Zhejiang Cuisine · FFET10020
Songsao Fish Soup
Volume 13 of Mengliang lu records Songsao fish soup outside Qiantang Gate.
Mural guide
A West Lake vinegar fish glazed with sauce lies on a plate, a bowl beside it holds Longjing shrimp, a square piece of Dongpo pork gleams soy-brown in a clay pot, and a few tea leaves lie at the edge.
The regional cooking of Zhejiang, with Hangzhou attentive to the season and Ningbo skilled with seafood.
The section on shops in volume 13 of the Southern Song Mengliang lu lists noted shops in the markets of Hangzhou. Among them it records “Song Wusao’s fish soup outside Qiantang Gate”, tying the soup to Song Wusao’s shop there.