The Taihu Lake Boat Meals

The Taihu Lake Boat Meals is also named as"Water Feast Banquet". It was formed with the fast development of the Taihu Lake and the canal water tourism. The Taihu Lake Boat Meals originated from the folk meal with a history of 100 years, and bears with a distinguished feature of the"the south area of the Yangtze River", the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It wasn’t introduced to the popular until the freshman in the east coast of Tai Lake initially produced the fish-flavored Tai Lake Boat Meals in 1994.

The cuisine mainly takes the fish, shrimp and crab from Taihu Lake as its ingredients, stressing on freshness and keeping the original flavor of ingredients. It is cooked in many ways, frying, steaming, boiling, looked exquisitely crispy and delicious and combined with color, flavor and taste.

The cuisine is special for its fresh materials and cooking art. Its operators are all the native freshmen who have followed the cooking skill of hundreds of years. They try to keep its original taste by killing the living fishes, steaming and boiling. Moreover, some are made with particular custom of the Taihu Lake boatmen.

Another feature of the Taihu Lake boat Meal is that there will be some vegetable dishes delivered after the main dish, rather fresh and tender, such as the Huizhou broad bean, winter bamboo shoots with heart of cabbage as well as mushroom with Toufu and so on. While tasting the delicious delicacies on the boat, we can fully enjoy fantasized scenery of the Taihu Lake. The ripple lake, shaken reeds as well as the mountains far away all display wonderful scenery in the south area of the Yangtze River.