China News Agency, Shanghai, March 14th, title: Shanghai Green Corridor, a "point" banquet for the world

  China News Agency reporter Xu Jing

  In the afternoon of spring, the Jiuqu Bridge in Shanghai Yu Garden is bustling with people. Some "foreign faces" in the crowd look here and there, and they feel fresh everywhere. Fresh cotton candy is made on the roadside, and the specialty shops are booming. Lubolang Restaurant, Nanxiang There is a long queue in front of the bun shop.

  When visiting Yu Garden in Shanghai, you must walk the Jiuqu Bridge and try the unique Lubolang dim sum in Shanghai.

  The Lubolang Restaurant, which is praised by netizens as "Shanghai Ladies", is located beside the Jiuqu Bridge. The Huxin Pavilion forms an interesting contrast.

The diners sit by the window, the blue waves and green water outside the window, the graceful and long Jiuqu bridge, which corresponds to the meaning of "green wave corridor" - the spring water and green waves are poetic, and the corridor and vermilion pavilion are charming.

  However, the Green Wave Gallery full of classical charm cannot "get out of the circle" without foreign guests visiting China.

  Eyebrow cakes, bag cakes, gourd cakes, jujube paste cakes, sweet-scented osmanthus cake... Lubolang dim sum with excellent color, fragrance and shape can be called "a feast for the world".

  In 1986, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visited Shanghai. Lu Yaming, who is now the general manager of Lvbolang and one of the "Top Ten Famous Chefs in Asia", participated in the reception work at that time.

In the Yu Garden, the Queen climbed the Jiuqu Bridge to appreciate the style of the ancient city; while drinking tea and tasting snacks in the Huxin Pavilion, she admired the silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River.

Lu Yaming was responsible for the production of Fengwei Shaomai, animal-shaped boats and other dim sum, which were praised by the queen again and again.

  In his many years of foreign affairs reception experience, Lu Yaming was also deeply impressed by the reception of US President Clinton and his relatives with sweet-scented osmanthus cakes and jujube cakes.

  The sweet-scented osmanthus cake in Lubolang is glutinous and fragrant. It is characterized by sticking to plates, sticking chopsticks, and not sticking to teeth, but it has become a difficult problem for Clinton when dining.

Clinton, who claimed to have practiced "chopstick skills" in the United States for more than a month, ate a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake in exchange for three pairs of chopsticks, leaving behind the anecdote of "one cake for three meals".

The sweet-scented osmanthus cake in Lubolang has an additional name - "Clinton's cake".

  "Our dim sum pays attention to good-looking, delicious, and good craftsmanship." Lu Yaming said that the simpler the ingredients, the higher the requirements for the selection of ingredients and production methods.

Take sweet-scented osmanthus cake as an example. The ingredients of this dessert only need glutinous rice flour, sugar, sweet-scented osmanthus, and water. However, the glutinous rice flour used as raw material was determined to be Thai glutinous rice flour after purchasing nearly ten kinds of comparison tests. After many years Tried and tested, selected caster sugar that can make the cake body more transparent, and for the best taste, the cake needs to be naturally cooled for 8 hours after steaming.

  Foucault, a Spanish guy who is engaged in foreign language teaching in Shanghai, has a "soft spot" for sweet-scented osmanthus cakes.

During the Spring Festival this year, he went to Lvbo Lang to order sweet-scented osmanthus cake and jujube cake. "This reminded me of the Spanish custom of eating grapes when counting down to the New Year," he said.

  "We have our own standards for making Chinese-style pastry, and at the same time, we have always insisted on innovation." Lu Yaming said that the "explosive style" bag crisp in recent years is the result of innovation.

  Carry bag crisp, which looks like a lady's hand bag. The brown handle is mainly made of cocoa powder and flour. And change.

According to Lu Yaming, the research and development of the puff pastry was "tailor-made" for the reception of the chairman of a high-end French department store, which amazed the French guests.

  In 2000, the Slovak Folk Dance Troupe was invited to participate in the Shanghai Tourism Festival tour.

After the tourism festival closed, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipality invited the dance troupe to Lubo Lang to taste dim sum.

"The average per capita is tens of yuan, and you can eat delicious food and have Shanghai characteristics." Zhang Xiaohang, a former staff member of the Shanghai Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, recalled that the dance troupe tasted the "Clinton same set meal" and "the whole group had a great time eating ".

  In addition to the "Presidential Set Menu", the exquisite and compact "Madam Set" is also very popular among diners.

  When the CICA Summit was held in Shanghai in 2014, Lvbolang prepared four kinds of Shanghai traditional snacks for the first ladies of the countries, namely Gourd Cake, Longevity Peach, Shunfeng Leaf, and Mini Rice Dumplings.

Gourd crisps, implying good fortune and auspiciousness, the 13 thin lines that wrap the mini rice dumplings correspond to the strokes of the Chinese character "Fu"..."Innovation does not forget the original, inheritance does not keep the old", Lu Yaming said, "everything changes without leaving the original, and never changes. What has changed is the flavor of China.”

  Today, Lubolang has included dim sum for heads of state and distinguished guests on the menu at a low price, allowing more citizens and tourists to enjoy the delicious food.

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