When it comes to Yangzhou, the first thing that many people think of is the poem of Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty: Fireworks descend on Yangzhou in March, Yangzhou has a profound historical and cultural heritage, and has always been a scenic city with beautiful scenery, a cultural city where humanities gather, and a food capital on the tip of the tongue.
The taste of Yangzhou in the century-old brand, starting from a drawer of steaming Fuchun buns, is probably the best way to open.
Yangzhou in early winter, is refreshing and warm, in the night, I arrived at this long-awaited city, Yangzhou friends told me, come to Yangzhou, the first important thing is to take me to taste the buns of the Fuchun Hotel, at that time I had a question in my heart, Yangzhou as a food capital, special snacks should be very rich, why friends only recommended the buns here? Is the bun here different?
Walk into the Fuchun Hotel, be attracted by the busy atmosphere here, as a northerner, bun is one of the most common breakfasts, Fuchun bun as a business card of Yangzhou cuisine, began in 1885, after a long period of precipitation, is now a well-known brand.
Fuchun bun has a distinct local characteristics of Yangzhou, has become the pride of Yangzhou people, in the local, there is such a saying: to Yangzhou less than Fuchun, is equivalent to not coming to Yangzhou. It can be seen that both Yangzhou natives and foreign tourists like Fuchun buns.
Fuchun buns and the Qianlong Emperor also have a relationship, it is said that when the Qianlong Emperor went to Jiangnan, after tasting Fuchun buns in Yangzhou, he praised them one after another: Fuchun buns are worthy of the name. When you come to Yangzhou and taste The Fuchun Buns, remember to try the Three Ding Buns, which has won the National Golden Tripod Award and been rated as a "Chinese Famous Snack".
My trip to Yangzhou, is a food trip on the tip of the tongue, under the leadership of Yangzhou friends, specially came to the Fuchun Hotel located in Jiangdu District, here is one of the branches of Fuchun Buns, the owner is an authentic Yangzhou people, heard the Yangzhou culture, let him decide to carry forward the fuchun buns this old brand.
The neatly arranged Fuchun buns look very tempting, and the buns here range from 35 yuan a crab yellow bun to 3.5 yuan a vegetarian bun, which sells tens of thousands of pieces every day.
Each kind of bun is exquisite in its choice of ingredients, according to the different seasons, using different ingredients, but they are finely made, sweet and salty moderate, and the shape is beautiful, which is why Fuchun buns can go through more than a hundred years of time polishing, and it is still so popular.
The predecessor of Fuchun Hotel was actually a "flower bureau", which is what we call a flower garden, until the early years of the Republic of China, the Fuchun Flower Bureau was obtained by Zhou Gu, president of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce.
Zhou Gu was worried that his seventy-year-old father, Zhou Yingxiao, would go to the tea house to affect his reputation, so he listened to the suggestion of running his own tea house in his own flower bureau, which was exclusively for the old lady and friends to enjoy. Slowly the flower garden evolved into a tea house and then to today's Fuchun Hotel.
Fuchun Hotel set menu of 38 yuan
The dim sum varieties of Fuchun Hotel are actually particularly rich, including green vegetable buns, fresh meat buns, washed sand buns, dried vegetable buns, three ding buns, five buns, crab yellow buns, radish shredded buns, mille-feuille oil cakes, jade roasted for sale, glutinous rice buns, bamboo shoot steamed dumplings, etc. The feast snacks include double hemp shortbread, Xuanhua puff pastry, animal boat point, melon and fruit powder point, various cake dumplings and so on. In addition, there are crab yellow buns, wild duck vegetable buns, cabbage buns, cabbage buns, snow vegetable buns, winter melon roasted buns, etc. that are listed with the seasons, but the most famous is the bun here, the 38 yuan set here, I think it is still very affordable, two people can eat completely full.
Yangzhou has a deep historical and cultural heritage, one of the most prosperous cities in China's history, and is also the birthplace of Huaiyang cuisine, one of the four major cuisines in China, Fuchun Hotel in addition to the most famous buns, other Yangzhou cuisine is also very commendable.
At Fuchun Hotel, I also tasted the famous crab powder lion's head, which is also a traditional Yangzhou dish. This dish began in the Sui Dynasty. In that year, when the Sui Dynasty Emperor came to Yangzhou and inadvertently tasted the local cuisine, he specially named this dish crab powder lion head, for the delicious taste on the tip of the tongue, Chinese always have endless topics, the taste of the tongue winding, not only the satisfaction of the taste buds, but also the taste of everyone's memory, crab powder lion head, probably is the taste of many Yangzhou people when they were young.
Fuchun Hotel's boiled fish head, I personally also very much recommend, this dish is also a traditional Huaiyang famous dish, golden color, fish head meat fat and tender, flavorful and fragrant.
This time in the Fuchun Hotel, I specially tasted the most famous crab yellow bun in Yangzhou, a small crab yellow bun, but the production is very complicated, it takes thirty processes, a bite is full of umami, after sucking the soup, and then slowly taste the filling inside, it is really delicious in the world. After eating Tianjin's dog ignore, Kaifeng's soup buns, and then taste Yangzhou's Fuchun buns, it will still be praised, and the cuisine of different regions represents the delicacies and food culture of their respective cities, each with its own characteristics.
The five flavors make the taste of Chinese food ever-changing, and Yangzhou on the tip of the tongue starts with a steaming bun in the morning, which is the right way to open Yangzhou life.