ENDLESS Chinese STREET FOOD Tour - Beef Rolls, Five Layered Pork, Slippery Wontons | Hangzhou, China
After arriving in Hangzhou, China, I met up with my friend Jamie, the owner of UnTour Food Tours, who took me on a sneak peak of their newest Hangzhou tour!
First up was a traditional pancake that contains preserved mustard greens, green onions, and minced pork! It was served steaming hot and had lots of delicious, flaky layers. All it needed was some sauce!
Next, we had beef rolls wrapped in tofu skin at a Muslim snack shop. The beef was bursting with five spice flavor. It was so different to anything I’d had in China so far! The layers of tofu skin and spices complemented the juicy beef!
We briefly stopped at the Phoenix Mosque, one of the four largest mosques in China, before visiting an open-air wet market, where we saw bamboo shoots, razor clams, freshwater eels, and dried meat! The dried meat looked so delicious!
After trying a clear, watery, and floral honey, we bought a spicy pancake-like dish and saw some baijiu, a fermented alcoholic drink that has an alcohol content above 20%. It cost about $2 U.S. for 500 mL!
The pancake was almost like a Chinese pizza that had been cut into squares. It came slathered with a flavorful, glazy, red sauce. I loved the contrast created by the sesame seeds!
After a walk along a pedestrian-friendly street, we visited a multigenerational pickle shop! The aroma inside was very potent. We bought a flowering herb called Solomon Scroll that looked almost like a worm as well as a pickle that contained daikon, ginger, and cucumbers.
Then, we had slippery pork wontons, which were super thin and paper-like and served in a soup! They evaporate in your mouth and slip right down your throat! Next was an insanely tender and juicy Hangzhou specialty called Beggar’s Chicken, which is wrapped in a lotus leaf, covered in mud, and baked, as well as delicious, al dente noodles with sliced bamboo and pickled mustard greens.
After our meal, we flew down an ancient street lined with stores, restaurants, and souvenir shops to get to a traditional medicine shop selling huge mushrooms, ginseng, and other traditional medicines. The building gave me a real feel of China from centuries ago!
Up next was a hike to work off our meal! We headed up a hill to get to the Medicine God Temple at the top. You pray to the medicine god if you’re sick. Inside the temple is a tea house where I was treated to epic views of the city and the massive West Lake! It almost reminded me of Bosnia!
There, we tried Dragon Well tea, the most famous green tea in the world. As we sipped out tea, we also tried pickled daikon radish, which was really refreshing! Then was the Solomon’s Scrolls, some sweet rolls, and dried ginger, kumquats, and plum. They were so good! We finished up with a strong Chinese fruit wine!
Then we headed through the garden and made our final stop at a traditional Hangzhou snack shop, where we tried more local specialties, including fava beans, a caramelized pork belly with a red sauce, and glutinous and sweet rice balls.
The fava beans reminded me of edamame and had dried chilies in them. The caramelized pork belly was super thick and fatty and unbelievably tasty with the sauce. The soup was like a sweet egg drop soup with rice balls. It wasn’t my favorite, but only because I’m not really a sweets guy.
Wow! What an incredible food tour. I have to thank Jamie and UnTour Food Tours for showing me around Hangzhou and giving me the opportunity to sample so many local favorites. I had such a great time!
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ENDLESS Chinese STREET FOOD Tour - Beef Rolls, Five Layered Pork, Slippery Wontons | Hangzhou, China
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