Every city has its own flavor, a flavor that is fermented by time, land and humanities. The easiest to identify of these tastes is the local cuisine. Anqing, located on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, here famous flavor snacks include Jiangmao dumplings, Yingjiang Temple vegetarian pot stickers, Dananmen beef buns... Let's take a look.~
1 Yingjiang Temple vegetarian pot sticker
Anqing Yingjiang Temple vegetarian food has been very famous as early as the Guangxu period, and it is said that it is also one of the origins of Huibang vegetarian cuisine. There are about 400 varieties of vegetarian food in Yingjiang Temple Tea House, which are appreciated by tourists by replacing meat with vegetarian food, with fake and real, beautiful shape and delicious taste. It has been included in the "Famous Restaurants in China" published by China Tourism Publishing House. Yingjiang Temple's most famous vegetarian pot stickers, filling with mushrooms, magnolia slices, dried tea as the main raw materials, side dishes are divided by seasons, autumn and winter with cabbage, spring with local vegetables, summer with artemisia vegetables. Let you in different seasons, you can taste the different seasons of the special pot stickers.
2 river (gan) stuffed dumplings
Anqing city famous flavor snacks, is now listed by the Anhui Provincial Tourism Bureau as "local flavor snacks". Dumplings are the Anqing dialect and are actually wontons rather than dumplings. It began in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and was named because the founder Jiang Qingfu had white hair on his neck. Later generations summarized the characteristics as 16 words: "The skin is like tissue paper, the filling is like pearls, the shape is like a cat's ear, and the meat is tender and fresh." "In the early years, the ingredients were harsh, and the filling was made of black pork hind leg meat from the mountains, accompanied by shrimp and squeezed vegetables, and cooked dumplings with pure chicken juice or bone broth, which was deeply loved by people and was born of word of mouth. There are many people who eat, and in addition to eating dumplings, the general people will also call a cage of soup buns, which is very refreshing.
3 big South Gate beef buns
Great South Gate Beef Bun Shop, near the Mosque in the Great South Gate Section. The bun filling is mainly tofu. Grind the beef into minced pieces and add the ingredients. The skin is thin and the filling is large, and the soup is rich. The beef buns out of the pot are fried on both sides until golden brown, steaming, and when you bite down, the noodles are elastic, the soup is thick but not greasy, and the filling is full of meat. Take a bite, it is also spicy and fresh, but also fragrant and hot, typical of the "Great South Gate" flavor. As a local famous spot, in the heart of the wanderer, the Great South Gate beef bun represents more of a lingering strong nostalgia.
4 chicken soup soaked in fried rice
Anqing traditional New Year food. Choose free-range native chickens, Chinese New Year's Eve simmer them in sand hanging jars for a night. Early in the morning of the first year, the whole family has a bowl for each person. The production of fried rice is also very exquisite: soak the glutinous rice in boiling water overnight, expand and drain thoroughly, use an iron pot to burn firewood, and stir-fry one by one with a broom made of thin bamboo. Serve in soup before serving, followed by sautéed rice. Chicken broth is clear and oily, and the aroma is fragrant.
5 Anqing stewed eggs
Most of Anqing snacks are started by small traders and vendors who pick shoulders, peddle and set up stalls, forming their own business characteristics and flavors. The spiced tea eggs on the morning stalls in the streets and alleys are very local and are the favorite breakfast of many people. Anqing people call the five-spice tea egg "stewed egg", which shows that the Anqing people have a deep food culture. In the Song Dynasty compilation of the "Collection rhymes", "炆, 煴也." "Refers to the cooking method of simmering tough food or boiling vegetables over a low flameless flame, using a low flame to cook soft and cook. Anqing stewed eggs and foreign spiced tea eggs seem to be similar in practice, but in fact, the taste is very different. Anqing roasted eggs are better, the reason may be because Anqing is rich in famous tea, the tea leaves have a sweet aftertaste, the dry lotus puff is fragrant and elegant, adding high-quality tea leaves and dried lotus puffs, the tea eggs naturally have a strong aromatic taste.
6 Weijia Lane soup dumplings
Soup is specialty. Gently bite through the skin of glutinous rice, the brine soup is full of mouth, thick, thick, sticky. The soup is made of clean skin and bone, boiled over high heat, simmered for three hours, bone-crushed skin, add ginger and shallots, etc., and then rushed for half an hour, cooled and chopped into a minced shape, mixed with the meat filling, to make such a "soup" taste. Recommended meat dumplings, sesame lantern, located at No. 46 Shuangjing Street, business hours are 7:00-18:00, by 9, 15, 8 bus.
7 steamed anchovies
Anchovies are one of the three fresh fish in the Yangtze River, and the other two are knife fish and pufferfish. Anchovies and Anqing are related, every spring, from the East China Sea in groups to the west of the river, to Anqing Susong County's small isolated mountain, there is a folk proverb said: "Anchovy is just a small isolated mountain." "The district of Anqing and the counties of Zongyang, Huaining, Wangjiang and Susong along the river under its jurisdiction were once anchovy producing areas. Anqing's traditional famous dish "steamed anchovy" follows the practice in ancient books, with ham, bamboo shoot meat, shiitake mushrooms and other steamed, steamed anchovies are white and dazzling, known as white fat jade scales.
8 tamales (fish zha meat)
Tamales have a long history in Anqing, and have been continuously carried forward, deriving series such as red yeast tofu milk powder steamed meat, button vegetable powder steamed meat, lotus leaf powder steamed meat, etc., and have now become appetizing home cooking.
9 kua (kua) cake fritters
Cake fritters are a popular traditional breakfast food suitable for all ages in Anqing, and women and children like to eat. The outside of the cake is soft and salty and moderate, the fritters are golden and crispy and delicious, and the cake is wrapped in fritters, which has become a delicious breakfast that Anqing people love to eat.
10 tofu stewed with fish
Wang Ya, the Yangtze River freshwater basin of the product scaleless yellow jaw fish, Anqing commonly known as this fish as "Wang Ya". The meat is tender and delicious, Anqing dish "Wang Ya roasted tofu", that is, fresh and chaotic skin thin meat tender yellow jaw fish, now killed and cooked, do not fry in oil, take its original taste, and tender tofu with the same, two and one, fresh and fresh, complement each other, for people to eat.
11 Anqing ten dishes
Ten dishes, also called assorted dishes, are a local vegetarian dish in Anqing, especially in the New Year, every household must make it. Because the Spring Festival three days generally do not fry raw without moving the knife, so each family in the Chinese New Year's Eve day will be fried ten dishes, when eating on the decoration, because it is a vegetarian dish, eat as you take, can return to the pot, can also be eaten directly as a cold dish, no need to heat. Eating ten dishes in the year of big fish and big meat can make the nutrition more balanced. In addition to the deliciousness of the ten dishes, there is also the meaning of doing things perfectly in the coming year, and the ten dishes that love to eat in the New Year also have the meaning of Tujili.
11 mountain noodle dumplings roast meat
If you want to ask what is the most missed hometown dish of an anqing people in a foreign land, the answer is "mountain noodle dumpling roast meat". In the hearts of countless Anqing people, the roasted meat is no longer a simple hometown dish, but has risen to become a specific image of nostalgia. mountain