Famous dishes in Hefei have a long history and belong to an important part of Anhui cuisine. They are good at cooking, stewing, frying, stewing, frying and sliding. Pay attention to firepower, be good at keeping the original flavor of dishes, especially pay attention to "color", "fragrance" and "taste", so the dishes made are pure in soup color, mellow in taste and full of fragrance.

According to legend, Song Renzong once asked Bao Zheng about the tribute of Hefei specialty. In order to reduce the burden of the old-age tribute for the hometown folks, Bao Zheng ordered that the scrawny eel and the old turtle be made into two dishes, namely, the arrow-axis eel and the horseshoe turtle, which were presented to Emperor Injong respectively.

Song Renzong was naturally unhappy when he saw that the eel in this dish was very small and the turtle was like a horseshoe, but it was hard to say that the tribute given by Bao Gong was really stingy, so he said, "Luzhou is thin and poor. How come even the eel looks as delicate as an orphan's imperial pen, but this turtle is as big as money. Bao Zheng, is this a specialty of your hometown? "

Bao Zheng replied: "Long live my hometown, where there is drought every year, and there is no tribute for the New Year. I can only offer these two hometown dishes. I hope to taste them for a long time. " Injong took a bite of Bao Zheng's noodles, but he didn't want the eel to get smaller, and the taste was tender and abnormal, so he couldn't help eating it. He happily accepted these two dishes as the annual tribute of Hefei.

Bao Zheng originally wanted to exempt the people in his hometown from some taxes, but he didn't want the emperor to appreciate it. To this end, he also named these two dishes "Imperial Pen Monopterus albus" and "Money Turtle". Since then, these two dishes have been widely circulated in Kaifeng, Hefei and other places, especially in the annual Duanyang Festival, Hefei people like to eat two dishes.