Liang Shiqiu talked about a dish in "Yashe Talks About Eating", called Burst Double Crisp. The so-called double crisp refers to the chicken gizzard and lamb tripe, two things are hot and fried, fried out of the red and white. It is ligamentous and crispy to eat, and it is particularly chewy.
This led to Beiping's explosive belly. Mr. Liang said that the belly is a lamb's belly, and the lamb's stomach has several parts: Sandan, gourd, belly plate, belly collar, hundred leaves, ten letters, with the belly collar as the thickest. The popcorn is limited to the belly collar, and it is peeled, so it is called the belly kernel. There are three ways to fry belly kernels: salt bursting, oil bursting, and soup popping. Each of the three ways to eat has its own advantages. "Bursting" means that the water into the pot is a little shorter than the time of the pot, and the cool air in the stomach is exhausted, and the stomach has just warmed up. A Qing Dynasty poem "Dumen Bamboo Branch Words" wrote: "Bursting belly oil liver fragrant enema, wood tree yellow cabbage slice soup." The hen house is smoked and drunk, and tomorrow we will meet the big wine tank. "It can be seen that old Beijing has loved to eat popcorns for a long time.
Chen Hongnian's "Beiping Wind Objects" also made memories of the popcorn, he said, Beiping people are more hungry, which meal, the dish does not have a little meat, eat without strength, feel light soup and water, not fragrant. At this time, in the evening breeze to send cool, go outside the door, find a popping belly stall, come to the two bursting belly, drink wine, eat two tahini baked cakes is really good! Almost all the people who sell popcorns are small stalls. A small white bronze sign was poked in the face, which read "Halal Return". The small bowls containing the condiments are all roasted blue or red flowers, and the seasonings are added, plus a bunch of coriander, which is full of color and flavor.
The stomach, all placed on a piece of snow-white ice, designated which piece to eat, the treasurer cut it, "snapped" a few knives, put it on the colander of the big eye, dipped in the tumbling boiling water, one fishing, two fishing, even three fishing, this bowl of popcorn is cooked. Eat it in your mouth with the seasoning, it crunchy, crisp and fresh!
"Burst belly" eating method is exquisite, at that time Beiping was very popular, the famous "burst belly full", "burst belly king", "burst belly horse" and "burst belly Zhang", when they became famous all with lamb tripe.
Old Beijing recalled that when they ate "bursting belly", they were served in bowls on the plate, each bowl was a portion, and it was served in the side dishes room, and one plate was placed on one table. Don't cut too much into the belly of the "popping belly", use a hedge to pour a bowl of belly kernels into the soup, and then quickly fish it out with a fence, put it in a bowl, and rush to take the other bowl with one hand. Hurry up and boil the second bowl, so ten bowls, I'm afraid it's only five minutes.
The teacher passed on the "pop belly" while giving the coriander that had been put into the bowl, etc., and then the waiter took it away, along with the spice plates such as sesame sauce, leek flowers, chili oil, and some sesame oil, shrimp paste, etc. The form is like eating hot pot, but it is simpler. After eating the soup, you can also ask the guy to add the soup again, without restriction.
Mr. Zhou Shaoliang once wrote in the article "Bursting Belly": "Beijing people are accustomed to eating a food, it is like a snack food, you can go to a roadside restaurant to eat a bowl of relief, you can also add two burnt cakes to it as a lunch or dinner, there are also people call two bowls on it to drink and chat, spend half the day." ”