Traveling to Chengdu and eating is an absolutely indispensable theme. As a representative city of Sichuan cuisine, Chengdu attracts tourists from all over the world not only because of its various well-known tourist attractions, but also because of its rich cuisine.
Spicy pots, skewers and other delicacies are well-known and have spread all over the country. There is also a very special dish in Chengdu, many foreigners can't get their mouths down, but it is the beloved of locals, which is - rabbit head.
It has always been rumored on the Internet that Sichuan people eat 300 million rabbit heads every year, and Chengdu alone eats 200 million a year, although this data may not be true, but in Chengdu as long as it is a place to do catering, almost all rabbit heads are sold.
Sometimes passing by a brine shop, seeing dozens of rabbit heads stacked on the shelves of the cabinet, you will wonder: this rabbit head does not look like much meat, what is delicious, and not like pig heads, fish heads, eat rabbit legs, rabbit body is not fragrant?
Not to mention, Chengdu people really eat rabbit heads to the point of madness.
In fact, the history of Chengdu people eating rabbit heads is not very long, which goes back to more than 20 years ago when Chengdu Shuangliu County (now Shuangliu District) opened a spicy and hot family.
The little boy of this shop did not know how to be fascinated by eating rabbit heads, but at that time, no restaurant in Shuangliu would sell rabbit heads, so the mother opened her mind and put the rabbit heads into a spicy pot to cook, and the result was that the rabbit heads cooked were better than the son's eating outside.
After continuous improvement in ingredients, the rabbit head has become her own signature, which is the "shuangliu old mother rabbit head" that Chengdu people know.
Although rabbit heads are now in Shuangliu, Chengdu, and Sichuan, the practices are also diverse.
There are even many restaurants that also use the sign of "Shuangliu Old Mother Rabbit Head Branch" to solicit customers, but many Chengdu people will run to Shuangliu's "originator shop" to eat in order to eat the most authentic rabbit head, and even many foreign tourists also come to eat.
So why do Chengdu people love to eat rabbit heads so much? Where is the rabbit head delicious? Some people say that the nutritional value of rabbit head is high, some people say that rabbit head is low in calories, and some people say that eating rabbit head will become a master of KISS.
In fact, there is only one direct reason: people can make rabbit heads very delicious.
After all, Sichuan was originally based on eating spicy, with spicy sauce, you can turn those seemingly useless and unfortunate ingredients into treasures, like duck head, duck neck is also from waste wood to food, so Chengdu people who love "eating rabbits" will naturally not abandon the rabbit head.
Although rabbit head is a delicious food that is difficult for Chengdu people to give up, most outsiders still have difficulty in eating rabbit head.
Not only because "rabbits are spicy and cute", but also because rabbit head meat is less bone and more bones, it is not very exciting to eat; and because rabbits are not ordinary people's daily dishes, let alone rabbit heads.
Therefore, foreign tourists come to Chengdu, come to Shuangliu to eat rabbit head, mainly to figure out a sense of freshness, even if you can't bear to "eat rabbits", you will break the ring to try it, and as a result, there are many foreign tourists who are addicted to eating.
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Putting aside the nutritional value and other functional attributes of the rabbit head itself, in fact, it is the fusion of the essence of Sichuan flavor and the rabbit head that makes the rabbit head a famous food in Chengdu.
So have you ever eaten a rabbit head? If you come to Chengdu, do you want to try to nibble on the rabbit's head?