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By Xu Wenwen |
January 12, 2012, Thursday
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DADOU Road is a quaint food street home to 92 restaurants, cafes and bars providing a large variety of food and drinks. The road extending from the Grand Canal is also an attraction in itself. The black-and-white traditional buildings give the strip a nostalgic look.
Last Thursday, Shanghai Daily's Hangzhou Special carried the first part of the introduction to Dadou Road. Today's article is the second one.
This week we discover a Chinese vegetarian restaurant, a Korean barbecue restaurant and a spiritual teahouse, all of which mirror the folk atmosphere of the street.
San Run Ju Teahouse
The establishment facing the Grand Canal is a high-end teahouse. On sunny days, the floor-to-ceiling windows allow the stone floor and wooden furniture to bathe in sunshine. It makes for a pleasing scene with the Grand Canal just a few steps away.
It mainly sells tea along with a few snacks and fruits. The decor includes tea pots, tea cups, tea-making tools and books about tea.
One pot of tea usually costs more than 100 yuan (US$15.8). The menu includes green tea, black tea, flower tea, Pu'er tea (a variety of post-fermented tea produced in Yunnan Province) and Dahongpao (a type of oolong tea).
It is said the boss brings the best Dahongpao tea he finds from the Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province, where the tea originates, and the Buddhist abbot of nearby Xiangji Temple loves to stop here for a pot of Dahongpao.
Address: 102 Dadou Rd
Tel: (0571) 8803-5977
Shou Kang Yong Restaurant
Vegetarianism has a long tradition in the country ever since Buddhism flourished more than 1,000 years ago.
So while Chinese cuisine boasts many classic meat dishes, it also has a history of distinct vegetarian dishes, many of which use vegetables to pose as meats, both in shape and texture.
Shou Kang Yong Restaurant is beside the renovated Xiangji Temple.
Usually, Chinese vegetarian restaurants offer both ordinary vegetable dishes and a lot of fake "meat dishes" made from tofu and all kinds of mushrooms. Shou Kang Yong keeps this tradition alive.
The menu offers many "meat dishes" that can confuse people due to the color, shape, flavor and texture.
For example, pan-fried "steak" with black pepper has a firmness similar to beef due to the compacted dried tofu, and "sausage" features white clots made from sweet potato starch inside, which are passed off as fat meat.
Mushroom, amorphophallus konjac, a plant known for its fiber, and tofu are the main ingredients in these dishes, but the cooking process is special and the recipes are confidential.
Only chefs who have had special training are qualified to cook them.
As a result, the price of these fake meats can be similar to, or even higher than, that of real meats.
The restaurant also provides common vegetable dishes, soups and noodles at fair prices.
Address: 108 Dadou Rd
Tel: (0571) 8839-7597
Kaobei Grill
This Korean self-serve barbecue restaurant is a nice change of pace from the many Chinese restaurants.
Kaobei offers raw or preserved pork, beef, poultry and seafood, Korean pancakes and soup. For those looking to try something new they also serve donkey meat, which is tougher than beef or lamb.
Other specialties include sweet potato baked with cheese and guarou.
Guarou is lean pork preserved in a sweet, salty sauce before serving. Pieces of meat are hung on a small stand when served to keep every drop of the sauce coating the meat.
Although the sweet potato baked with cheese has won much praise, the restaurant only makes 20 a day. First come, first served.
Address: 236 Dadou Rd
Tel: (0571) 5811-1525
Last Thursday, Shanghai Daily's Hangzhou Special carried the first part of the introduction to Dadou Road. Today's article is the second one.
This week we discover a Chinese vegetarian restaurant, a Korean barbecue restaurant and a spiritual teahouse, all of which mirror the folk atmosphere of the street.
San Run Ju Teahouse
The establishment facing the Grand Canal is a high-end teahouse. On sunny days, the floor-to-ceiling windows allow the stone floor and wooden furniture to bathe in sunshine. It makes for a pleasing scene with the Grand Canal just a few steps away.
It mainly sells tea along with a few snacks and fruits. The decor includes tea pots, tea cups, tea-making tools and books about tea.
One pot of tea usually costs more than 100 yuan (US$15.8). The menu includes green tea, black tea, flower tea, Pu'er tea (a variety of post-fermented tea produced in Yunnan Province) and Dahongpao (a type of oolong tea).
It is said the boss brings the best Dahongpao tea he finds from the Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province, where the tea originates, and the Buddhist abbot of nearby Xiangji Temple loves to stop here for a pot of Dahongpao.
Address: 102 Dadou Rd
Tel: (0571) 8803-5977
Shou Kang Yong Restaurant
Vegetarianism has a long tradition in the country ever since Buddhism flourished more than 1,000 years ago.
So while Chinese cuisine boasts many classic meat dishes, it also has a history of distinct vegetarian dishes, many of which use vegetables to pose as meats, both in shape and texture.
Shou Kang Yong Restaurant is beside the renovated Xiangji Temple.
Usually, Chinese vegetarian restaurants offer both ordinary vegetable dishes and a lot of fake "meat dishes" made from tofu and all kinds of mushrooms. Shou Kang Yong keeps this tradition alive.
The menu offers many "meat dishes" that can confuse people due to the color, shape, flavor and texture.
For example, pan-fried "steak" with black pepper has a firmness similar to beef due to the compacted dried tofu, and "sausage" features white clots made from sweet potato starch inside, which are passed off as fat meat.
Mushroom, amorphophallus konjac, a plant known for its fiber, and tofu are the main ingredients in these dishes, but the cooking process is special and the recipes are confidential.
Only chefs who have had special training are qualified to cook them.
As a result, the price of these fake meats can be similar to, or even higher than, that of real meats.
The restaurant also provides common vegetable dishes, soups and noodles at fair prices.
Address: 108 Dadou Rd
Tel: (0571) 8839-7597
Kaobei Grill
This Korean self-serve barbecue restaurant is a nice change of pace from the many Chinese restaurants.
Kaobei offers raw or preserved pork, beef, poultry and seafood, Korean pancakes and soup. For those looking to try something new they also serve donkey meat, which is tougher than beef or lamb.
Other specialties include sweet potato baked with cheese and guarou.
Guarou is lean pork preserved in a sweet, salty sauce before serving. Pieces of meat are hung on a small stand when served to keep every drop of the sauce coating the meat.
Although the sweet potato baked with cheese has won much praise, the restaurant only makes 20 a day. First come, first served.
Address: 236 Dadou Rd
Tel: (0571) 5811-1525
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