The history of 5,000 years, the great rivers and mountains of the land, and the industrious people who are brilliant in the land have brought different characteristics in food. To use a sentence to describe: "The motherland is so big, I want to go and see!" There are so many delicacies that I want to try them! ”
However, the cuisine conceived in the vast territory is not something that each of us can accept. There are thousands of personalities in people, and their preferences for food are also various. The food that many locals are proud of is not the case in the eyes of outsiders.
Taking the Jiangsu region as an example, Lao Yu summed up the four dishes that the locals liked. But these four dishes may have become "four strange dishes" in the eyes of outsiders, and they dare not swallow.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > the first way: bean dan. </h1>
In the city of Lianyungang in Jiangsu Province, there is a county town called Guanyun. When you think of this county town, it is natural to think of a famous dish called "Bean Dan" in the local area.
As for why it can become a famous dish, we can look at it like this:
1, what kind of a dish is bean dan.
The raw material for this dish is a bug called "Bean Dan", which is the larva of the bean moth. To be more precise, Doudan in Guanyun County is a 5-year-old larvae of the bean moth.
It looks a lot like the larvae of a baby silkworm, with a long cylindrical body, a tender green surface, and dense small particles.
Perhaps, just from the "bean" bug itself, this dish is enough to be very famous. It's like Shandong people like to eat silkworm pupae, bee pupae, know the monkey, is a truth.
2, the taste of this dish of bean dan.
After the bean paste is made into a dish, the taste can be said to be absolutely beautiful! Eating in the mouth, there is a bean flavor, the taste is delicate and tender, and the taste of fresh flavor is very strong.
It can be said that outsiders first saw Dou Dan and thought it was a bug, and did not dare to swallow. But once tasted, few people will refuse, and they are full of praise and are deeply fascinated by its taste.
3, the value of bean dan.
Nutritional value: Bean dan is not only delicious, but also has a very high nutritional value. It belongs to the high-protein, low-fat nutritious cuisine, super nutritious.
Economic value: Locals often compare doudan with Yangtze River knife fish, because in the season when doudan is first on the market, it can sell for thousands of yuan a catty, and the price is very expensive.
It's summer, and it's the growing season for bean dan. At this time, the bean dan is the cheapest time, if you are lucky enough to encounter it, you must taste it!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="99" > the second way: the spring tide. </h1>
If dou dan is still a dish that can be tasted, then "spring tide" is definitely a psychological obstacle that needs to be overcome. Don't just listen to the name, because the name of the dish "Spring Tide" is very poetic.
The ingredients for this dish are "maggots"! Despite being an artificially raised maggot, just listening to the name is enough to make people lose their appetite.
However, in Hai'an, Jiangsu Province, this dish is very famous. Locals fry maggots in a frying pan and season them with salt and pepper or other spices. Eating in the mouth not only has a crunchy taste, but also a fresh flavor.
Therefore, "spring tide" can be directly described as "fried maggots". However, the nice name puts a very gorgeous coat on this dish, making it more marketable and more appetizing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="100" > the third way: (feed it) soup</h1>
Soup is a delicacy in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and should be breakfast to be exact. It's just that this name is really a test of the old cultural skills, and I really don't know how to read it.
Later, after checking the information, I learned that this famous dish was called "Sha Tang", which was mainly derived from a small story in the Qianlong period. It is said that Qianlong passed through this place on his southern tour, once tasted this soup, felt that the taste was too good, and asked: "What is this soup?" And the person who sold the soup replied by the way: "The emperor is right, this is what soup." So, this "sha" has been passed down to this day.
It is based on the chicken broth stewed by the hen, and then adds cereal, pepper, mung beans and many other ingredients, so many that the naked eye can not see what ingredients are in it. The taste is also very unique, with fresh and spicy flavor as the main taste, and the taste under the fine taste is very layered and very rich.
Perhaps this soup was once just an unknown name, and there was no specific name. The person selling soup was asked by the emperor, and he blurted out his name in a hurry. Maybe there are too many ingredients in this soup, and it is difficult to distinguish what kind of soup it is, so it is directly called sha soup.
But either way, this soup does taste very good. Therefore, if we are lucky enough to go to Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, we must not "judge people by their appearance". Because this bowl of soup did not sell well, he lost an opportunity to taste the food.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="101" > the fourth way: chrysanthemum brain egg soup. </h1>
There is a soup in Nanjing called "Chrysanthemum Brain Egg Soup", which is perfect for summer eating. However, listening to the name first, I think it is very strange! Chrysanthemum brain? Is it Chrysanthemum's brain?
In fact, chrysanthemum brain is the name of a plant. It belongs to the Asteraceae family, and the chrysanthemum brain is just its name, which looks a lot like the leaves of celery. In the Jiangsu region, this plant called chrysanthemum brain is very common and is a common delicacy on the local table.
In fact, this can only be counted as "one monster", and as for the other monster, it must be said from the "egg".
We usually make egg flower soup, and most of them use eggs. The chrysanthemum brain egg soup is not an egg, but a duck egg. In addition to the nanjing people like to eat duck eggs, this has to be from the duck eggs themselves.
Duck eggs are cool, and chrysanthemum brains have the effect of cooling, clearing fire, heat protection and heat relief. Therefore, the combination of the two is not only nutritious, but also super defeated. Therefore, this soup is very popular with locals in the summer.
As for the fishy smell of duck eggs, the chrysanthemum brain can eliminate it again. Therefore, in our opinion, the way of eating is very "strange", and it is not strange in the eyes of the locals.
In fact, the reason why these dishes are "strange" is largely due to the differences in food culture in different regions. I don't reject this difference, and I also have an appreciative eye to accept these foods that seem more novel to me as a foreigner.
In addition to the four dishes listed above, in fact, there are many dishes in Jiangsu that are very "strange" in our eyes. For example, eight strands of fritters, ground vegetables, braised chicken butt, and so on.
It's just that these dishes are not very "strange" in the eyes of the old Yu, because these stir-fried dishes do not have very special geographical restrictions and can be eaten in other regions. Like braised chicken butt, I've eaten it many times. I wonder what everyone thinks?