■ Taste new tea by new fire, Enjoy poem and wine since you are young
   A Supposition of "Dragon Well Shrimp Kernel"

The material of "Dragon Well Shrimp Kernel" is large live river shrimp, cooked with fresh tea newly grown up around Chinese Tomb-sweeping Day. This is a famous dish with Hangzhou's traditional flavor specialized by white and delicate shrimp kernel, green and fragrant lotus leaf, pleasing color, and unique taste.

Some one is saying that people were enlightened by the great litterateur, Su Dongpo's verse and made out Dragon Well Shrimp Kernel. One sentence of his verse generally described like this: Not miss your homeland with your old friends, just taste the new tea by new fire. Enjoy poem and wine since you are young. In old times, there was a custom that on the day before Chinese Tomb-sweeping Day, it was forbidden to use fire. After this day, the fired burned was called new fire. And the tea picked at this time was called new tea, the best of Dragon Well tea. People associated it with the fresh river shrimp and cooked Dragon Well Shrimp Kernel with new fire. They found the taste delicious, and the feature special, therefore they preserved this cooking style.

But whether on earth is Dragon Well Shrimp Kernel really originated from this, we could never know. This is just a supposition, just for reference.