Master Lv Rixin demonstrates the steps of filling, sealing and other steps Li Xiaochun photo
Zhongxin Network Jiangmen October 18 Title: Guangdong Qiao Xiang Jiangmen will be a special roast goose into a landmark food
Author Li Xiaochun Guo Jun
There are roast ducks in the north and roast goose in the south. In the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, when it comes to roasting geese, most people will think of the famous Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, originating from Shenjing Village, Changzhou Island, Huangpu District, Guangzhou. However, in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, the characteristic roast goose with red color and smooth skin and meat has developed into a landmark cuisine in wuyi area, and the economic value of the roast goose brand has a significant upward trend, such as Xinhui Gujing roast goose, Pengjiang Chaolian roast goose, Pengjiang Tangxia roast goose, Heshan Gulao Xijiang roast goose, Taishan Du Huo roast goose, etc. Have their own flavors, in addition to meeting the local market supply, they also attract many foreign diners to help and taste every day.
The rotary roast goose oven developed by Hengyixin has greatly improved the firing efficiency photo by Li Xiaochun
It is understood that roast goose is one of the traditional Cantonese-style roasted pork cooked food in Jiangmen and even Guangdong, and is called "roasted flavor" together with roast pork, char siu, roast pork ribs, roast chicken wings, etc. There are countless tea house restaurants in Jiangmen with roast goose as the signature dish, among which Xinhui Gujing Town, which was awarded the "Chinese Food Characteristic Town" in 2020, has a roast goose street in Tianchengwei, gathering a number of roast goose shops, of which "Hengyi roast goose" and "Pingxiang roast goose" are the most famous, "roast goose food" catering culture theme is prominent, every holiday attracts many tourists from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to punch cards, and roast goose street has thus become a net red spot.
The black-maned goose aged in 50 to 55 days makes the skin fragrant and smooth Jiangmen roast goose Photo by Li Xiaochun
Xinhui Gujing Town's characteristic roast goose street Photo by Li Xiaochun
"Legend has it that seven hundred years ago, the Southern Song Dynasty was forced by the Yuan army to retreat to the Xinhui Cliff Gate, and the Song and Yuan Cliff Sea Battle broke out. After the defeat, one of the court cooks took his daughter to xiandong village on the west bank of Xinhui Yinzhou Lake and ran a roast goose shop with the secret recipe of the court. Later, the imperial chef taught his daughter the secret method of roasting goose, and after the daughter married into the ancient well on the east bank of Yinzhou Lake, the secret cooking technique of roasting goose was passed on from generation to generation. Listening to the older generation, in the early part of the last century, there were many roasted wax stalls operating roasted geese in Gujing, and by the 1980s and 1990s, at least half of the roast goose stalls in Jiangmen were operated by Gujing people. Lu Rixin, director of Gujing Town Hengyi Food Co., Ltd., introduced that at present, the company has more than 10 processing plants, roasted wax shops, restaurants, farms, etc., and more than 20 franchise stores." In 2009, the production technique of "Gujing Roast Goose" was selected as the second batch of Jiangmen Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage Projects.
The weight of a roast goose example sign li Xiaochun photo
At present, the company has realized the assembly line production of meat goose hair removal treatment, the newly developed rotary roast goose stove, still using lychee wood as fuel, to achieve "traditional + modern" double combination, both environmentally friendly and efficient, a single furnace can burn up to 25, is 3 times the traditional furnace, the equipment and technology with semi-finished roast goose has been promoted to the national market. Lin Jialong, administrative and personnel manager of Hengyi Food Co., Ltd., revealed that at present, the company has achieved full coverage of breeding, slaughtering, processing, wholesale sales, firing, and catering, and franchise stores are all over Jiangmen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Zhuhai, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Haikou and other places.
During lunchtime, Hengyi Roast Wax Line attracted many customers to help Lin Li Xiaochun photographed
Every day, diners from Tiancheng Wei Roast Goose Street flock to the restaurant, and as the roast goose is baked one after another, the streets are overflowing with the unique aroma of roast goose. "The roast goose here is more famous, it happens that today I will play here in the new meeting, almost to dinner time, just come and taste it with friends." The wall paintings and decorations along the street have the food culture elements of roast goose, and when you look at it, they are all related themes to roast goose, which is quite good. There are a lot of restaurants that operate roast goose, and I have not yet decided which one to choose to taste, and I plan to take a walk around before deciding. On October 17, Ms. Wu, a Guangzhou diner who took photos and punched cards in Burn Goose Street, said.
Tourists go to Gujing Town to take photos and punch cards Li Xiaochun photographed
"Most of the guests who come here to eat come to burn geese, almost one roast goose or half a roast goose at each table, the restaurant must burn at least dozens of roasted geese on weekdays, and the number of roasted geese on holidays must at least double." Lv Chengyao, the person in charge of Hengyi Royal Building, introduced that the whole goose feast dishes such as wood-fired roasted foie gras, white cut goose paw wings, white cut goose offal, brine goose paw wing, white cut goose powder intestine, pickled pepper goose kidney belt, goose juice fishing noodles, leek boiled goose red, ruby steamed goose egg, ginger onion fried goose heart, fried spicy fried goose kidney flower, pretzel goose urn, abalone sauce buckle goose paw, salt baked goose paw wing and other whole goose feast dishes are also popular.
Freshly baked goose in the ancient well Li Xiaochun photo
Jiangmen Wuyi area roast goose cuisine, led to the upstream and downstream of the industry to increase production and income, the local meat goose breeding industry through the "company + base + farmers" and other ways to gradually develop to scale, standardization, industrialization, of which Kaiping "Magang meat goose" was awarded the national geographical indication agricultural products, the national famous special new agricultural products. Nowadays, not only can you go to jiangmen offline physical stores to taste the special roast goose, but also through the online sales platform to buy, roast goose products will use vacuum packaging, ice pack preservation, foam box insulation and other measures cold chain express delivery to reach the hands of customers, which means that Jiangmen roast goose officially stepped out of Wuyi, out of Guangdong, so that more diners outside Jiangmen can appreciate the different taste of overseas Chinese geese on the tip of the tongue. (End)
Source: China News Network