Editor's Note
【Beijing Tourism Network Report】As the capital of China and the world's famous tourist city, Beijing is very rich in tourism resources! Beijing Travel Network will recommend a series of Beijing tourism products in the near future, so that you can experience the culture of Beijing while also bringing home the most authentic tourism products! Today, Xiaobian recommends for everyone: Beijing Xianyuan Food Brewing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xianyuan") long-established tourist goods - curd milk and soybean sauce.
Xianyuan's soy sauce tofu (scientific name curd milk), Dashun Zhai's sugar fire, Xiao Lou's roast catfish, known in history as the "Tongzhou Three Treasures". Xianyuan was founded in 1918, from Wantong Sauce Garden to Tongzhou Brewery to Beijing Xianyuan Food Brewing Co., Ltd., a small piece of soy sauce tofu in the mouth of generations of people, more and more fragrant. Xianyuan's time-honored signs became louder and louder as the years passed.
Borrow the aura of the Grand Canal
The blank is a collection of southern materials and northern flavor
Curd milk is a traditional product of Xianyuan and has a history of more than 80 years. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the mother river of Tongzhou, and the property style of tongzhou ancient city is closely related to the Grand Canal. So, how did Xianyuan Curd Milk borrow the aura of the Grand Canal to become a model of southern goods and northern planting? And listen to the editor to tell you about it.
In the early days of the creation of Wantong Sauce Garden (formerly known as "Xianyuan"), the blanks for the production of curd milk were purchased from the Weihe Curd Milk Factory in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. The blank of curd milk is divided into three kinds: Taifang, Dafang and Mending, and the raw materials are soybeans and fava beans. After the blank is loaded in Shaoxing, it needs to be loaded on a ship at the Hangzhou wharf.
Swinging canal water, leisurely small wooden boats, tracing the north, it takes more than a month. The blank travels day and night from south to north, and the aura of the five major water systems runs from Shaoxing at 30 degrees north latitude to Tongzhou at 40 degrees north latitude, gathering the essence of the sun and moon at ten latitudes, so it becomes the taste of the south and the north.
After the blank arrives at the factory, it is immediately put into red yeast and yellow wine, and the altar is sealed after adding condiments according to the taste of the Beijingers, and after exposure to the sun, it is put into storage after maturity. After a year, the taste of the condiment has been completely immersed in the curd milk. The curd brewed according to this process has a delicate texture, aromatic aroma and unique flavor. Since the 1920s, Xianyuan curd milk has been famous in Gyeonggi and sold well in the eight counties of Jingdong. Most of the officials and civilian merchants who take the Grand Canal waterway to Tongzhou will buy some Xianyuan curd milk to take in all directions, and after a long time, Xianyuan curd milk will become famous.
Ventilation and curvature process
Preserve the traditional characteristics of curd milk
It is understood that wantong Sauce Garden first supplied Wu Peifu's army, and then sent pickles and spices to the Seventh Brigade of Feng Yuxiang's department, Zhang Zhijiang. By the early 1950s, pickle sauce, tofu and other products were supplied to construction sites such as Miyun Reservoir in large quantities. Due to the unique business method of Wantong Sauce Garden, it has been developing steadily and the scale of the enterprise has been expanding.
After 1928, the canal waterway became increasingly difficult. Wantong Sauce Garden once imported blanks from Tianjin Nankai and Beijing Wankang. In 1939, a flash flood broke out in the upper reaches of the Grand Canal, and the water directly flooded Tianjin, and the shipping of the Grand Canal was interrupted. Wantong Sauce Garden began to produce its own blanks and explored a whole set of methods including blank making, fermentation, koji making and storage, preserving and highlighting the traditional characteristics of curd milk.
After the public-private partnership, Wantong Sauce Garden adopted a combination of modern production equipment and traditional craftsmanship to revitalize the old brand and carry forward the old products. In order to further improve the output of curd milk, after several years of efforts, the company finally developed a new process of "ventilation koji", and successfully developed the "Xianyuan Curd Milk" No. 1 soup, so that the quality of curd milk to a higher level.
Sauce fragrant soybean sauce is exquisite
Rich flavor for a long time fried non-stick pan
In addition to curd milk, Xiaobian will also introduce you to another product of Xianyuan - soybean paste. Don't underestimate this soybean sauce, old Beijingers love to eat fried sauce noodles, a bowl of simple noodles, but also contains a lot of rules and exquisite.
Soybean sauce has always been the first choice for the sauce part of the fried sauce noodles. Xianyuan's soybean sauce is a lump of dry sauce, you have to use soy sauce to boil, the sauce is fragrant, mellow, nutritious, the important point is a long-fried non-stick pan. If you want to be convenient, you can also directly buy Xianyuan's thin yellow sauce to make the sauce.
The fried sauce can not only use yellow sauce, but also add some sweet noodle sauce if you are particular. According to the record in the "Lady of the Palace": half yellow sauce, half noodle sauce, called two waters. Yellow sauce is mellow, sweet noodle sauce is fresh and sweet, the two are balanced and fried thoroughly, less yellow sauce of the sauce introduction taste, more or less with a little wine aroma, this is the practice of the Qing Palace.
Today, Xiaobian recommended curd milk and soy sauce tofu for you, and also launched a beautiful gift combination, which is definitely a good gift for you to give to your family, relatives and friends. If you are excited and want to buy it and try it out at home, you can buy it on-site or call us for advice at the following locations:
Shop Name: Xianyuan 1st Store (Longding Garden)
Address: Beijing Tongzhou District Yunjing South Street Longding Park west side of the bottom business
Shop Name: Xianyuan No.2 Store (Blues Salon)
Address: Beijing Tongzhou District Yile Middle Street Cuiping Li No. 7 building bottom business
Shop Name: Xianyuan No.3 Store (Liu'an Fangyuan)
Address: Beijing Tongzhou District Yuqiao Xili Middle Street No. 34 building bottom business
About the enterprise
Beijing Xianyuan Food Brewing Co., Ltd. was founded in 1918, located in The Economic and Technological Development Zone, Tongzhou District, Beijing, covering an area of 40 acres, producing six series of soy sauce, rice vinegar, yellow sauce, curd milk, vermicelli, cooking wine, etc., a total of more than 80 varieties.
In the development process of nearly a hundred years, the company adheres to the traditional fermentation process, adheres to the real material and traditional formula, integrates modern science and technology, and wins a series of honors and good reputation with excellent product quality and excellent inheritance technology. In 1999, it was recognized as a Chinese time-honored enterprise by the Ministry of Domestic Trade; since 2002, it has been rated as Beijing Trustworthy Enterprise, Beijing High-quality Condiment Enterprise, Excellent Export Enterprise, Beijing Key Leading Enterprise of Agricultural Industrialization, and Advanced Collective of Beijing Grain Industry for many consecutive years. In 2005, it was identified by the Ministry of Agriculture as "Innovation Institution for Deep Processing of Agricultural and Sideline Products", and in 2011, it was awarded the "Most Popular Chinese Time-honored Brand Award" and the "Integrity Management System Construction" of the first batch of pilot units. Its Xianyuan curd milk has also been well-known as the designated product of the 11th Asian Games.