongpo Pavilion has a sense of calm and luxury, and a more exquisite environment and thoughtful service can provide a better business banquet experience; The dishes and tastes of the three restaurants are basically the same, but they are divided into three separate spaces according to their functions. To reserve a private room, please call in advance.