Pickled Cucumber
Shaoxing traditional famous special local product, enjoy equal fame with yellow wine and fermented bean curd. The pickled cucumber once one of eight major tribute of Shaoxing, thus came the name of the pickled cucumber in history. The pickled cucumber used green cucumber as raw materials and is pickled.
Choose the first-class green cucumber of stout and strong and tender, length of about 6 inches, clean, dry hiddenly, use and stipulate the proportion is salted, pull out in 10 to 5 days, the fresh water floats light, mix and stir the sweet sauce, put into the jar layer by layer, seal with yellow mud, the sauce is salted down for about 25 days, can open the jar to eat. The color and luster of the pickled cucumber is red and bright, it is sweet to take in meat is tender, salty, clear and melodious and delightful, while eating, wash the sauce mud, slice, mix it with the sesame oil, taste is very delicious, as eat porridge, drinking water cooked rice in soak go with dish to be particularly good. Because good and cheap, can promote appetite is dark to like for the masses of people in urban and rural areas.
Source: travelchinaguide.com
Editor: Wang Moyan
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