No Henan person can refuse a bowl of peppery soup, and this is true.
In the hearts of the Luoyang people, the soup of the gods can be beef soup, mutton soup, donkey broth and even tofu soup, but the first place may not be Hu spicy soup.
Luoyang people prefer pepper to pepper soup and are better at cooking with pepper.
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Peppery soup at the top of Henan cuisine
The people of Luoyang did not buy it
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When it comes to Henan's cuisine, whether it is a local or a foreigner, peppery soup is an unavoidable topic.
Recently, there is a news, the headline is like this: Beijing netizens hungry Henan Peppery Soup, called the errands brother to take the high-speed rail to deliver food, a single 2,000 yuan, the keywords at a glance.
The content is simply that a Henan villager living in Beijing is homesick and wants to eat the peppery soup from his hometown, so he called a UU to run errands and let him take the high-speed train from Zhengzhou, Henan to deliver food.
As we all know, there is a kind of nostalgia called the food of the hometown.
For Henan people, Peppery Soup is not only related to the taste buds, but also carries the taste of home.
This food, which was disliked by the Chinese director Chen Xiaoqing on the tip of the tongue, sold badly, was not photogenic, but it was delicious, and it grabbed the stomach of more than 100 million Henan people deadly.
Many friends from other places can't go home, can't eat braised noodles and peppery soup, so it is common to pin their thoughts on their hometown on fast-food peppery soup.
Open a treasure, the most popular fast food peppery soup, monthly sales of tens of thousands, of which how many wanderers who miss home.
In fact, not only foreigners, but even locals can't resist the aroma of peppery soup, and every few days they comfort themselves with a bowl of peppery soup.
Henan people love to say, "medium" and "strong", is the meaning of comfortable and comfortable. For most Henan people, there is no more comfortable food than a bowl of peppery soup in the morning.
This emotion can be seen in the streets and alleys of peppery soup shops, and 80% of the most eye-catching breakfast restaurants on each street are peppery soup restaurants.
Every morning, crowds line up to order a bowl of peppery soup with churros or a pickle. The small shop is usually crowded with people, and it is really impossible to sit down, even the flower bed opposite the store, and the diners move a small bench to feast.
Peppery soup can be said to be the philosophy of life of Henan people.
Not exactly, but in one place in Henan, the peppery soup is not so popular, and in Luoyang City, west of Henan Province, the peppery soup really has no status.
It is not that the people of Luoyang do not like to drink soup, but they are too good at drinking soup.
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How can you miss the soup in Luoyang
Of course, Luoyang people also drink peppery soup, like to drink, and there are many shops.
However, if you want to ask the luoyang people's favorite soup, the first place may not be The peppery soup.
I'm a native of Luoyang, and when I was in high school, soup was all on the menu of the cafeteria: beef soup, ball soup, and tofu soup.
It only costs about five dollars, which is economical and affordable, and the 20-minute meal time can't stop our pace, even if we stand, we have to choose to drink.
You may have to ask, why is there no peppery soup?
In fact, luoyang people are not so enthusiastic about the love of peppery soup, mainly luoyang soup is really variety. Luoyang's soup can reach twenty or thirty kinds, and it is not repeated for a week in turn, and the peppery soup is not so outstanding.
Authentic Luoyang people pay attention to drinking head soup, and when the first rays of sunlight hit the ground, Luoyang people are already in line to drink soup.
Many Luoyang people will even cross most of the city for a good soup.
Most of luoyang's beef soup does not put salt, that is, "sweet" soup, pay attention to the freshness and mellowness of the soup, milky white soup down the throat, warm and silky, taste buds and perception in a moment to reach the peak.
I prefer "salty soup". Beef and green onion are poured into the soup, drizzled with oil and spicy seeds, salted by yourself, and the shredded bread is soaked in the soup, and the aroma is fragrant. Not only beef soup, but also mutton soup and donkey broth.
If you think the meat is too greasy, you can completely bowl vegetarian soup, tofu soup, ball soup.
Although the tofu soup is a vegetarian soup, the ingredients are complete: white tofu as the main ingredient, ginger as an accessory, plus blanched vermicelli, oil tofu shreds and lettuce, sprinkle some green onions and chili oil, pour the soup on top, fresh and fragrant.
Don't look at the tofu soup is simple, just the oil should be fried with more than a dozen spices such as fragrant leaves, cumin, star anise, cloves, cinnamon, etc., the tender tofu like mutton fat, boxy, not broken, not broken, just bite on it, the bean flavor will be integrated with the soup flavor.
In such a comparison, Peppery Soup really does not rank high in Luoyang. And beef soup and mutton soup also have a huge advantage, that is, a pot of drinking for the whole family.
Although peppery soup cannot occupy the taste of Luoyang people, pepper, an important raw material of pepper soup, has long been used by Luoyang people.
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Luoyang, which does not produce pepper
Can't do without pepper
Luoyang's soup is not limited to this, the water mat that has been passed down for more than a thousand years is the signature of Luoyang cuisine.
The water mat has two characteristics, one is that all the hot dishes are soup and water, a total of 24 dishes, the whole dish is soup; the other is that the dish is like a flowing water, eating one and then going up one.
One of the first dishes is the peony swallow dish that conquered Wu Zetian.
The eclipse on the b station reproduced the peony swallow dish a few days ago, and the radish silk inside can pass through the needle, and the silk is uniform, the dish is on the table, and a blooming peony flower in the middle instantly absorbs countless powder.
Many netizens are attracted by its high appearance and do not perceive the most important link, that is, pepper.
Pepper, let the peony swallow vegetables have a soul in terms of taste, once into the mouth a little choked, after the aftertaste can never forget.
In addition, there are also soup slices, charred croquettes, etc. in the water mat, and the taste is salty and sweet, thick and oligo, but most of them need pepper embellishment.
So many foreigners went to Luoyang to try the water mat, disappointed, feel that it is soup and water, the taste is also sour and spicy.
What they don't know is that soup, water and pepper are the soul of the Luoyang diet.
Not only the water mat, beef and mutton soup, belly soup, etc. basically need pepper seasoning. Luoyang locals even eat braised noodles and wontons and use pepper to mix soup.
You may not imagine that pepper is the most common condiment in Luoyang.
My family is no exception, even if the noodles I eat every day, do not put chili oil, but put white pepper and vinegar to taste, it is mild and sour, not too spicy.
In the dry and cold winter, a bowl of peppery food is simply refreshing and refreshing, and there is a spirit throughout the day.
The origin of pepper and Luoyang should start from a long time ago, Luoyang, as the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, witnessed the rise of dynasties, in this process the Luoyang people began to try beef, mutton, and then there is a spice that is still used today - pepper.
Pepper is beautiful, a pinch of pepper, piled up into Luoyang's food culture.
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