LOUWAILOU

A former home of Hangzhou founded in 1848. This restaurant is an obligatory place for gourmets while staying in Hangzhou. It's a great place to stay, especially during the weekend and during the holidays. You must taste the specialities of the house which are renowned dishes of the region: beggar chicken, chicken cooked and served in a lotus leaf. For the little story, a beggar would have stolen a chicken from a farmer. Having no oven, he would have wrapped it in a lotus sheet to do leather. The chicken is delicately scented by the lotus leaf. Cooked with yellow wine and onions, chicken is stuffed with pork stuffing.

But also shrimp from the lake to Thé tea (Longjing xiaren) or lake fish to sour sour sauce (tangcu yu). Many of the historical figures have eaten lunch among them Sun Yat-sen, the famous contemporary writer Lu Xun or the former Prime Minister of the Republic Zhou Enlai.