Visit Longzhou on May Day, longzhou cuisine is not to be missed.
The first delicacy: Longzhou horseshoe puff pastry. "Horseshoe puff pastry", also known as "honey stuffing", is named because it resembles a horseshoe. It is a traditional food of Longxian County, and a precious pastry given away by folk people when visiting relatives and friends.
"Horseshoe puff pastry" was originally a court meal of the Tang Dynasty. One year, when Empress Eldest Sun returned to Longzhou Province, she carried "horseshoe puff pastry" as an accompanying gift, and the villagers praised it after tasting it. Later, with the consent of the empress, the mother's family sent a skillful assistant cook to learn the recipe and production method of "horseshoe puff pastry" from the accompanying imperial cook, and this court name was introduced to Longzhou, and later introduced to the people, well-known in Ganshan, and became a folk precious food.
Second delicacy: Longzhou warm pot
Longzhou warm pot, its long history, originated from the folk, popular in the folk, belongs to the local characteristics of Longzhou. It is an indigenous delicacy that must be eaten by local folk new year and major festivals, steaming hot and rich in warm pots, and it is also the last "table dish" on the banquet. The earliest utensils of Longzhou warm pot are special handmade clay sand ware, that is, casserole pots, the firing of this pot, the fusion of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, soil is the source of all things, can accommodate all things, so there will be no chemical reaction with food, any food of sweet and sour bitter spicy will only maintain the original taste! Ancient pottery casserole has: good heat gathering, durable, acid and alkali resistance, health and environmental protection, heating pot extension, natural purity.
Third delicacy: Longzhou lamb steamed bun
Longxian lamb bubbles and other parts of the Xifu mutton bubbles are different, steamed bun (white-noodle scone) customers break by hand, put in a bowl, hot soup, add some vermicelli sheep blood, sprinkle with green onions, sugar garlic, is one of the daily breakfasts of Longxian people.
Fourth cuisine: Longzhou cold plate (Shaanxi cuisine classic)
Legend has it that in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, in the northwest of the Longzhou tribe came a private visit to the prefect, although it is very poor, but the prefect every time to longzhou Guanshan foot peasant family is very considerate of the people's feelings, one day, when he ate in the family, the housewife brought him a cold dish, the cold dish looks very simple from the surface, when it tastes fragrant, particularly refreshing, suddenly attracted the attention of the prefect, immediately said to the entourage: "I want to bring this cold dish back to the house." He finally understood the meaning of the prefect, and hired a clever woman in the countryside at the foot of Guanshan Mountain to make this dish for the prefect in fuchu.
Fifth delicacy: Longzhou oil swirl
Oil swirl is a traditional flavor food in Longxian County. In the third year of Xuan reunification (1911), Yang Qingxiu, a famous chef from longxian county in the late Qing Dynasty, opened a stir-fry restaurant on the north side of the west street of the county town, and concurrently operated noodles. After Yang's death, his son Yang Guixiang inherited his father's business and was particularly good at the oil spin making taught by his father. In the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), Yang Chuanyi was in Yan Hancheng. Yan Hancheng studied diligently and grew rapidly, and was more unique in the production of oil spinners, ranking first among the three great masters of the county town of Chen Mingde, Liu Qinxue and Gao Tiangui, and his production skills have been passed down to this day.
Sixth delicacy: Longzhou Majia roast chicken
Majia roast chicken is a famous Hui food in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. It was first created by ma Longsheng, a Muslim in Longxian County. In the Qing Dynasty, the ancestors of the Ma family moved to Longzhou. Bring the brine chicken craft to Longxian County and sell it in the streets with baskets.
Majia roast chicken is selected from the free-range native chicken of about two years of real estate, brine with dozens of ancestral traditional Chinese medicine secret recipes and recycled old soups, the finished roasted ** shape is complete, the color is bright orange, the aroma is mellow, the Chinese medicine is light and fragrant** tongue, in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia intersection area and even Xi'an, Lanzhou, Yinchuan, Chengdu have a market.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight-Nation Alliance occupied Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an, and the Shaanxi Governor offered the Majia roast chicken sent by the Fengxiang prefect to Lafayette to taste. Cixi even said "Good chicken," after enjoying the Majia roast chicken. "Roast chicken has become famous.
Majia roast chicken is a snack, Longzhou Hotel will introduce it into the "eight shoulders, five belts and six spices", perfect halal food and Western Qin feast combination, so that visitors can enjoy the blessings of Majia roast chicken while tasting other famous dishes in Longzhou.
Seventh delicacy: Longzhou sugar crispy steamed buns
Sugar puff pastry is a sweet snack and is a unique food in Longxian County. When making, brown sugar, green and red silk, white sesame seeds, peanut kernels, walnut kernels, etc., add flour and mix well with rapeseed oil to make the filling; roll out the fermented dough into a dough skin wrapped in "puff pastry", roll out into a round cake and bake. Longzhou Hotel's sugar puff pastry has a golden appearance, layered puff pastry, crisp and sweet entrance, and is loved by eaters.
Eighth delicacy: Longzhou mixed dumplings
Churning is a common meal used by the people of Longxian County to make ends meet during the years of hardship. Longzhou Hotel conforms to people's nostalgia psychology and new concept of diet, using vegetable juice and high-quality wheat noodles and corn flour to make churn balls, dipping sauce hot to eat, diced cold mix, hot stir-frying, soup frying, but also leak "fish" cool and hot frying.