Yellow braised turtle is a famous dish in Chuxiang. Hubei people have eaten turtles for at least 2,000 years. Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet of the Warring States period, wrote such a verse in "Summoning The Soul": "The turtle cannon lamb has some rubbing; the sour crane is slated, the fried red pigeon is a little, the chicken is cowardly, and the experience is not pleasant." Meaning: stewed turtle, grilled lamb, sweet syrup with sugar cane; Vinegar-cooked swans, braised wild duck, red goose gray crane fried crisp yellow, steamed chicken, braised fat turtle, strong aroma and not hurtful.
Hubei is the land of fish and rice, and there has always been a custom of eating fish. After thousands of years of evolution, many ways to eat fish have been created, and the meat of the fish is made into fish rounds, which is one of them. The origin of the fish circle can be traced back more than 2,000 years, and it is clearly recorded in the Jingchu Chronicle. King Wen of Chu, who lived before 675 BC, was stuck in the throat by a fish thorn when he ate a fish, and immediately beheaded the official in anger. Scared that the chef did not dare to cook the whole fish for him to eat, he tried to remove the fish bones, chopped the fish into a colored mushroom, and made into fish balls. Lu Yongliang, a young chef at Wuchang Great China Restaurant, on the basis of inheriting the traditional production method, made the fish balls into the shape of barrel petals, and boiled them with chicken soup, shiitake mushrooms and other ingredients and spices. He used this dish and the "Mother and Child Conference" to participate in the first national culinary master technical performance held in Beijing in October 1983, and was named one of the ten best chefs in the country. Now Great China Restaurant, Yunhe Restaurant, etc. are serving this dish.
Amaranth noodle nest is one of the local snacks in Wuhan, similar to another kind of snack noodle nest in Wuhan, the difference is that sweet potatoes (Wuhan called amaranth) are added to the noodle nest, which also belongs to a kind of noodle nest and is also a delicious fried snack. The iron spoon used for frying, about 5 inches in diameter, is concave on all sides, the central bulge, with another spoon to scoop that mixed pulp into the noodle spoon, scrape in the middle, and then go down, the concave place is thick because of the batter, so it is thick, and it is fried like a circle.
The consumption of amaranth noodle nest can be used as a breakfast staple alone, as well as a combination of hot dry noodles, sake/eggnog, rice noodles or soup noodles, and the latter is more extensive.