Dried Shrimp Meat Noodles Mixed With Scallion, Fragrance Spreading Far
1 min readThe Dried Shrimp Meat Noodles Mixed With Scallion restaurant,located in Shanghai old Town God’s Temple gourmet square is the flagship of Shanghai pastry school of Noodles Mixed With Scallion.Why use the name”Dried Shrimp Meat”?Actually,it refers to pickled and dried shrimps,shrimps that taste salty but fresh.
The Dried Shrimp Meat Noodles Mixed With Scallion have existed for over a hundred years.As the story goes,during late Qing Dynasty,a dim sum chef named Chen Youzhi whose ancestral home was in Northern Jiangsu opened a stall by the lake in front of”Chun Feng De Yi”teahouse of Shanghai old Town God’s Temple, selling his finely processed homeland snack Dried Shrimp Meat Noodles Mixed With Scallion and winning good reputation for the special taste.Some patrons who liked the noodles very much gave the noodles the nickname”Snack with scent spreading beyond the zigzag bridge”.Very soon the fragrant noodles became one of the most special traditional snacks in old Town God’s Temple.
In the year 1958,the stall of Chen was incorporated into the dim sum shop by the lake.Since then the business was booming,attracting a lot of patronage. Afterwards,many shops began to follow suit and spread this variety of snack tO other places.