Impressed Yangzhou, the city on the tip of the tongue

There is a poem saying: Fireworks fall in Yangzhou in March,

As a native of Jiangsu, he is no stranger to Yangzhou.

Yangzhou in the third month of the lunar calendar is beautiful.

A hundred flowers bloom, peach blossoms and white willows,

The white jade flowers bloom brightly, like March snow, stunning all four.

An ancient canal meanders past, and the cities in the south of the Yangtze River are always intoxicating.

If you miss the beautiful scenery in March,

It doesn't matter, the dining tables of Yangzhou people are also very happy.

The exquisite Yangzhou morning tea is one of the main reasons why countless people are obsessed with Yangzhou.

Enjoy every morning tea leisurely and start every day in Yangzhou.

Eating is not only for survival, but also for life.

As the birthplace of Huaiyang cuisine, the Yangzhou banquet cannot be missed.

Like this city, it is exquisite and elegant.

When you go to Slender West Lake, don't miss the food street there,

It is lively and fragrant, and the aroma is overflowing.

A variety of Yangzhou snacks fill both sides of the street,

What comes to your face is the enthusiasm of Yangzhou people and their pursuit of delicious food.

Yangzhou, the first canal city in China,

It uses its wonderful taste of surprises,

It held the stomachs of countless people and their hearts.

Trip Overview

Day1: After arriving in Yangzhou, go to Quyuan for dinner first-check into the guest house

Day2: Start with the sumptuous morning tea at Guiqu Hall in Quyuan in the morning-visit Slender West Lake (Chuanniang, Intangible Cultural Heritage Hall, Cultural and Creative Store, Yangpai Bonsai, Chunjiang Flower Moonlit Night Performance)--Lunch at 1757 Food Corridor in Slender West Lake--Experience the hot springs of Slender West Lake Hot Spring Resort in the afternoon-Dinner is a banquet in Yangzhou-Stay at Friendship Zhizhu Hotel

Day3: Go to Quyuan Tea House for morning tea-Visit Geyuan-Visit Fuyuan and watch the performance of "Thousand Thousand Fendai"-Lunch is a Salt Merchants Banquet-Return after lunch

Yangzhou's first meal, check in Quyuan Tea House

Due to the arrival time, the first meal I had when I came to Quyuan Tea House during this trip to Yangzhou was actually dinner. Although this place is famous for its morning tea, it does not mean that only the morning is worth visiting.

Ershuaqu Garden Tea House, the scenery here is still charming. It is like a small garden, surrounded by green shades and gurgling water.

Quyuan Tea House, facing Slender West Lake across the water, is quiet, pleasant, gentle and moving.

Quyuan Tea House sells typical Huaiyang cuisine, which is still delicious, exquisite and beautiful.

Eight-treasure gourd duck is a specialty of Quyuan and it is also the one I order most often. The rice inside the duck is very delicious, a bit like the taste of meat dumplings. It is sweet, oily, and unique in flavor. The taste is so good that even the onions on the side dish perform well.

Every city has a dish named after the city. Yangzhou fried rice is a classic Yangzhou cuisine. When you come to Yangzhou, you have to try it. It is really different from the ones outside.

In 2015, Yangzhou issued a standard for Yangzhou fried rice. The rice noodles should be clearly grained, crystal clear and translucent, and the color should be red, green, yellow and white orange, giving people a sense of clarity and harmony. The salty and fresh fried rice should be moderately soft and soft, fragrant and refreshing, and the aroma should not be lost. The ingredients, steps, etc. are all stipulated, so strict is just for the inheritance of delicious food.

There is one unique dish on the table, which is the egg on the table, because it is Gaoyou's double yellow duck eggs.

Double yellow eggs are rare, let alone duck eggs, but you can easily taste them in Yangzhou. For me, who likes to eat duck eggs, my happiness exploded instantly and the whole night was lit up. The method is not unusual, but the ingredients themselves are already very rare.

As a Jiangnan city, the most important thing is aquatic products. Various types of shrimp are suitable for their respective cooking methods, and every bite is a gift. Summer is not over yet, and the red crayfish are still online, but the food here is secretly made with Huadiao wine. The alcohol has been evaporated, but the aroma of the wine is unique.

The stir-fried shrimp with sweet beans made of Q popped shrimp and soft glutinous sweet beans is a different scenery next to it. It is simple and refreshing, low-fat and low-oil, which is very suitable for people like me who have been clamoring to lose weight all year round.

As a famous Huaiyang dish, this Huaiyang stir-fried soft bag has a great reputation. After frying, there was not much marinade on the plate. Because it was all hung in the pocket of shredded eel, it was named soft bag. This dish has soft and tender meat, fresh and refreshing meat. Not all shredded eel dishes can be called soft pockets.

Cordyceps flower baby pigeon cup, casserole chicken lion head, asparagus veal... a table of people ordered a full table of dishes, so that we, who were in urgent need of stomach-strengthening and digestion tablets, were already immersed in Yangzhou's delicious food on the first night. In front of the Yangzhou morning tea the next morning, friends who came to Yangzhou for the first time couldn't stop.

Yangzhou morning tea, not making do with it from the morning

In addition to Guangdong cities such as Guangzhou and Foshan, which have morning tea, the only city in China that has the habit of morning tea is Yangzhou. Morning tea is the beginning of a day in Yangzhou. A perfect morning tea represents the beauty of the day.

We got up early in the morning and went to Quyuan Tea House. There are many places where you can drink morning tea in Yangzhou, but in terms of environment, exquisiteness, taste and local people's morning tea habits, I prefer Quyuan Tea House, which is also one of the black pearl restaurants in a certain review (it is said that there are very few black pearl restaurants in a certain review and very difficult to get).

Wuding steamed buns contain heaven and earth, including diced chicken, pork, bamboo shoots, shrimp, and sea cucumber. They are rich in ingredients and have a diverse taste. They are also Yangzhou characteristics and fresh!

Crab yellow soup dumplings are found in many places in Jiangsu and Shanghai. Friends who have been to Shanghai's City God Temple must have seen people "sucking" steamed buns with a tube. In Yangzhou, there are different ways to eat.

How to eat crab roe buns

Mainly pay attention to "three degrees"

Height:Bring the plate to a certain height and eat.

Angle:When biting the steamed buns, pay attention to the angle not too low in case the soup flows out.

Speed:After biting it, eat it as soon as possible. It will taste different when it is cold.

Although the surface of this steamed bun is a bit exquisite, the stuffing made with crab roe and crab meat from fresh hairy crabs is extremely delicious. The paper-thin steamed bun skin also requires a lot of effort.

Blanching shredded silk and boiling shredded silk are common dry shredded methods in Yangzhou, but they are very different in terms of taste and practice. One hot and one boiled, one salty and one sweet, one cold and one hot.

Boiled dried shredded silk combines the delicious taste of broth, shrimp and other ingredients, and is generally made into dinner. Hot dried shredded silk is an indispensable part of Yangzhou morning tea. It is clear and refreshing, and can be seen at almost every breakfast stall. If you encounter dried silk that is cut evenly and neatly, and if it can be as thin as a matchstick, congratulations, this chef's knife skills are not simple.

A handful of fine noodles, half a bowl of soup, a glass of clear water, five cents of lard, a spoonful of soy sauce from the old Chen family at Qiaotou, and scalding two crisp and crisp pakchoi. This is the passage that impressed me most about Yangchun noodles.

Quyuan Tea House's shrimp seed Yangchun noodles have a strong taste of shrimp seeds, soft noodles, and delicious soup. There is not a drop of soup and noodles left. Liquidation is the greatest recognition of a delicious food.

Jade Shaomai is another traditional and famous dish in Yangzhou. The steamed wheat skin is so thin that you can see the green shepherd's purse filling inside. It is very fresh and tender, and it ranks among the top three favorite Yangzhou snacks.

Eat good breakfast, eat meat for breakfast and not gain weight. This is how my brain comforted myself when I chew the meat with shredded ginger. The non-greasy, slightly crispy and fragrant, red and tender frozen crystal dish is one of the four flavors of cold dishes at the founding ceremony. It is a representative dish among Huaiyang cuisine.

Pushing sand to watch the moon, glutinous rice, shredded carrot and grape oil, steamed dumplings with bean paste, steamed dumplings with soup, and sesame balls with bean paste... it is another dazzling table. When I came out after eating slowly at around 10 o'clock, I found that there were still people in line, which shows the people of Yangzhou love for morning tea.

Morning Tea Tips

1. Locals in Yangzhou generally queue up, and most of them will reserve a private room in advance if they want to entertain friends from other places.

The difference between the two is that if a box is booked, it can be booked according to the scheduled time without having to get up too early. On the contrary, queue up, etc. Calling officially starts at seven o'clock.

When booking a box, there is a guaranteed price for consumption. Our price is 298 yuan/person. Better boxes are more expensive.

If you don't book a private room, you can also order as much as you order.

2. Yangzhou morning tea is actually not expensive, because in terms of the types, taste and dining environment of morning tea, Quyuan Tea House is very cost-effective. A truly luxurious time. After all, one morning tea can last 1-2 hours.

3. Address of Quyuan Tea House: Yanyu Building, Slender West Lake Fourth Bridge, No. 5 Changchun Road, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City, next to the north gate of Fufang Garden, guest house

"Feng Wei" is the same as Yangzhou banquet, exquisite Huaiyang cuisine

The Black Pearl Erzuan Restaurant on a certain review has an antique door and is located on the bank of Slender West Lake. The large sedan chair entering the door is very unique. The whole building is low-key and exquisite, with unique craftsmanship. The Yangzhou banquet is beautiful in Yangzhou. This is my first impression of the Yangzhou banquet.

Let's go back to eating. Although the hairy crabs are not at their fattest yet, this plate of crabs has already made us very satisfied. The crabs drunk in Huadiao wine have a different taste. After being cut, they are neatly arranged on the plate. It is beautiful and convenient for diners to enjoy.

Wensi tofu soup is another kung fu dish that amazes friends from other places. It requires higher cutting skills than dried shredded silk. All the ingredients inside must be cut into shredded as thick as hair. The shredded tofu floated in the soup bowl and couldn't help but call the chef. The ingredients that are already fresh are even more delicious in chicken broth.

The parcelain-scented pearl fish round is tender and crispy. It floats in the soup, with green celery as an embellishment. It is beautiful.

Boiling river shrimps in salt water is a common practice in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The method is simple and basically has no technical difficulty, but the requirements on ingredients are relatively high. After a little cooking, fresh river shrimp is delicious and light, making it very suitable for consumption in summer.

Yangzhou is close to the Yangtze River, and freshly salvaged river white fish is steamed and cooked. The fish is tender and fresh, and the aroma of scallion oil is overflowing.

Braised ankles with soybeans, orange-flavored veal, steamed goose with gourd, Sichuan-flavored fresh kidney flower, crab roe stewed vermicelli, fish head Buddha jumps over the wall,... Forgive me, there are too many dishes, and there are too many delicious dishes. I am hungry again after I recall here.

Address: No. 38 Changchun Road, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City, opposite the East Gate of Slender West Lake

Business hours: 11:00 to 14:00, 17:00 to 21:00

You can make reservations here at around 100 per person, which is not expensive.

Salt merchant banquet, a delicacy in a century-old house

During the Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou's salt merchants were as rich as the enemy's country. At that time, Yangzhou was extremely prosperous and unparalleled. It is said that Huaiyang cuisine was also established by Yangzhou salt merchants at that time, and the salt merchant culture had a profound influence on Huaiyang cuisine. The Lu family's ancient house is known as the "Salt Merchants First Floor" and has now been transformed into a restaurant, which is very distinctive.

This is also authentic Huaiyang-style dishes, but what is different from before is that the dishes here are more exquisite, and the names and handling of some ingredients also highlight the wealth of the salt merchants.

This dish is called Yi Yin Yan, but it is actually red wine Dongpo pork.

Jade white jade open-backed shrimp

Chrysanthemum tofu in clear chicken soup, mushroom beef with deep-sea sturgeon roll, thick soup wild rice porridge with flower glue king, Huaiyang black rice cake, lotus leaf ham fried rice... It's another feast, checking in "China on the Tip of the Mouth" Another location.

Starting with Huaiyang cuisine and ending with Huaiyang cuisine, this trip to Yangzhou cuisine is perfect. After eating, you can visit this ancient house. Although the wind and rain are ruthless, it is still magnificent.

1. Tickets for the ancient house are not expensive, 20 yuan. Free tickets if you eat

2. Business hours: 7:00 to 9:30, 11:30 to 13:00, 17:30 to 20:00

3. Address: Lu's Ancient House, No. 22, Kangshan Street, Guangling District, Yangzhou City

If you don't reach Slender West Lake, you won't come to Yangzhou

Poplar trees continue to pick up the remnants, and geese 'teeth make drawings on the red bridge.

It is also a pot of gold, so it should be called Slender West Lake.

There are thirty-six out of thirty-six West Lakes in the world, but Yangzhou is the only one who is called thin. The water surface is sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, graceful, like a thin beauty.

There are many bridges in Slender West Lake, including the 24th Bridge, Wuting Bridge, Diaoyutai, etc. The weeping willows on the bank gently brush the water surface, and the waves ripple, giving a beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River.

If I can catch the spring March, I might be able to capture the scene of the blooming Qionghua. However, Slender West Lake in late summer is also beautiful. The summer heat has not subsided, but I feel comfortable in Slender West Lake. I ride a cruise ship on the water, and people are swimming in paintings.

This is not the first time that Slender West Lake has been here, but the cultural and creative products inside have new tricks every time. Whether it is practical items or exquisite small decorations, they are all very unique.

The new check-in this time is the Yangpai Bonsai Museum in Slender West Lake. This is a museum that collects and displays Yangpai bonsai art. It also has the function of popularizing and studying Yangpai bonsai art.

Like Yangzhou scenery, Yang-style bonsai is dignified, elegant, delicate and exquisite. It is one of the five major schools of Chinese bonsai art. There are more than 200 ancient bonsais and more than 500 exquisite bonsais here. I, who like to play with flowers and plants, have also seen the process of making Yangpai bonsais, and I have received a lot of money.

While visiting Slender West Lake, we found a good place, 1757 Food Street, located near the east gate of Slender West Lake.

The food street, mainly in the style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with blue bricks and small tiles, and connected corridors, is also a scenery in Slender West Lake.

It mainly sells old flavors of Yangzhou and famous snacks from all over the country, as well as some handicraft display and performance projects. If you are tired of wandering around the Slender West Lake Scenic Area or it is lunchtime, you can choose to take a break or have a full meal here.

Practical information on Slender West Lake

Address: No. 28, Dahongqiao Road, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City

Tickets: 100 yuan (March, 4, 5, 9, 10, November), 60 yuan (February, 6, July, August), 30 yuan (January, December)

Joint ticket (Slender West Lake, Daming Temple, Geyuan, Heyuan Ancient Canal Water Tour Line): 200 yuan (March, 4, 5, 9, 10, and November), 150 yuan (January, 2, 6, 7, 8, and December)

Tickets for single scenic spots in Slender West Lake do not include cruises, sightseeing buses, and tour guides. Special groups have discounted fares

The scenery in the four seasons is different-Geyuan

Autumn comes in from the rain of summer, and spring looks on the cold plum stamens.

The moon reflects thousands of words on the bamboo, and the frosty plum blossoms are pregnant with flowers.

Geyuan is a private house built because of bamboo. The name is also because the owner of the garden likes bamboo, and the three bamboo leaves are named after the character "ge".

Geyuan, along with the Summer Palace, Summer Resort and Humble Administrator's Garden, has become China's four famous gardens. Although it is artificially built, the clever layout makes the scenery of Geyuan unique in all seasons. In 1988, it was awarded the title of a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Walking among them, you can see that the owner has exhausted his thoughts. The garden in the middle divides the pool with rockery, and the shapes are dazzling. The excellent art of stacking stones is the unique copy of Chinese gardens. Four different forms of stones, namely bamboo shoots, lake stones, yellowstone, and Xuan stones, are used to stack rockery in all seasons. Spring, summer, autumn and winter are all in the garden, making it extremely interesting to swim.

Even if it was a long time ago, we can see the financial resources of Huang Zhiyun, the owner of the garden at that time. After all, he was also the chief salt merchant of Lianghuai at that time. The carvings on each door and window are different, which shows the different status of the owner of the room, which is quite particular. Everything in the mansion is different from ordinary Yangzhou houses. This is what the large households on TV look like.

Points for attention in the garden

1. The east gate only goes out but not in, and the north gate only goes in but not out.

2. The north of the garden is the bamboo viewing area, the middle garden, and the south is the residential area

3. On Beiguan Street in the south, most tourists enter from the south gate, and there will be fewer people at the north gate.

4. There will be a tour guide every half hour. I suggest listening, otherwise you will not have a deep understanding of the ancient house.

Address: No. 10, Yanfu East Road, Guangling District, Yangzhou City

Tickets: 45 yuan in peak season and 30 yuan in off-season

Opening hours: 7:30 to 17:00

State Guesthouse by Slender West Lake, Guest House

If a friend comes to Yangzhou, the hotel I recommend to him must be the guest house.

Quyuan Tea House is located in the hotel. It is only about 15 minutes 'walk from the hotel to Slender West Lake. You can see Siqiao Yanyu Building and Changdi Chunliu from the room, which is quite convenient. Such a superior geographical location is definitely a must-have for visiting Yangzhou.

What attracts me the most is the beautiful scenery here. It is worthy of being the State Guesthouse, the earliest five-star hotel in Yangzhou, and it is also a real five-star hotel growing in the garden. The hotel itself is a beautiful scenery, with small bridges and flowing water, water pavilions and towers, green everywhere, and birds singing and fragrant flowers. The scenery between buildings is different and I enjoy it.

The hotel provides battery cars. If you are interested, you can ask the waiter to drive the battery car to take you around the garden. Listen to the staff's introduction on the way, which will make you like the city more.

Although it is an established five-star hotel, it is also very up-to-date with the times. There are guidance robots in the lobby, and the interaction with the children makes everyone laugh.

The hotel rooms were spacious and elegant. After all, they were used to entertain foreign guests. When the sun shines through the trees and through the gauze curtains, it is beautiful.

Address: No. 48, Shouxihu Road, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City

Sleep in Slender West Lake, Slender West Lake Hot Spring Resort

Wrap in water during the day and wrap in water at night. Because we wanted to soak in the hot springs at Slender West Lake Hot Spring Resort, we also took a break here.

The Hot Spring Resort is very close to Slender West Lake and within walking distance of the East Gate of Slender West Lake. The location is very good. As soon as you stepped into this place, you will encounter a sense of Jiangnan courtyards. The hot spring villas here are the most recommended because each villa has a separate courtyard and hot spring pool, which is very convenient. It is said that such holiday villas are rare in the entire East China.

The interior space of the hot spring villa room is very large. The room is separated from the living room. There is a sofa, a small refrigerator, a four-person table and chair, and the bathroom is separated from dry and wet. I am very satisfied with this hotel layout.

The room's large floor-to-ceiling windows are eye-catching. Who wouldn't love a transparent and bright room? It's like home here. The villa is also equipped with a housekeeper, and the service is meticulous and warm. The hot spring villa is very private. If it is a family, it will definitely be a wonderful experience.

Address: No. 38 Changchun Road, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou

Smart Hotel, Slender West Lake Friendship Smart Hotel

The biggest feature of Slender West Lake Friendship Smart Hotel is its intelligent equipment, which can self-check in, realizing the functions of opening doors with mobile phones, intelligently controlling room lights, and adjusting air conditioning lights. Robot Xiao E is a group pet here, and the guests like him very much.

Another reason I like it here is the ubiquitous books. The whole hotel is full of books, and coupled with the antique decoration, it is a pleasure to stay here.

If people who can't get up early, they can enjoy Yangzhou morning tea at the Quyuan Small Restaurant of the hotel. This belongs to the distribution of Quyuan Tea House, and general morning tea and refreshments are the same.

Address: No. 1 Youyi Road, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City

Yangzhou Entertainment

Wrap your skin with water in the morning and wrap it with water at night. This is our life in Yangzhou and the daily life of millions of people in Yangzhou. Soaking in ponds and hot springs are the favorite ways to relieve stress among old Yangzhou people. I recommend two other ways of entertainment for tourists to Yangzhou, which are both fun and can learn some knowledge about Yangzhou.

Slender West Lake "Spring River Flowers Moonlit Night"

To understand other cities, you can start with museums, while to understand Yangzhou, you can start with this performance.

A large-scale real-life garden performance was held in the Slender West Lake Scenic Area. Although it was not a grand masterpiece, it had Yangzhou characteristics. The fountains are stacked and undulating, and the musicians jointly composed a song "Spring River Flowers and Night Night".

The nine parts and four acts tell the different styles and historical stories of Yangzhou in six eras: the Sui, Tang, Song, Ming, Qing and modern times. Through their performances, the actors brought us back to those thrilling ones, or lamented the times of indignation.

Compared with some performances in Hangzhou and Sanya, the performances here may not be advanced enough in terms of hardware, but each city has its own unique cultural symbols, which cannot be replaced by any high technology.

Especially when "Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty" appeared, this prosperous city, like the emperor, began to lose its glory. However, the man was gone, and the city has regained new vitality. Beautiful Yangzhou, I believe Yangzhou will get better and better.

Tips:It doesn't happen every night. You can ask the hotel front desk in advance to help you make reservations.

Performance time:19:45 to 20:45

Address:Inside Wan Garden, East Gate of Slender West Lake

Tickets:Full ticket 220 yuan, discount ticket 110 yuan

Fuyuan's "Thousand Years of Fendai"

Fuyuan is a Xie Fuchun tourist attraction renovated on the former site of Xie Fuchun in the Yuan Dynasty. Tourists can now enjoy Yangzhou morning tea while enjoying Yangzhou cultural performances here.

This is the audience's perspective. It feels like a Qing Dynasty salt merchant listening to a drama in his own courtyard. Although it was past morning tea time when we arrived, we still ordered some snacks and waited for the performance to start.

The performances include special programs such as puppet strings, Yangzhou pingtan, pipa, and guzheng. The main ones are Yangzhou beauty cards. The beautiful ladies and sisters performing use various stage arts such as vocal music, dance, instrumental music, local folk art, drama sketches and modeling shows. Reappearance those famous women who have had great influence in Yangzhou history.

Wu Nong speaks softly and gently. The adopted daughters of thousands of families teach music first, and planting flowers ten miles is considered farming. More than 100 beautiful women in Yangzhou, coupled with various skills and technological means, can have fun even if you don't understand it.

Address: No. 243 Dongguan Street, Yangzhou City

Performance time: 14 p.m.

traffic Tips

External arrivals:

Yangzhou has Yangzhou Taizhou Airport and Yangzhou Railway Station. It is convenient to reach Yangzhou from other provinces and cities. Due to its geographical location, Zhenjiang South Railway Station is the closest way.

Internal transportation:

1. Most of the buses in Yangzhou City are unmanned ticketing vehicles. At the same time, tourist bus lines and special tourist bus lines have been specially set up.

However, when taking a bus in Yangzhou, you must clearly see the route and end of operation time of the vehicle you want to take. This is very important.

2. The starting price of a taxi in Yangzhou is 7 yuan (3 kilometers). Yangzhou city is not big, so traveling around Yangzhou by taxi is not expensive.

3. Manpower tricycles are a characteristic transportation method in Yangzhou City. The buildings in the old streets are mainly concentrated in the eastern district, and the roads are narrow and difficult to walk on. If you are interested, you can negotiate the price and experience it, especially on Guoqing Road.

Conclusion Expectation

Another miss with Yangzhou in March,

But it is also the reason for the next trip to Yangzhou.

Although I don't know when the next time will be,

But

Yangzhou, on my taste buds, is delicious, salty and fragrant Yangzhou cuisine.

Yangzhou, in my eyes, is the gentle and moving Slender West Lake.

Yangzhou, in my ears, is the pleasant sound of pipa,

Yangzhou, in my dream, is a guesthouse for a good dream.

Looking forward to the next Yangzhou.