Guimanlong-jinxiujiangnan (wanxiangcheng)

During the Spring Festival holiday, I went to the MixC store in Guimanlong for dinner. Because there were few people during the Spring Festival, I waited for nearly an hour. While waiting, I ordered the dishes on my phone, including Dongpo Half Chicken, Steamed East China Sea Yellow Croaker with Aged Wine, and Jintanghang Three Fresh. When my number was called, I sat down and scanned the table number, and then placed the order. Jintanghang Three Fresh and Dongpo Half Chicken have been reviewed before. Today I will review a new dish - Steamed East China Sea Yellow Croaker with Aged Wine. The yellow croaker weighing about 1.2 jin is used. Five cuts are made on the fish, and ham slices are embedded. It is steamed with aged wine. It looks good when served, with the aroma of wine, ham, and fish intertwined. The fish meat is tender and smooth, and it is quite delicious!

Guimanlong•Jinxiu Jiangnan (Vanxiangcheng Store) is located on the fourth floor of Vanxiangcheng on Wuzhong Road, next to the ice rink at the easternmost end. The environment inside and outside is great. I reviewed this restaurant yesterday, but forgot to upload photos. I will make up for it today and comment on the dishes. This time I ordered West Lake Crispy Vinegar Fish, Jintang Hangzhou Three Fresh, and Minced Pork Eggplant. West Lake Crispy Vinegar Fish is a modified version of the classic West Lake Vinegar Fish in traditional Hangzhou cuisine. It uses sea bass, which is much less fishy than the traditional grass carp, and has more meat and fewer bones. After being fried in oil, it is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The sauce has a light vinegar flavor, which is appetizing and delicious. Jintang Hangzhou Three Fresh uses ingredients including smoked fish, river shrimp, quail eggs, bamboo shoots, cabbage, rice cakes, etc., and then uses salted egg yolk to make soup. It has a rich taste and good color, aroma and taste. Minced Pork Eggplant, a home-cooked dish, the ingredients taste good, but the appearance seems to be not energetic enough. Overall, the flaws are not enough to cover the merits. It is a restaurant with high cost performance.

The decoration is nice, but I like the dishes inside better. Hangzhou cuisine is more suitable for me, without strong spices and mild salty taste. Dongpo chicken is more to my liking than Dongpo pork because it does not have a lot of fat.

Guimanlong's Hangzhou cuisine has been popular in Shanghai for a long time. It is delicious and affordable. Even though the price of dishes has been raised recently, it is still a good value for money overall. At Guimanlong MixC store, two people ordered the Dongpo half-side chicken and Jintang Hangzhou three fresh dishes that they loved before, and also ordered the new dish steamed East China Sea yellow croaker with aged wine. Dongpo half-side chicken and Jintang Hangzhou three fresh dishes are delicious and tasty. Although the price has increased, they are still in the high cost-effective series with sufficient quantity and stable quality. The new dish steamed East China Sea yellow croaker with aged wine is not a Hangzhou style, but more like Shaoxing cuisine and Ningbo cuisine. The yellow croaker is a little big and not easy to taste, so the fish body is cut into flowery cuts, and a piece of bacon is put into each cut. After eating, I feel that the fish meat is still light, and the bacon is more suitable for rice. This new dish is not ideal! The waiter here is polite and told that there is a discount for online payment, 9.8% off, which is a little smaller, but better than nothing! 😄

"Gui Man Long", a famous chain restaurant brand of Hangzhou cuisine, is always so prosperous. I went to Gui Man Long's "canteen" for dinner on holiday two days ago. Two people ordered nourishing beggar's chicken, West Lake crispy vinegar fish, and stone pot tofu. They are all famous Hangzhou dishes. I have been there many times before. Needless to say, they are delicious and delicious. This time there are new highlights. When I tasted beggar's chicken before, I found that the "wind", "flower", "snow" and "moon" written on the side of the seasoning dish were very cultural. This time, in addition to "wind, flowers, snow and moon", the beggar's chicken was full of ritual. The young man carried a big long-handled food basket to serve the dishes. The round food cans in the basket were covered with red sealing paper, and the long handle of the basket was wrapped with fine-leafed green willow branches. The young man handed over a wooden hammer with a gourd-shaped front end and a red ribbon tied around the neck of the hammer. When the diners knocked on the food pot once, the young man chanted "One knock for good fortune"; knocked it again, the young man chanted "Two knocks for peace and prosperity"; and knocked it for the last time, the young man dragged out the last word and chanted "Three knocks for a house full of gold and jade"! Every word was auspicious, and both the host and the guests were happy...

At noon on the weekend, I went to Mixc for lunch. I waited for an hour at the familiar Guimanlong. The business was really good! Two people ordered West Lake Vinegar Fish, Dongpo Half Chicken and Jintang Hangzhou Three Fresh. West Lake Vinegar Fish is a modified version of the famous Hangzhou dish West Lake Vinegar Fish. It used to be made with grass carp. Although it was covered with vinegar, it was always earthy and had many fish bones. Now it is made with mandarin fish. The ingredients are of higher quality, with fewer fish bones and improved taste. Moreover, for the price of 78 yuan, you can eat mandarin fish, which is quite cost-effective. Dongpo Half Chicken and Jintang Hangzhou Three Fresh are both dishes with relatively high click rates in Guimanlong. They are delicious and tasty. I just mentioned them in one stroke.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, it is customary to eat zongzi, but it is too easy to fill your stomach. One zongzi solves a meal, which reduces the fun of food. So one zongzi is enough, and there are many delicious foods to choose from for the remaining meals! For example, if you go to Guimanlong for a meal, it is good to pick a few dishes and snacks that you like! 1. West Lake Vinegar Fish, an improved version of West Lake Vinegar Fish, the traditional grass carp is replaced by sea bass, which has no muddy smell and fewer fish bones. After deep-frying, it is poured with vinegar sauce. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It is really better than the traditional West Lake Vinegar Fish, and it has become popular among young and old. It is a very successful improvement. 2. Stone pot tofu, it is served piping hot, fragrant and full of temptation. Take a bite, blow it, be careful not to burn your mouth! Taste it, the tofu is tender, the Hangzhou pepper is spicy, and it complements each other perfectly. 3. Red bean curd clams, when served, white mist lingers, a few green leaves are looming in the mist, and a large pot of bright red clams is surrounded in the middle, full of fairy air, which is already mouth-watering! Fresh clams are cooked in bright red and salty fermented bean curd sauce, the color is bright red and beautiful, the clam meat has the freshness and saltiness of the fermented bean curd sauce, and it is not too salty. Once you start eating, you can't stop... 4. Chicken juice steamed buns, not big, one or two or five, pork filling, with chicken juice, you can still taste the freshness of chicken soup. 5. Huatian ice jelly, cold and tender, the best taste in summer, full of portion, a big bowl. In short, Guimanlong's dishes are delicious, and there are often some new reforms.