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On
autumn,1929,Yu Youren viewed sweet-scented osmanthus around Tai
lake.At that night,he put himself up Mudu and eated at Shijia Restaurant.After
he drink three bowls of Bafei Soup,he felt delicious and wrote a
improvisational poem:
"sweet-scented
osmanthus is sweet when it blossoms out,view sweet-scented osmanthus
around Tai lake,recall my returning to Mudu,I still want to degust
Bafei Soup again"
On
autumn,1934,Yu Youren came to Shijia Restaurant again and inscribed
the signboard"well-known
in Jiangnan".The story that Yu Youren and L i
Gengyuan inscribed for Shijia Restaurnat spreaded fast.From then
on,Bafei Soup and Shijia Restaurant is widely known not only in
Jiangnan,but also all over the country.
Besides
ten known dishes,there is another famous dish,"tomato shelled
shrimp crispy rice"This dish has a monicker"first dish
all over the world".It was said that when Emperor Qianlong
third visited Jiangnan ,he cryptially
inspected Mudu and had dinner in Shijai Restaurant.The cook deepfried
crispy rice and extracted shelled shrimp togather with chicken pieces
and chicken soup.When he watered crispy rice with thick extract,it
made a "zhizhi"sound and smelt sweet- scented.Qianlong
thought highly of it after he had degusted the crispy rice and said
that"this dish is firstly all over the world".The dish
has other monicker"bomb aggressors"During the war fighting
against Japan in Shanghai,Cai Tingkai,a noted Gen,the army corps
commander of the Nineteenth Road Army,had quartered in Shijia Restaurant
for two months.He said good while degusting this dish and asked
dish title,the answer was "bomb
aggressors".The Gen stroke the table and shouted bravo.The
dish has another funny monicker"a lighting bolt".There
was a legend of this monicker.Long long ago, the Tai lake flooded
frequently and people had to reinforce the dyke regularly.Some year,an
imperial envoy was appointed to supervise constructing dyke.When
the project completed,the imperial envoy was invited to Shijia Restaurant
by local authority.They eated and waited for the success news.At
midnight,the cook saw a crispy rice.He hated the mealfeasants and
had an idea.He cut the crispy rice into rhombic pieces and deepfried
them.Then he extracted the leftover ,such as ham, shelled shrimp,fungusand
tomato,etc ,having done all,he served the dish.When he watered crispy
rice with thick extract,it made a "zhizhi"sound.The imperial
envoy was waken up and asked the dish title.The cook showed resoucefulness
in an emergency and answered that "this is a lighting bolt,which
is cooked congratulating on closure of dyke.As soon as he answered,a
hurrah was heard.The dyke was closure.the imperial envoy praise
this dish "dexter,dexter"� |
