Chengdu, for me, is a city of fascination.
My association with Chengdu began when I was a teenager reading Mr. Luo Niansheng's essay "Furong City", Mr. Luo's wonderful pen was full of flowers, and the Chengdu in his pen was like a literati, with endless gentleness and endless elegance...
At that time, I was in a small frontier town in the northeast, and I had a little fascination with Chengdu, which was far away from thousands of mountains and rivers.
Chengdu, floating light
The first time I went to Chengdu, because of a business trip, the company arranged for me to open up the southwest market, the first stop is Chongqing, the second stop is Chengdu.
When you get to Chengdu, it is indispensable.
Compared with the butter hot pot in Chongqing, the taste of Chengdu qingyou hot pot is more complex and changeable. If the Chongqing butter hot pot is the Shaolin Hercules King Kong palm, which is open and strong, and the power is fierce, then the Chengdu Qingyou hot pot is the Dali Six-Pulse Excalibur, which is dexterous and changeable, and the power is also extraordinary.
Chengdu hot pot
In my leisure time in Chengdu, going to the Wuhou Ancestral Hall to hang on to the ancients is something I must do.
I remember watching the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" when I was a child, Mr. Kong Ming's immortal death, I cried a lot, and my nose was bubbling. In junior high school, the Chinese textbook "Former Teacher's Table" can be memorized in an hour, and it has not been forgotten to this day.
Inside the Wuhou Ancestral Hall, Gu Bai Sensen, solemn and solemn, a winding red wall on both sides of the green bamboo swaying, red and green, winding paths, "the subject of the cloth, for cultivation in Nanyang, Gou full of life in the chaotic world, do not seek to hear about the princes..." Now the Taiping dynasty, the chaotic world has been peaceful, the princes have been annihilated, Mr. Ran's words are still in the ears.
Wuhou Ancestral Hall
Separated from the Wuhou Ancestral Hall by a wall, there are flowers and tourists weaving.
That day, in Jinli Ancient Street, it rained lightly, strolled into a tea house, quiet and elegant, asked for a pot of tea to sit by the window, through the lattice window, smoke and rain in the tourists with flower umbrellas, like an ancient painting to make people intoxicated.
Chengdu, drink tea!
Well, relax, this is Chengdu.
The tea house prepared a Sichuan opera change face at noon, and Mr. Lao She once talked about Sichuan opera in the essay "Lovely Chengdu", which could not help but make me have a curiosity to find out.
Sichuan drama changes face
I thought that if I looked closely, I could find the mystery, but unfortunately there was no trace of any trace, the changes in the face of the face were flowing, the Sichuan opera actors flashed and moved, and the skills were really good.
Skewers in a cold pan
Skewers of incense can be called hot pot in Chengdu, and the "cold pot skewers" derived from them are my dish.
Cold pot skewers, although it is cold, is actually hot. Choose a good skewer, after the store is boiled, put it in the red soup pot and bring it to the table, the red soup base, the waves are not alarming, the noodles are like a flat lake, but when you eat, you have to pay attention, be careful to burn your tongue!
And this is the "contrast charm" of the cold pot skewers!
Bowl chicken
And the bowl chicken, not only chicken, it is also a kind of skewer, and the cold pot skewer is very similar, I am always stupid and unclear.
A local friend in Chengdu told me a secret, he said that the bowl chicken will sprinkle you with a layer of white sesame seeds.
Spicy rabbit head is a feature of Chengdu cuisine, and Chengdu people aptly call it "nibbling rabbit brain shell".
To be honest, nibbling on the rabbit's head, I resisted. I am not used to eating foods that can be linked to this animal, especially various heads, such as chicken heads, duck heads, etc.
The first time I ate rabbit head, it was because my business partner took me, and it was difficult to be generous, but it could be said that I often walked in the rivers and lakes, and I had to get wet shoes sooner or later."
I took a bite out of my face, and I'll strangle it! Nice!
Rabbit head meat is not much, but the meat is very fragrant, into the taste of three points, especially rabbit brain, so delicate to say...
Before leaving, I also packed dozens of spicy rabbit heads, which was so relieving!
Brain flowers
When it comes to eating brains, the brain flowers are the "gourmet mountains" that I have not been able to conquer so far.
Brain flowers are probably the food that is farthest away from my heart. A friend in Chengdu told me that if you can eat all the bean flowers, you can eat the brain flowers.
But the brain flower does have a fishy smell, although there are spicy and fragrant condiments, but it is too spicy, drink a sip of ice water, the fishy smell of the brain flower is all hooked.
Impostor dish
When it comes to the word "risk", in my opinion, it should mean that it is hot.
A fake dish is a person's hot pot, and a hot pot is a group of people's fake dish. It can be seen that the fake dish is the most suitable for travelers like me to eat alone.
When I was in Chengdu, a person ran a business, and my stomach grunted, so I came to a dish sacrifice to the Five Visceral Temple. Don't care about the size of the storefront, a lot of people is a good place.
Is the dish the ancestor of the spicy hot in the northeast?
In my northeast view, this impostor should be the ancestor of the spicy and hot in the northeast, but we are used to a spoonful of sesame sauce, and eating the impostor is sprinkled with green onions, coriander and Sichuan tempeh, the taste is more intense, the spicy taste is complex and changeable, and eating a portion is a big sweat.
Bell dumplings
When it comes to eating spicy, Chengdu and even Sichuan are hot and spicy, and even a bowl of dumplings is full of red oil.
We northeasterners love to eat dumplings, and Chengdu's zhongshui dumplings have also captured my heart. Zhong dumplings, pay attention to thin skin, fine material, tender filling, fresh taste, pure meat filling, mixing red oil, sesame oil, red soy sauce, spicy in the sweet, sweet with fresh, rich garlic, is not a large amount, I can kill three parts by myself. [Treacherous laughter]
Three cannons
Of course, Chengdu cuisine is not only spicy, but also has a lot of sweetness, after all, sweet can relieve spicy!
In Chengdu, eating the "three cannons" is a fun and delicious thing. Light a portion of the three cannons, the master withdrew a lump of rice dumplings, divided into three parts, fell on the copper plate, crisp and loud three "bang bang bang" cannon sound, the rice sticks bounced on the slope like a ping-pong ball, automatically rolled on a layer of soybean noodles, drizzled with brown sugar, sprinkled with sesame seeds, is this sweet and sticky "three cannons".
Three cannons, fire cannons!
Of course, there are many wonderful sweet snacks in Chengdu, which are also very memorable to me.
Ice powder, a cool and sweet anti-spicy artifact, plus brown sugar, peanut crumbles, raisins, after eating hot pot to a bowl of ice powder, the most right way.
Ice powder
Lai Tangyuan, a century-old brand in Chengdu, Sichuan, now Lai Tangyuan has many flavors, the most classic is lard black sesame filling. Although the heat is bursting, it is very solid after eating.
Lai Tangyuan
Here, I want to focus on special cuisine,
Ye ErCang is a specialty food in Sichuan, and the first time I ate Ye Ercang was in Chengdu, at the home of a local friend.
Ye Erzhu
Friends said that eating leaf rice depends on the season, and it can only be eaten before and after the Qingming Festival. Ye Erzhu has meat filling and sweet filling, and I especially love sweet filling. The green leafy rice is dyed with wormwood juice, and its practice is quite similar to the "mugwort cake" of our Korean ethnic group.
The shape of Ye Ercang also makes me feel very kind, and it is quite similar to our Northeast Manchu snack "Suzi Ye Rao".
Su zi leaf rao, also known as Su rat, sticky rat
In my eyes, Chengdu people know how to eat and eat, and they are not on the spicy road to go all the way to the black.
The understanding of spicy and sweet is very good, and the snack that plays spicy and sweet is the famous snack in Chengdu:
Sweet water surface
The deliciousness of sweet water noodles lies in the fact that it only captures people's tastes.
The spicy nature of the sweet water comes from the red oil pepper, the rich spicy taste, accompanied by peppercorn powder, peanut crushing, more rich and charming. And the sweetness of the sweet water comes from the slightly sweet taste with sweet red soy sauce, which neutralizes the spicy taste and brings more changes in taste.
Eating sweet water, the first bite must bring you the tendons and teeth of the noodles, and the crunchy peanuts are naughtily bouncing between the teeth, followed by the sweet taste, which is sweet red soy sauce and saliva amylase at work, and then the spicy taste is again, and finally the rich sweetness brought by fine chewing...
I have been to Chengdu several times, but due to many matters, I have not had the opportunity to go to Du Fu Caotang Huaigu.
In 2016, I finally had some leisure time in Chengdu and came to Du Fu Caotang to see the former residence of Du Gongbu.
Statue of Du Fu
The statue of Mr. Du Fu in the grass hall is pitifully thin, and it is this poet who wrote a generous poem of "Ande Guangsha ten million rooms, sheltering the world from the cold and the happy faces, and the wind and rain do not move like mountains" when the thatched huts are broken by the autumn wind.
Mr. Du of the Tang Dynasty, when the hut was broken by the autumn wind, the whole family was drenched in rain, and when he was indignant, did he ever think of this land after a thousand years, full of flowers, merchants, and delicacies everywhere...
I think this is the thickness of the city of Chengdu, and it is also where the people of my generation love life and love the country.
Chengdu, a city that fascinates me!
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