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	\| alternate_name = Song Sao fish soup; Song's fish chowder; Hangzhou Sister Song soup		\| alternate_name = Song Sao fish soup; Song's fish chowder; sai xie geng; Hangzhou Sister Song soup
	\| pinyin = Sòng sǎo yú gēng		\| pinyin = Sòng sǎo yú gēng
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	'''Sister Song's Fish Soup''' (Simplified Chinese: 宋嫂鱼羹; Traditional Chinese: 宋嫂魚羹; Pinyin: ''Sòng sǎo yú gēng'') is a Hangzhou classic of finely flaked freshwater fish in a thickened savory soup, traditionally linked to a Song~~-dynasty~~ lakeside vendor known as Sister Song. It is a Hangzhou name dish alongside [[West Lake Vinegar Fish]] on [[Zhejiang Food]].		'''Sister Song's Fish Soup''' (Simplified Chinese: 宋嫂鱼羹; Traditional Chinese: 宋嫂魚羹; Pinyin: ''Sòng sǎo yú gēng'') is a Hangzhou classic of finely flaked freshwater fish in a thickened savory soup, traditionally linked to a Southern Song lakeside vendor known as Sister Song (Song Wusou). It is a Hangzhou name dish alongside [[West Lake Vinegar Fish]] on [[Zhejiang Food]], yet the modern restaurant soup and the vinegar-fish plate are different preparations that later naming history sometimes blurred.<ref name="zhwp">[https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%8B%E5%AB%82%E9%B1%BC%E7%BE%B9 Chinese Wikipedia — 宋嫂鱼羹]</ref>

	== Characteristics ==		== Characteristics ==

	~~Soup~~ is silky ~~and egg-~~thickened or ~~starch~~-~~thickened; fish is boneless shreds~~. ~~Flavor~~ is ~~savory and gently seasoned rather~~ than vinegar-~~forward like~~ [[West Lake Vinegar Fish]].		The contemporary banquet form is a silky, lightly thickened geng: boneless fish shreds suspended in a pale gold to ivory broth, often with fine ham or bamboo-shoot threads for savor and contrast. Seasoning is gentle—savory, lightly peppery, wine-fragrant—rather than the sharp vinegar-sugar profile of [[West Lake Vinegar Fish]]. Restaurant marketing sometimes calls the soup “sai xie geng” (赛蟹羹, “rivaling crab soup”) because the flaked fish and liaison can suggest crabmeat richness without using crab as the main protein.<ref name="zhwp" />

			Texture aims for boneless ease and spoonable thickness; it is a banquet soup course, not a rustic free-swimming fish stew.

	== Ingredients (overview) ==		== Ingredients (overview) ==

	~~Freshwater~~ fish ~~(often~~ perch-type~~), eggs~~ or starch ~~for~~ liaison~~, ham or bamboo shoot shreds in many restaurant versions,~~ stock, Shaoxing wine, white pepper.		Typical components (encyclopedic overview, not a recipe): freshwater fish such as mandarin fish or perch-type species; egg or starch liaison; stock; Shaoxing wine; white pepper; optional ham, bamboo shoot, or mushroom shreds. This page does not provide step-by-step ratios.

	== History and culture ==		== History and culture ==

	Hangzhou / West Lake culinary ~~legend preserved in Zhe~~ cuisine ~~narratives~~ on [[~~Zhejiang Food~~]]~~; banquet~~ soup ~~rather than street bowl~~.		Southern Song sources supply the cultural lead. Zhou Mi’s ''Wulin jiushi'' recounts that in 1179 the retired emperor Gaozong, boating on West Lake, summoned a fish-soup vendor Song Wusou—a Kaifeng migrant who had followed the court south—and rewarded her; later city guides such as ''Mengliang lu'' list “Song Wusou fish geng” among famous Hangzhou shops near Qiantang Gate. These passages establish a named vendor and a popular soup brand; they do not preserve a kitchen recipe identical to today’s plate.<ref name="gmr">[https://epaper.neamco.com/gmrb/html/2018-11/30/nw.D110000gmrb_20181130_2-15.htm Guangming Daily: Song Wusou culinary notes]</ref><ref name="zhwp" />

			From the Qing into the Republican era, literati and lakeside restaurants sometimes conflated “Song’s fish” fame with vinegar-slipped West Lake fish (today’s [[West Lake Vinegar Fish]]). Modern Hangzhou kitchens generally separate the two: vinegar fish as a whole or large-cut sweet-sour fish entrée, and Song Sao soup as a thickened flake geng. Mid-twentieth-century cookbooks and restaurant practice helped stabilize the “sai xie geng” style now sold under the Song Sao name—treat that stabilization as culinary history, not proof that every Song-dynasty bowl matched the present liaison soup.<ref name="zhwp" />

			On [[Zhejiang Food]], Sister Song’s Fish Soup stands for West Lake storytelling cuisine: dishes whose prestige rides as much on Hangzhou place narrative as on technique. Tourist menus pair it with vinegar fish and [[Longjing Shrimp]] as a Hangzhou trio of lake-and-tea imagery.


			Modern Hangzhou tourism continues to stage Song Sao as lakeside heritage—statues, restaurant murals, and set menus that pair the soup with vinegar fish—while food historians remind readers that the Southern Song vendor story and the mid-century “sai xie geng” kitchen form are linked by name and place, not by unbroken recipe manuscript. That layered history is typical of West Lake famous dishes: textual fame first, restaurant stabilization later.

	== Serving and variations ==		== Serving and variations ==

	Banquet soup course. ~~See [[Zhejiang Food]]~~ and [[West Lake Vinegar Fish]].		Banquet soup course, usually hot, in a shared tureen or individual bowls. House versions vary fish species, liaison thickness, and garnish shreds. Keep conceptually distinct from [[West Lake Vinegar Fish]] despite shared lakeside branding.

	== See also ==		== See also ==
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	* [[DongPo Stewed Pork]]		* [[DongPo Stewed Pork]]
	* [[List of dishes (A-Z)]]		* [[List of dishes (A-Z)]]

			== References ==
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{{Infobox chinese food
| image = Sister Song's Fish Soup.jpg
| caption = Sister Song's Fish Soup
| alternate_name = Song Sao fish soup; Song's fish chowder; Hangzhou Sister Song soup
| pinyin = Sòng sǎo yú gēng
| type = Fish thick soup
| course = Soup / banquet
| country = China
| region = Zhejiang (Hangzhou)
| other = Hangzhou classic thick fish soup attributed to Sister Song; peer to West Lake Vinegar Fish
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'''Sister Song's Fish Soup''' (Simplified Chinese: 宋嫂鱼羹; Traditional Chinese: 宋嫂魚羹; Pinyin: ''Sòng sǎo yú gēng'') is a Hangzhou classic of finely flaked freshwater fish in a thickened savory soup, traditionally linked to a Song-dynasty lakeside vendor known as Sister Song. It is a Hangzhou name dish alongside [[West Lake Vinegar Fish]] on [[Zhejiang Food]].

== Characteristics ==

Soup is silky and egg-thickened or starch-thickened; fish is boneless shreds. Flavor is savory and gently seasoned rather than vinegar-forward like [[West Lake Vinegar Fish]].

== Ingredients (overview) ==

Freshwater fish (often perch-type), eggs or starch for liaison, ham or bamboo shoot shreds in many restaurant versions, stock, Shaoxing wine, white pepper.

== History and culture ==

Hangzhou / West Lake culinary legend preserved in Zhe cuisine narratives on [[Zhejiang Food]]; banquet soup rather than street bowl.

== Serving and variations ==

Banquet soup course. See [[Zhejiang Food]] and [[West Lake Vinegar Fish]].

== See also ==

* [[Zhejiang Food]]
* [[West Lake Vinegar Fish]]
* [[Longjing Shrimp]]
* [[DongPo Stewed Pork]]
* [[List of dishes (A-Z)]]

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