"When you want to eat a good meal, go around Boshan Mountain", this proverb is widely spread in Shandong folk. Foreign friends come to Zibo as a guest, want to taste local dishes, I will not hesitate to list a table of Boshan cuisine, because in the hearts of many Zibo people, Boshan cuisine is the soul of Zibo cuisine, the essence of Lu Chinese cuisine, there are delicious Boshan crispy pot, tender Boshan fried meat, soft and delicious Boshan tofu box... Unlike other schools of cuisine, Boshan cuisine has its own unique character - kindness, that is, real, close to the people, grounded, and it is Boshan risotto that gives full play to this character.
Good taste of the year, warm to the heart
Boshan risotto is a soup dish that is associated with "Nian". La Yue sent away the Stove King, and no one in the world presided over the kitchen spoon matter, so he could not open the fire. What should I do if there are guests in the house? The clever housewives simmered a pot on the heating charcoal stove, boiled water, poured a small spoonful of lard, fine meatballs, shiitake mushrooms, and wood ear fungus under the pot, and then Chinese New Year's Eve fried tofu and fried meat, drizzled with soy sauce, and finally spread the cabbage, slowly simmered, the vegetable meat and soup slowly merged, soaked in each other, and finally became a pot, let the fried goods freeze hard enough to make them soften the bones, boil out the oil, sprinkle pepper before the pot, a few drops of sesame oil, fresh and fragrant, mouth-watering. The family sits around a table, each picking up the favorite bite, and the stew becomes a rich and diverse assorted hot pot, which is warmed to the heart whenever it is eaten in the mouth.
Rich and poor taste, a pot of stew
It starts with the new year tradition, and more importantly, the essence of the year. The real soul of Boshan stew lies in the word "Datong", that is, harmonious coexistence, happy harmony, just like the year, regardless of his rich and poor, peaceful reunion is a festival, and the happiness is not cut by half a point because of eating delicious food. And this Datong Thought does not simply mean that it encompasses "everything", but that it is free to do as it pleases, with its own advantages and advantages, rich in rich ways to eat, poor and poor. Richer people's homes, fish belly abalone sea cucumber bird's nest for the jun to choose, even if there is no money to buy good ingredients, it does not hurt, green vegetable pills vermicelli mushrooms stewed in a pot, seemingly different, but in fact, the same. People don't think of the food inside, but the steaming sensation of the bowl in their hands.
Mother's bowl of Chinese food, wanderer's mouth fragrant
The wanderers here are out and about, and they always think of that pot of nostalgia in their hearts. Nostalgia contains taste memories, no matter how many years a person goes out and wanders, the local sound is easy to change, but the food in the hometown can never be forgotten. Exhausted, when she returned home at the end of the year, her mother scooped out a steaming bowl of stew from the stove, perhaps nothing but cabbage and fried goods, but the taste was still indescribably warm. Fished out the vegetable meat, broke a few pieces of steamed buns into the soup, drank the soft steamed buns with soup with water, drank a lot of sweat, finished a full burp, and the fatigue of the year disappeared in an instant.
Its own Boshan risotto is as thick and honest as Zibo people, it does not need gorgeous coats, only needs a broad mind, it contains the flavor of daily life, contains the contentment of ordinary people, carries the connotation of traditional culture, it is not only a pot of dishes, a pot of nostalgia, but also a pot of culture, a pot of the same world.