Jinzhong, a prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province, is located in the central part of Shanxi Province, bordering taihang Mountain to the east, Fenhe River to the west, Taiyuan City to the north, Changzhi City and Linfen City to the south, Yangquan City to the northeast, and Lüliang City to the southwest. Jinzhong City administers 2 municipal districts, 8 counties, and 1 county-level city, with a total area of 16,391 square kilometers and a permanent population of 3,365,600 in 2017.
Jinzhong has formed a number of tourism boutiques in the province, such as the world cultural heritage Pingyao Ancient City and the Jinshang Folk Culture Tourism Zone; Jinzhong is one of the birthplaces of Jin culture, an important part of Chinese civilization, and the cradle of Jinshang culture. What are some of the unforgettable dishes here?
1. Pingyao beef
Pingyao beef, the traditional production process is unique, from raw cattle slaughter, raw meat cutting, pickling, pot cooking and other operating procedures and operating methods, to the use of salt, water and even processing of the season season, are very exquisite. The beef produced is ruddy in color, tender in meat, fat but not greasy, thin but not chai, mellow and delicious, rich in nutrition, and has the effect of supporting the stomach and strengthening the spleen.
2. Tai grain cake
Taigu cake is a traditional food in Shanxi Province, named after taigu county. Since the Qing Dynasty, Taigu cake has the characteristics of sweet but not greasy, crisp but not broken, delicious and fragrant, and is famous for its fragrant, crisp, cotton and soft, and enjoys the reputation of "the king of pastries". Taigu cake is a typical representative of "Jinshang food culture", and the famous singer Guo Lanying's crisp and melodious song "Pingyao Beef Taigu Cake..." has made the reputation of Taigu cake spread all over the world.
3. Close the bowl
Pingyao New Year or festival family must cook a unique flavor of meat food - "he bowl". The bowl is a clay bowl specially used to place meat, which is not glazed and slightly lighter than the general bowl. The pork belly, pork belly pieces in the pot boiled, fished out, noodle rice wine roasted, fished out, cut into different shapes of the pieces, each bowl of five two, such as bar roast meat, block shaped meat, hoof block shaped knife, according to the shape of the code in the bowl, add shallots, ginger slices, salt, fennel, pepper water, steamed in the basket, after the basket, you can eat. When eating, add the prepared soup, such as roasted meat, balls and clear soup. Large meat, hooves and soup.
4. Taitani smoked pigeon
Taigu smoked pigeon is a traditional local product of Taigu County, which has a history of nearly 100 years and was founded in the Qing Dynasty. In the old days, this famous property was mostly used by merchants to entertain domestic and foreign merchants. At that time, the smoked pigeons in the south gate of the West Street of Taigu City and the smoked pigeons in the "Sansheng Garden" outside the south gate of Taigu City were the most famous.
5. Horse head tea food
Mashou's tea and mooncakes are quite famous in Shouyang. Tea and mooncakes still adhere to the pure handmade, traditional process of manufacturing, these two foods in addition to the appearance and taste of similarities, the filling inside also shows a variety of characteristics. The skin of the tea is crisp and thin as a cicada wing, and the thickness of each layer is only 0.2 mm, while the whole skin is less than 5 mm thick. The skin of the mooncake is a whole piece, but the degree of crispness is no less than that of tea, which is crushed and melted when eaten.
6. "Deshengyuan" mind
"Mind" is a seasonal nourishing nutritious snack. Yuci's "mind" is the earliest, and it is said that it was made according to the recipe and process of "Eight Treasures Soup" by Mr. Fu Shan, a famous person in Shanxi in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Among them, Yamen Street "Desheng Garden" is the most famous, can be with Taiyuan Qing astragalus, yellow wine lees, simmered noodles, good ginger as the main body, pickled leeks as the guide, accompanied by "pin wheat" and "hat box" and other pasta, with soft, cotton, fragrant, sweet and hot characteristics, and no fishy taste, delicious food, good qi tone, vitality and stomach, nourishing fatigue and loss, is a good product for strengthening the body and prolonging life.
7. Combine the pot
The Lingshi dialect is called each pot. Similar to the sauce soup noodles but slightly thicker than the juice soup noodles, it is a simple and easy-to-eat popular food, especially in the previous difficult period, in order to save food, it has become one of the main foods in the daily life of farmers. The ingredients and methods of the pot are also relatively simple. Generally take their own convenient kinds of vegetables, such as cabbage, radish ramen melon, spinach, leeks, zucchini and other boiled pots, and then with some miscellaneous noodles (jade, sorghum, beans mixed with ground flour), rub people with a bed or use a clam bed to sip people in the pot, after cooking, add salt, vinegar, sesame oil, green onions, ginger, coriander and the like, even the soup with thick spoon can be eaten.
8. And rice
Hewa rice is a home-cooked meal with wide influence in the Lingshi area, and it is also one of the more distinctive flavor foods of Lingshi. Wagabi is divided into boiled and washi and flag flag and waka rice, but they are similar and the preparation method is basically the same. To boil a lump and rice, cornmeal is made into a small cake and eaten, then dipped in fried green onions and other spices. The flag flag and japanese rice are made of foreskin noodles (white bread sorghum noodles) or white noodles and miscellaneous noodles, made into noodles, "roundworms", "rubbing nails", boiled in them and mixed and eaten. Not only is the taste delicious, suitable for all ages, but also protein, vitamins and various signs required by the human body are higher than other foods, which is one of the best foods to enhance physical fitness, reduce diseases and improve health.
9. Bone tiredness
Bone tired is one of the most representative Spirit Stone flavor foods, soft and delicious, rich in nutrition, is widely praised as a delicious dish〃. On the sixth day of november in the 26th year of the Qing Dynasty, Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor traveled west to Xi'an Via Lingshi, and when they ate the bone tired and harmonious meals at the He Mansion of the Liangdu official eunuchs, their appetites were wide open and they were full of praise. Before leaving, he instructed Li Lianying to write down the materials and the whole production process and bring them back to the palace. According to legend, when Cixi returned to the capital, she often asked the chef to cook her lingshi bone tired and hewa rice. Since then, Cixi's anecdotes of liking to eat Spirit Stone bone tiredness and japanese rice have been widely circulated in the folk.
10. Yuci oil cake
Oil cake is a food made by frying yellow rice (i.e. soft rice noodles) as the skin, sugar or date paste, bean paste, etc. as the filling. Golden in color, tender on the outside, soft and sweet, delicious and delicious. In the Jinzhong area, there are many types of oil cakes, because of different production methods, there are cloud cakes, jujube cakes (also known as cutting cakes), raw fried cakes; because of the different raw materials used, there are glutinous rice cakes, vegetable cakes; because of the harmonic sound of "cakes" and "high", in order to take their step-by-step ascension, auspicious and rich meaning, people often eat them during the New Year's Festival or weddings and funerals, children's full moons, birthdays, old people's birthdays, and house buildings, so they are also called rice cakes and happy cakes. Over the years, oil cake has accompanied people to send the old to welcome the new, celebrate the joy, and become a traditional food loved by the people. Before liberation, it was most famous for the "Zhongxingde" in Yamen Street in Yuci City and some old-fashioned oil cakes in Qixian and Taigu.