It's another good time of year when the spring breeze is swaying and the peach willows are green.
If you want to find a place where there are relatively not so many people to fly, then Aqiu Amway you Ningbo Cixi.
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Say it's well-known? But almost no one around Ah Qiu will take the initiative to mention it, and even the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai destination raiders rarely take it to play.
Say it's not well known? The previous year's Yangmei Festival even invited Jay Chou (it is said that Zhou Dong ate 20 bayberry as soon as he arrived at the hotel), and CCTV came one after another, from food to beautiful scenery to amway to all of China.
The figure is from @BIU BIU
There is no high-speed rail yet, making this small city seem less convenient to reach, but it is not far away.
The whole journey in Hangzhou takes about 2 hours by car, or you can take the high-speed train to Yuyao North Railway Station and then take a taxi to Cixi for about half an hour.
Picture from @Figureworm Creative
Pictured from @NANA sauce
It also benefits from the relative inconvenience of transportation, so that the city retains a charming, "old" atmosphere of the city.
Listed as "China's Happiest City (County-level)" many times, walking into the ancient street is easy to remind people of their childhood hometown, black tile gray walls, green vines and flowing water in the ancient village and ancient town, the indigenous people still work at sunrise and sunset.
Picture from @ Cultural Tourism Cixi
However, the main reason why Ah Qiu has not been bored for several years is still a lot of food.
The old shops on the old street unload their wooden doors, and the steam rises to welcome the beginning of the day. In the morning, the rice fritters are served with lamb and soy milk, and the oil cakes made in the afternoon are sandwiched with mochi, and a mouthful of oil is fragrant with rice, crisp and sticky.
Prepare another stomach to stuff various snacks,
Rice cake dumplings, brown sugar caramel cakes, rotten chicken, mouse sugar balls, Laijin tuan, Sanbei bean crisp candy, pine blossom dumplings, frozen pu, Cao Xiang dried... See what to eat and what to eat.
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Picture from @Sydney sauce, NANA sauce
Nestled by the mountains and the sea, Cixi is surprising all year round.
It is located on the coast of the East China Sea and on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay. The 66-kilometer stretch of coastline makes crabs, gilt and yellow croakers nostalgic.
Pictured from @Wei Weishan
More than 100,000 acres of sea paint allow the fishing ban period to be placed on a full table, the method is also innovative, and the rare eggplant roasted mud snail super rice.
Fishermen net a pocket of small trash fish, simple boiled or braised on the table, all small, but so tender that even bones can be chewed.
Picture from @"Chinese Image Fangzhi"
The wild vegetables in the mountain village are listed one after another, which is not surprising in appearance but a mouthful.
Cixi people especially love bamboo shoots, from winter shoots to spring shoots, wool shoots, wild mountain shoots, horizontal bamboo shoots, etc., stew a pot of old duck pot, make a piece of woolly bamboo shoots fish and roast meat, different delicious blends, a bite is beautiful.
All in all, Cixi is a treasure land, and Ah Qiu strongly recommends you to go once
Cixi people have eaten solidly since the morning
Foraging activities continue late into the night and remain non-stop
/Rice fritters with salty pulp/
Cixi people eat solid breakfast, which can be called a carbon water demon.
The popular rice fritters are served with a bowl of salted soy milk and don't go hungry until noon.
Some people also like to use freshly baked baked bread rolls to fry fritters, and the aroma of rich noodles, fire and oil is spread between chewing.
The Terminator is a big cake wrapped rice frieze,
The thin and crispy plum vegetable cake is spread with a layer of sticky rice, sprinkled with squeezed vegetables to add flavor, and then wrapped in a fritter, and if you have a big appetite, you can order tenderloin, poached eggs, sausages... The stout one held it in his hand for a while and didn't know how to put his mouth down.
The picture is from dianping user @ every day is sweet
Picture from @ CCTV "Taste"
But what amazes Ah Qiu the most is lamb and soy milk, and some shops can even ask if the meat should be fat or thin
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Put lamb pieces, shallots, soy sauce, pepper, etc. at the bottom of the bowl, and then rinse it with piping hot soy milk to stimulate the aroma of the lamb.
Thick as custard, let it drink it first while drinking the part of the bowl that has not yet solidified, and then pick up the spoon to solve the rest, the taste is silky, and a fine touch may be able to taste the aroma of meat.
Recommended rice syrup:
Changhe Old Street Dim Sum Shop: No. 5 Middle Street, Changhe
Minghechang rice soybean milk shop: Minghe Farmers Market South
Flatbread Wrapped Rice Recommended:
Afu Pie: No. 821 Zhangxin South Road, Xiaolin Town
Meimei dim sum shop: Longshan Town paradigm Guantang Street
Lamb soy milk recommended:
Majia Road soybean milk: Zonghan Street Zonghan East Road
Three-way sheep bone porridge
Picture from @ China Ningbo Net
Speaking of lamb soy milk, I brought a mouthful of lamb bone porridge. Cixi people like to use it as a supper.
This family in Kandun has been on CCTV and has been very popular.
Chop the lamb bones, soak them for 4 hours and then simmer them in a specially customized pot for 4 and a half hours, let the umami taste completely melt into the soup, and then add the early rice to continue simmering for an hour.
After the rice is cooked, it can not be separated from people, every 3-5 minutes to stir once, to prevent the bottom of the paste, one after another to watch the porridge become more and more thick, the aroma is more and more intense.
The long boiling makes the rice lose its granularity, almost melting in the mouth, and the aroma of rice and sheep fat fills the mouth. You can use the original flavor or add your own shallots, salt, and chili peppers. It's even more fun to talk about bones.
Address: Kandun Street Three Four Stove Village Kansheng Road 392-394
/Small cage, raw frying/
@Figureworm Creative
Speaking of breakfast, small dumplings and raw frying naturally can not be less.
Cixi Xiaolong's representative of the old Chen Ji (Chen Ji Xiaolong), the classic meat xiaolong is steamed every day, the old noodles are soft but chewy, the meat filling is delicious, dipped in vinegar or secret spicy sauce.
Raw frying must mention the famous Jinshan raw frying, which is also freshly wrapped every day, fried at the bottom is crispy, and you can get a mouth full of gravy when you bite it. It was really nice.
Old Chen Ji: No. 211-213, Tianjiu Street, Gutang Street
Jinshan raw frying: No. 164, Lou 2nd Road, Jinshan Xincun, Hushan Street
/White Sand Meatloaf Noodles/
Want to eat Cixi specialty noodles? That (green vegetable) meatloaf noodles must be tasted.
Traditionally, noodles are full of vigor and attract many people to buy alkali water tide noodles, and the soup base must be added with lard.
Although it is said to be a meat cake, the master will crush it with a spoon before serving, so after serving, you can only see a small piece of pork foam, and the fat and lean ratio is well controlled, so that it is fragrant but not greasy.
White Sand Road
A variety of snacks make people feel a stomach
Time permitting, it is recommended to go to Minghe for a walk
/Rice Cake/
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Ningbo's rice cakes can be said to be famous. Cixi people also often deal with rice cakes on a daily basis.
Steaming fried fried bubbles... A variety of practices can be found.
Stir-fried rice cake with cabbage and stir-fried rice cake with pickled bamboo shoots need not be mentioned, and Ah Qiu's love also has these two kinds:
Old lady sauce rice cake
Picture from Weibo user @Vivian A1
The secret sweet sauce has given this little shop countless loyal fans.
Now fried out of the pan, it is still steaming in the hand, and the sweet aroma of the sauce is channeled into the nose with the heat. Take a bite of the crispy outside and sticky inside, and the loved one will want to come to the plate every few days.
Picture from Dianping user @ Hashimoto Coriander
In addition to rice cakes, chicken bones and stinky tofu are also popular.
To mention the poached eggs in particular, the pan is hot and fried, the outer layer has been scorched and crispy, the inner yolk is still wet, and the aroma of brushing the sauce is really unforgettable.
Address: Kandun Street Sun Fang Village Xingzhen Street No. 1016
Rice cake dumplings in the ancient town of Minghe
Chubby rice cake dumplings, except for too much to manage full has no disadvantages. Ah Qiu is experienced every time in the ancient town of Minghe.
Take a piece of rice cake and press it into the shape of a cake with the palm of your hand, then scoop your favorite filling into a large dumpling and finish.
The fillings include dried bamboo shoots, minced squeezed vegetables, minced pickles, dried plum vegetables, and minced caper meat, etc., which can be mixed as you like.
A bite of the rice cake soft glutinous Q bullet non-stick teeth, the filling is rich, with chewing flashes of dried bamboo shoots, pickles, capers crisp to make the taste richer.
There are also sweet white sugar sesame seeds.
Address: Minghe Ancient Town
/Oil cake wrapped mochi/
In Cixi, some restaurants that sell rice balls in the morning will make mochi with the remaining rice in the afternoon and add sugar to make it sweet.
Now fried oil cake wrapped in a piece of mochi, folded up to take a bite, the outer layer of oil is crispy, and the inside is very soft and sticky, I always want to buy one to relieve hunger.
/Laijin Group/
Soon the Qingming Festival, a series of dishes made with wormwood will come out again.
Cixi people love to make Ai Qing dumplings, ai Qing and japonica rice flour to make the outer skin, wrapped in sweet and salty filling.
What is more special is that before steaming, a layer of raw glutinous rice is wrapped around the gnocchi to make this small dumpling more chewy.
/Leopard-print dumplings/
Leopard-print dumplings are actually bamboo shoot shell dumplings. The sun-dried shoot shell spots look like leopard print.
Cixi people generally eat sweet, glutinous rice wrapped in dates, cowpeas... When you eat it, you will also dip it in sugar to make it sweet all day long.
/Sanbei bean crisp candy/
One of the representative tea foods of Ningbo, the main raw materials are sugar and soybean flour, wrapped in white oil paper to show its old-fashioned.
The entrance is sweet and crunchy, but hold your breath when opening the bag, because the powder that falls out is easy to paste the face
The snack street in the ancient town of Minghe
Pictured from @Sydney Sauce
Tu convenient and convenient can go to minghe's snack street like Ah Qiu, although it is a little commercial, you can still find many traditional snacks.
For example, the mouse sugar ball, the maltose wrapped around the pillar, repeatedly pulled, until the yellow maltose becomes milky white, take it off and put it on the board sprinkled with pine pollen in advance, wrap it in bean paste and rub it into a long strip, rub it to a certain size and then tear it off.
When it is torn off, the maltose drawing gives it a small tail, hence the name mouse sugar ball.
The sweetness of maltose + the sweetness of bean paste, the addition of pine pollen makes it not greasy, with a faint aftertaste.
The practice is referenced from Cixi Daily
The streets are lined with snacks, which can be tasted by eye.
When the weather gets hotter, there's also a frozen puddle (wood lotus tofu) with a light mint flavor that's super cool.
Authentic Cixi cuisine is a fresh word
The delicacies of the mountains and the sea are presented on one table
Because Ah Qiu is going to play every time, many of the recommended shops are in the scenic area or closer to the scenic spot, and there are private shops that trouble everyone to comment on and add it
Orchid Island Farm
Relatively close to Fangjia Hetou Village
A picture with a picture of the riverhead village below the picture from @swenty
Lanyu Farm is a well-known farmhouse homestay in Longshan Town.
Here you can enjoy a delicious small seafood, yellow mud snails, sea cucumber seeds... Everything. CCTV's "Taste" column group visited Cixi and also filmed here.
Pictured from @swenty
CCTV with the same jumping fish steamed eggs, egg liquid into the baby fish steamed, smooth and tender in some more umami. Jumping fish do not need to spit out thorns, and can be swallowed whole by chewing.
Address: No. 53, Fangyang Community, Longshan Town, Cixi City
Silver Inn
Restaurant in minghe ancient town
A picture with the minghe ancient town picture from the @NANA sauce
If you want to find a place to solve lunch/dinner in Minghe Ancient Town, silver number inn is very suitable.
Rebuilt from Shen's big house, it is a typical Qing Dynasty double-storey courtyard, and the arrogance of large households is in every corner.
Local friends said that the stinky tofu here is the best made in town, the smell is not heavy, and it can chew out the aroma of soy products without dipping sauce into the mouth.
Address: Guanhaiwei Town Minghe Ancient Town Silver Lane No. 1
Beachfront hotel
Places where locals invite guests to eat
Picture from @ Shen Xiaoxian
Cixi locals are also quite recognized by the seafood restaurant, farmhouse style, so the environment can not be too particular.
But the freshness of the seafood is widely certified, and even the greens are as sweet as if they had just been plucked from the ground.
The disadvantage is that it is mainly a private room, which is suitable for more people to eat together.
Address: Longshan Town Taiping Gate Village Division Three Road No. 10
Changhe Zhang's duck stew
Fresh beyond seafood
The picture is from the public review user @ Lost King
The location is very remote, the environment is also exquisite, but it is a farmhouse duck pot shop that attracts many people to drive to eat.
There is no menu, the default is a large pot of duck pot per table, and then the aunt comes up with a variety of dishes to ask which one is favorite, and directly leaves it to eat. There are some magical ways to order food.
The picture is from the public review user @ Xiao Cai
The classic dried duck meat shoot pot has paid time and energy to make the duck meat "rotten" in one clip, and the bamboo shoots also have a meat flavor.
Seeing that the food is almost over, the shop will come to ask if you want to add rice cakes or noodles, and then take the pot away and cook the staple food with the remaining soup.
So don't be too greedy at first, the noodles and rice cakes cooked in broth are delicious and tight
Address: No. 1618 Changxing Road
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