China Hefei - Traditional Village Cuisine土菜

Yesterday was an important day in the project that I was overseeing here in Hefei... as the whole plant's electricity was shut down, so that the new electricity cubicle can be connected to the existing system.....

As for me, electricity shut down means canteen got nobody is working and that also means that my lunch supply is "cut" and hence, I went to a local restaurant (meaning those small restaurant you see by the road side!!) to have my meal.

Putting the hygienic of the environment aside, I think their food is authentic..... As you can see, we ordered 4 dishes.

This Chicken-in-the-wok is a village style cooking in which the chicken itself is a free-range chicken, hence the meat is tender. On top of that, it was covered with bread-style pancake. Hence, besides eating the mild & spicy delicious chicken, the bread is also being eaten together with the pancake dipped in the warm gravy.......

There is a steam fish head with salted black bean paste & chilly.... Likewise, this is a village style cooking and the most important is that this fish contains not much "small bones" like any other fishes served across the mainland China.

Then, here comes the "sweet & sour chicken" which is something like the Cantonese style "sweet & sour pork". But the Chinese calling for this dish is actually "sugar vinegar chicken", and I bet they cooked with Tomato paste too. Look at those red colour........

As for vegetables, we had the lotus which is stir-fried rather than boil in soup as I always have it at home. The salty taste is being spiced up with a little bit of vinegar. Wow, trust me.. it's appetizing...