Sweet and sour carp belongs to Shandong cuisine, one of the four major cuisines in China
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The dish of sweet and sour carp, in the past, when a daughter was married, Or if someone in the family was admitted to the top scorer, they would eat this fish. The shape of this dish means “carp jumping over the dragon’s gate”, it means good luck. It is a famous dish in Chinese Shandong cuisine.
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