"The hometown of Guangdong music" - Shawan Ancient Town, Panyu District, yu was born in Si, grew up in Si. When Yu San's aunt was in the Republic of China, she married a famous squire in Shawan North Village, and the former government site of Shawan Commune was her old private house; the third aunt had the "unique job" of cooking the private dishes of the squires' houses, and Yu had heard about it since childhood.
According to historical records, in the Qing Dynasty, the gentry of Shawan Ancient Town had created a jade food feast comparable to that of the court. At that time, the Shawan He clan on the rich side, in order to prevent their descendants from indulging in opium and gambling, succeeded or failed, and consciously cultivated their descendants to like the literary and elegant things of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and Confucius's "food is not tired of fine, not tired of fine" food.
Therefore, it has become the "Zhong Ming Ding Food Home" that the locals talk about, and has also given birth to the famous composers of Cantonese music, He Liutang, He He Nian and He Shaoxia, known as the "Three Masters of He Family". He Liutang has a hand in cooking "unique skills": He Liutang fried straight shrimp, He Liutang fried beef, He Younian invented the famous watermelon cake and chrysanthemum cake.
The squire of Ho pursues the ultimate in cuisine: chicken shredded silver sprouts - sprouts with a diameter of about 3 mm are thin enough, cut open the sprouts with special silver skewers, and then put in the chicken shreds, shrimp slip mouth. Unfortunately, at present, this kind of gentry's private dishes are difficult to find.
Another Tuan Nian meal recipe, "Five Generations Together", uses quail, white pigeon, black chicken, pork belly, walking chicken, etc. layer by layer, wrapped up in a variety of precious medicinal materials, a total of five layers, meaning "five generations" (five bags); in each layer, different accessories are added, and finally concoct a precious dish that is not cold, hot, not dry. When eating, the main ingredients and auxiliary materials of different layers are cut open layer by layer and eaten by people of different ages.
Shawan Ancient Town, since ancient times is a rich water town, the He clan people have money and leisure, coupled with profound cultural heritage, ingenious thoughts, the squire who lives here, has created a jade food feast comparable to the court at home, and such an extreme family banquet, at that time, became a common practice, becoming the object of competition among the rich. (Photo: 100 flowers stuffed beans, mesh oil spring rolls, fish skin dumplings) 2021/8/22
