If you talk about the famous food in Xi'an, Shaanxi, "gourd chicken" is the first, followed by "gourd head" ranked second, Mo MaDa.
[Hulutou] Hanyu Pinyin hu I.u tou
英语☞Pⅰta Bread Wⅰth gourd–shaped ChⅰtterⅠings（Hu1utou）
Japanese ☞
Korean/Korean ☞
If Shaanxi cuisine wants to go global, it should naturally have a "foreign name".
[Gourd head steamed bun] originated from the Northern Song Dynasty In Chang'an City under the imperial city roots of the city of the city of "fried white intestine" based on pig intestines and pork belly, a pot of stew, due to the illegal production, poor reputation.
Mr. Sun Simiao, the founder of the famous "medicine saint" and "diet therapy" in the Sheng Tang Dynasty, also liked that bite, and was also drunk and difficult to swallow...
One day in the Sheng Tang Dynasty, Lao Sun couldn't stand drinking "fried white intestines", and Lao Sun poured out ten "Chinese herbs" (spices) from the "medicine gourd" he carried with him, and put them into the soup in proportion and in layers.
For a time, from the imperial city root a hazi incense floated all over Chang'an City...
Since then, Chang'an City has operated the "Gourd Head Bubble Bun" restaurant, and in gratitude to Sun Simiao, "Gourd" has been used as a signboard, and "Gourd Head" has also been named and famous all over the world.
Spices of... Chinese herbal medicine (a perfect ingredient for Chinese cuisine)
The soup used in "Gourd Head" is boiled with pig bones + old hens, and the soup is the soul of Gourd Head.
The essence of "gourd head steamed bun"... Pig intestine, with the name of animal anatomy: rectum, large intestine head (juhua) inward 10 cm section, shaped like a gourd, and Sun Simiao drop medicine gourd coincides.
The signature dish names for "gourd head" are: double head, fine intestine, collectively known as ☞ gourd head also.
There are already too many introductions about the "gourd head bubble bun" drops, and I don't need to talk about it anymore...
Digression:
The breadth and profundity of "Shaanxi food culture" is only Shaanxi that combines food and culture, which highlights all aspects of Shaanxi as a cultural province.
Now, "Gourmet Big V" is all over the world, and it is rare to really know the ins and outs of "a dish". (The network platform makes too many two-and-a-half hangers, and the older generations eat chaff and throat vegetable drops) "overnight fame"... Transformed into the so-called "gourmet V".
I have been in contact with several so-called "food big V" to write food, play live broadcasts, send videos to eat drops of their own fat heads and big ears, earn money, eat round belly, fame is bigger than athlete's foot, in fact, (there are no drops of ink in the stomach), play to the end Of what cultural shit is not, can leave a bunch of chicken feathers are considered to be good to play, but also think that they are great... (A bit off-topic).
Book Reformation: Say "gourd head steamed bun"... ：
So, what is the connection between "Gourd Head" and [Imperial City Xuan Gourd Head Steamed Bun Restaurant]?
Today, xi'an, the ancient capital of the thirteen dynasties, operates a "gourd head steamed bun" drip restaurant, no less than 1,000 people, all over the streets and alleys.
Local traditional cuisine needs to be inherited and developed, there are traditional famous foods and "century-old shops" everywhere, some local famous foods can last forever, some "century-old shops" play dead, only a brand is left...
In Chang'an City, there are also a few "century-old shops" in "Gourd Head Bubble Buns", and only that brand remains...
There are a few grins left in the forehead, and there are only a few grins left.
The old Xi'an people know and can really do it: "Smell the incense and stop, know the smell and stop the car,"
How many more authentic "gourd heads" are there?
Why [Imperial City Xuan Hulutou Bubble Bun] can "play famous" in the Chang'an Weiqu area, play di household names, can attract all kinds of "food big V" scramble, every day high friends full of seats?
Because [Imperial City Xuan] is still adhering to the "ancient method of concoction" and "gourd head steamed bun" drops one of several old shops.
From the selection of raw materials, the selection of each ingredient drop, to the boiling of soup, cleaning, cooking of the large intestine, each procedure of "complexity without reduction" meticulous, expensive in the persistence...
[Huangcheng Xuan] The boss in the early stage of entrepreneurship, at any cost to buy a high price to buy "gourd head" production formula, only a little, in the industry has been rumored as a good story.
Now, the one who can really do this is selling "gourd head steamed buns"! (Including the so-called "century-old shops) are also in name only, that "golden signboard" can also be worth a few old money, but also fool the so-called "eaters" and food V (propaganda needs) ...
[Imperial City Xuan] drip halogen "pig hand" (only selected) pig front hoof, absolutely do not "frozen goods" and "imported goods" and pig hind hooves.
[Imperial City Xuan] Brine chicken, must be the use of small rooster.
"Gourd head steamed bun" drop essence... Pig intestines must use "domestic" cold fresh ingredients.
From a large intestine, a pig hand, a bone, a peppercorn "pound and pound" of the best of the best, tirelessly cooked carefully...
[Imperial City Xuan] is not fire, who is on fire?
That is to say: [Imperial City Xuan Hulutou Steamed Bun House] can open a counter at the "People's Congress" to entertain the delegates, which has explained everything!
Briefly.
The weather was cool on these two days, suitable for "gourd head".
Give Old Zhao a phone call:
"Want to smack the gourd head...
Old Zhao replied, "Come..."
Turn around and go straight to the "donkey shed" to pull out the "little donkey", this "donkey", when the "donkey shed" circles drips, more than when running on the road.
Take this opportunity to also pull this "donkey" out of the slip ...
Gossip less, from the northern suburbs straight to the south of the city Weiqu North Street [Imperial City Xuan].
[Imperial City Xuan] one of the signboards... Garlic seedlings fried sheep blood
[Imperial City Xuan Hulutou] "4S" mode operation room
[Imperial City Xuan] exquisite side dishes
[Imperial City Xuan] homemade free... pickle
[Imperial City Xuan] Boutique... Gourd head
This time, to grin a [Imperial City Xuan] drop signature dish "garlic seedling fried sheep blood", a signature "fine intestine" gourd head, because it is "riding a donkey to see the record book", although riding a drop is a donkey, but also to abide by the law, "riding a donkey does not drink, drinking wine does not ride a donkey" do not dare to drink, mainly to eat, you must order [Imperial City Xuan] drop fine products.
What is the relationship between "fried white intestines", Sun Simiao, "Gourd Head", and Imperial City Xuan?
This is a relationship between inheritance and development, but also a quality and pattern.