Kaifeng, the Northern Song Dynasty's Bieliang, is the soul of this ancient city.
"Lift up like a lantern, put down like a chrysanthemum", this is the most elegant praise for people's soup dumplings.
Walking into a bun shop, as soon as I sat down, two steaming soup buns were on the table. Lift the lid and the scent of fresh fragrance will come to your face.
One by one, the soup buns were arranged neatly, and the snow white was crystal clear, like a jade rabbit lying in a cage.
The white and tender bun skin vaguely reveals the pink and tender meat filling with juice.
Clamping up without breaking the skin, turning over without leaking the bottom, and sucking on a mouthful of juice are the biggest features of the soup bun.
A strand of thread, a futon, a skin like a chrysanthemum heart, stuffing like a rose petal.
Kaifeng's soup bun is not only beautiful in form, but also unique in its interior.
Meat stuffing and fresh soup live in the same room, and when you bite down, you will integrate the northern country to eat noodles, eat meat, and drink soup, which is the unique integration charm of northern wisdom.
If you take poetry as a metaphor for soup buns, then fresh soup is poetry, meat filling is prose, and dough is fiction.
Because fiction is inclusive, prose is purer, and poetry is the essence.
Northerners have always paid attention to eating, but in front of the soup buns, they have to leave more time for the delicacies.
Mr. Liang Shiqiu once told such an interesting story:
Two diners who did not know each other ate soup buns at the same table, and one of them took a bite of the soup bun, and the soup spilled on the face of the opposite guest.
But the man did not notice, and still quietly bowed his head and ate violently.
The restaurant's hall clerk quickly twisted a hot towel and handed it over, only to see the guest say without hesitation: "Not busy, he still has two soup buns to eat." ”
The soup bun is quite exquisite in the way of eating.
As the saying goes, "open the window first, then drink soup, a mouthful, full of incense."
The soup that had just been served was bubbling, and I picked one up and slowly moved it into the dishes, and gently blew a few breaths.
You can then bite a small bite along the edge of the bun and slowly suck it with your lips together.
The soup gushed into the mouth, flowed into the stomach, and suddenly the mouth was full of fresh fragrance, and it seemed that there was a heating through the five senses, passing through the six intestines, and flowing around.
Then the fluffy dough and tender meat filling are sent to the mouth, the taste is wonderful, and the tip of the tongue is slowly moistened by a delicate and mellow taste.
Kaifeng's soup buns are small and exquisite, but they are a complicated and ingenious process.
Choose three fat and seven lean pork, grind into meat filling, add ginger, salt, sugar, sesame oil and other spices and stir to taste evenly.
Unlike other buns, the soup in the Kaifeng soup bun is produced by drawing water in the filling, and the soup is more delicious and mellow to eat.
The soup bun is the most test of the master's skill.
Using the method of filling the soup buns, the dough skin is lifted into the shape of a bun, and after filling, the mouth of the bun is kneaded tightly, and the chrysanthemum-shaped folds are pinched one by one.
A soup bag takes eighteen folds, less unsightly, more redundant.
There is not only a single flavor in the small soup bag, it has a variety of flavors and varieties.
In addition to the common fresh meat soup buns, jade buns, shrimp buns, and three fresh buns are also favored by people with their soup flow oil and fresh and mellow taste.
If different flavors of soup buns are tasted in turn, the texture is clearly layered and gradually enters a better state, which can be described as intriguing in the transformation, and the magic is in it.
Originating from the Northern Song Dynasty, the soup buns still conquer people's taste buds today, thousands of years later.
The soup bun has the thickness of history, more cultural hope, is the joy of the world, and is also the real sense of the world.
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