Yiwu, known as the International Small Commodity City, has thousands of years of cultural accumulation, making it form its own unique and full of charm food culture, especially for the inheritance of sweet and fragrant taste, becoming the city's gastronomic business card. Let's take a look at the hard-to-give up nostalgia in the streets and alleys of Yiwu.
Yiwu brown sugar
Yiwu brown sugar is the best of brown sugar, because it is made by traditional craftsmanship, it is not purified and well retains the nutrients in cane juice. Yiwu brown sugar, tender yellow and slightly cyan in color, soft texture, sweet and fresh, fragrant and delicious, with the effect of relieving muscles and activating blood, driving away cold and dehumidification, warming the stomach and strengthening the body.
Brown sugar twist
Yiwu brown sugar can process a lot of brown sugar series of delicacies, such as Yiwu hemp sugar, brown sugar twist, ginger sugar... One of the most popular among diners is brown sugar twist flower. The soft and sweet brown sugar juice wraps each twist evenly, the sweet taste slowly penetrates, layer by layer, bite down, the crisp twist flower has been crisp in the mouth, the sticky brown sugar is still broken, eat a mouthful of fragrance.
Brown sugar dumplings
There are many types of rice dumplings, among them, the very Yiwu characteristics of brown sugar Wangdao dumplings, deeply loved by the public, Wangdao dumplings are known for sticky but not rotten, fat but not greasy, tender meat flavor. One night in the spring of 1920, Chen Wangdao was intently translating the Communist Manifesto in a humble room, and his mother sent him rice dumplings and brown sugar, and the uneasy mother asked outside: "Is the brown sugar sweet enough?" The boy replied, "Sweet enough, sweet enough!" Who knows, when the mother came in to clean up the dishes, she found that Chen Wangdao's mouth was full of ink, but the brown sugar did not move at all. It turned out that Chen Wangdao actually ate the rice dumplings dipped in ink. This is: "The taste of truth is a little sweet." ”
Red yeast wine
The source of sweetness can be sugar or wine. Every child in Yiwu has memories of red yeast wine, and as they grow up, it is an indispensable taste when their mother cooks. Yiwu has been making red yeast for hundreds of years. In the memory of many people, the sweetness emitted by the fermentation of grain filled the entire childhood.
Smell the chicken
"Chicken to burn fragrant, all rely on the old wine ginger", red yeast wine color golden, moist like glue, the sweet aroma of wine and chicken tenderness fusion, the encounter of two ingredients, sublimated a unique taste, the achievement of fragrant chicken this Yiwu famous dish.
Yiwu Southern Jujube
The southern jujube that has evolved from thousands of hammers and hammers is black and shiny, and the pattern is fine. Sunlight and fire carry away moisture and lock in the sweet fragrance. The flesh of the fruit becomes firmer and fatter, the taste is luscious, and the teeth are sweet and sticky. "Chinese Famous Products" said, "Jiangnan jujube is a good product, is Zhejiang Yiwu Southern Jujube". Yiwu southern jujube color is black and shiny, unique shape, color, taste, rich in nutrition, is a good health nourishing food. In addition to producing southern dates, Yiwu also produces dates, also known as golden amber dates. Its shape is flat and round, the texture is like silk, the color is tender and yellow, and the food is soft and sweet, and it is known as "candied treasures".
Sugar
Sugar yan, also known as sugar lady, is a specialty food of Yiwu, made using traditional craftsmanship. The selection of materials is fine and the process is complicated. The taste is unique, soft and delicious, sweet but not greasy, unique flavor. According to the "Yiwu City Chronicle", in the seventh and half months of the lunar calendar, no fire is made to cook, and sugar is the main food, which has been spread in Yiwu for nearly a thousand years.
Choose tofu
Choosing tofu is a traditional dish made from a powder of wild fruits called Zezi (scientific name "Stone Oak"). Zizi tofu is a must-have summer product in Yiwu, when making it, take an appropriate amount of Xuezi powder and add water to stir into a paste, slowly down into boiling water, cook into a paste. Then put the cooked Zezi paste into a bowl, put it cold and soak it in cold boiling water, and it becomes Xuezi Tofu. When eating, take a piece and divide it into small pieces, add vinegar and a little brown sugar or white sugar in a bowl, sweet and delicious, and then drop a few drops of mint, which tastes cool and can cool down and prevent heat.