China's gastronomic culture has a long history, broad and profound, and there are many snacks everywhere, which benefits from the creativity of our people in the field of gastronomy. In the era of material scarcity, skilled craftsmen processed ordinary ingredients into delicious snacks, making our tables colorful.
There is a special food in Dongguo Town, Tengzhou, Shandong Province, called crispy vegetable ball soup, the balls are made of radish mung bean noodles, the crispy vegetables are cut into strips with potatoes wrapped in flour, fried in the oil pot, and eaten on the outside and tender inside, veritable crispy vegetables, balls and puff pastry can be eaten directly, but the locals prefer to make them into ball soup.
5 yuan a bowl with a pancake, only 6 yuan, you can eat very comfortable and very relieved. In this town there is a 40-year-old brand, the uncle sells crispy vegetable ball soup, has been sold for more than 40 years, the earliest 2 cents a bowl, now sold to 5 yuan a bowl, the price has increased dozens of times, but the taste has not changed.
This shop is unremarkable, passing by may not look at it more, but knowledgeable people will come to eat from afar, and his stove looks very simple, and the grease is speckled, but it does not affect the enthusiasm of the guests who come to dine. A large pot is filled with balls and puff pastry, and a wooden board is placed on top of the pot, on which are placed several pots of spices for the soup of crispy cabbage balls. One pot is chili, one pot is salty salt, and the other is material water, from the pot to fill the crispy vegetables and balls, pour these condiments, and then sprinkle with coriander, a bowl of crispy vegetable ball soup with good color and flavor is ready.
His family's craft of making vegetable balls is ancestral, although it is an ordinary and humble ingredient, but after careful preparation, it becomes a delicious delicacy. Here is rich in potatoes and mung beans to do balls to use mung beans to beat into a pulp, the reason why their mung bean balls are delicious, because the selection of materials is very exquisite, the processing process of the mung bean peel is removed, and then ground into a pulp, mixed with chopped radish, put in salt, five spice powder and other seasonings and then made into balls, the oil used for frying in the frying pan is also very fresh, the heat is just right, it is really crispy and tender. Whether it is balls or vegetables to eat into the mouth fragrant, the soup of the fourth aunt's family is not a broth, it is based on the origin of vegetables and balls to improve the taste, drink to the mouth salty and moderate, put a small amount of MSG is also very delicious.
This humble small shop is very famous in the local area, every morning at five or six o'clock to open, the store is crowded with people, 5 yuan a bowl of price, everyone can afford to spend, but don't look down on this humble snack, uncle has more than 8,000 yuan a day, although it is hard money, but also a lot of harvest.