Huguosi snacks are one of the representatives of beijing's local snacks, known for their rich variety, outstanding characteristics, and profound historical and cultural heritage. Huguosi Halal Beijing-style snacks are mainly based on the classic varieties of temple fairs. There are mainly all kinds of fine stuffing Lantern, halal tangyuan, Aiwowo, bean noodle cake, sesame rice cake, fruit rice cake, pea yellow, etc., fried goods have honey twist flowers, open mouth laugh, thin crisp, scorched circle, liquid food has bean juice, noodle tea, small bean porridge, offal soup, fresh soy milk, almond tofu, lotus porridge and so on. Snacks are also steamed, fried, fried, burned, fried, roasted, roasted, rinsed, fried, simmered, boiled and other methods in the cooking method. Gokokuji Halal Kyoji snacks are mainly made by hand.
Speaking of the Huguosi Snack Bar, we have to start with the Huguo Temple in old Beijing. According to some data, the Huguo Temple located in Xicheng District was founded in the Yuan Dynasty, and it was originally called Chongguo Temple. The earliest is the former residence of Yuan Cheng Xiang Tokto, called Chongkuo Temple, which was built from the Yuan Dynasty to the First Century (1264-1295 AD), renamed Dalongshan Temple in the fourth year of Ming Xuande (1429 AD), and named Dalongshan Temple In the eighth year of Ming Chenghua (1472 AD), it was named Dalongshan Temple. It is the former residence of the Yuan Chancellor Tokto. Because the temple is located in xicheng, the old Beijingers also call it "west temple".
The "Beiping Temple Fair Survey" records that in the old days, the temple fair was opened in conjunction with the religious festivals of Buddhism and Taoism. In the early days of Beijing, there were many temples and temples, and it is said that there were more than 800 temples in and around the city. In the past, the temple would have incense to worship the gods, some borrowed Buddhas to travel in the spring, and some ran market transactions. Among them, the temple fair with the content of the city center is the most lively. The Longfu Temple in Dongcheng and the Gokokuji Temple in Xicheng are also known as the "East Temple" and the "West Temple" Society.
Gokokuji Temple is a temple fair on the seventh and eighth of the month. There are many stalls at the temple fair, such as silk, clothing, porcelain, antique calligraphy and painting, fans, cooking utensils, medicine, food, flowers and trees, word measurement and calculation, selling art, juggling and so on. There are many stalls, and there are naturally many goods for the whole person. Because the Qing Dynasty in Beijing had the saying of "East Rich and West Gui", most of the flag people's houses were in Xicheng. And the "nobles" "take more of their daily needs to the temple fairs." According to the memories of the elders, the most attractive thing about the Temple of The Protectorate is the snack floating stall that goes around the world. People who visit the temple fair, burn incense, and shop with play are tired and hungry, and naturally they will look for a roar, surround or stand or squat, and the three layers of "pad patch patch" These temple fair snacks of the year are exquisite and varied, adding a lot of color to the temple fair.......
In 1956, the government organized more than a dozen stallholders who were famous at the Gokokuji Temple, and opened a halal snack bar at the current address of No. 93 of the Gokokuji Temple, and the gokokuji snacks began to develop on a real scale. Huguo Temple is located in the north of the West Fourth Arch Building in Xicheng, the north of the West Entrance Inner Road of Huguosi Street, and from Deshengmennei Street in the east to Xinjiekou South Street in the west, with a total length of more than 580 meters. It is one of the busiest neighborhoods in Beijing in the past. Gokokuji Halal Snacks got its name from the Western Temple Festival snacks. Gokoku-ji Temple was very popular in the 1930s. A variety of Beijing-style snack foods compete here, each showing its own style.
Noodle tea is one of the characteristic varieties of Gokokuji Halal snacks. In the past, it was usually sold in the afternoon. A poem said: "When you wake up hot noodle tea at the beginning of your afternoon dream, you must always add dried ginger and sesame sauce." Drinking noodle tea is very particular about eating methods, do not use chopsticks, spoons and other tableware when eating, but one hand bowl along the side of the bowl circle drink, non-old Beijingers may not have this way to eat. Why use this way of eating? This is related to the flavor of tasting noodle tea. Steamed bun twist flowers are the finest halal snacks of Gokokuji Temple. The process flow is complicated. First, put the alum, alkali, brown sugar, sugar osmanthus in a pot and dissolve it with warm water, then pour the flour in and evenly, and then wrap it up for a while, and then roll it into a small agent of 40 grams. Stir the hemp seeds with boiling water, glue the small agent to the mixed hemp seeds, break into a small 10 cm long barcode in the dish, and put the yards 3 to 4 layers before feeding. After cooking, pick up two small strips and use your hands to break them into 2 long rope strips, fold them in two directions to form 8 strips, pinch the two ends together, and form two pointed, medium and large jujube cores or fan shapes, and fry them in oil. When frying, the peanut oil in the pot is 50% hot, take the pinch head of the steamed bun twist, swing the billet back and forth into the oil pan to make it set, and after the billet is slightly stiff, the whole is fried in oil, and fried into a brownish yellow. The quality of the steamed bun is characterized by brownish yellow color, crispy texture, sweet and delicious.
Bean juice is also one of the most popular varieties of halal snacks at Gokokuji Temple. The drinking of bean juice by Beijingers began around the eighteenth year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1753 AD). There is a saying that "Beijing bean juice, the lifeblood of the flag people" is not unreasonable. Bean juice was originally a drink for the Imperial Diet of the Qing Dynasty. Although the "taste" is individual, it has a health effect. Summer can quench thirst and quench heat, winter can clear the heat and warm sun, drink it in all seasons, beneficial to appetizers, spleen, detoxification and dryness. Drinking bean juice is exquisite, and it must be accompanied by scorched rings and pickle shreds. People say that bean juice is a special snack that "tastes outside the food". In order to maintain its characteristics, the Gokokuji Snack Bar has been operating continuously since the 1950s. Some foreign overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots came to the Snack Bar of Huguosi Temple to taste the rich local customs of Beijing. In August 1997, the first "Chinese Famous Snacks" identification activity organized by the former Ministry of Domestic Trade and the China Cuisine Association was recognized as "Chinese Famous Snacks" by the bean juice of the Huguosi Snacks.
Over the past 50 years, the Huguosi snack bar has retained the traditional varieties of Beijing flavor of the old store, but the appearance of the store has changed with the urban transformation of Beijing, the dining environment has undergone new changes, and the snacks sold have not only maintained the flavor of old Beijing, but also adjusted to adapt to the changing needs of modern people's tastes. Yang Boru, an old technician, was specially hired to teach his skills in the store, and changed the original large, black, coarse and bad food into small and exquisite snacks. Although the environment has changed, the purpose of affordable service to the people has not changed. Due to the changes in the dining environment, the quality of snacks is superior and there are many varieties, which attracts a large number of Chinese and foreign diners.
In 2001, the Snack Bar of Huguosi Temple was further renovated and renovated, which not only highlighted the characteristics of the old Beijing style, but also allowed customers to enjoy the old Beijing style while tasting the old Beijing snacks. The roof of the store is decorated with green tile eaves, the walls are hung with the picture frame of the Temple of the Protectorate, the four pillars of the house are hung with snack allusions and famous people's shadows, and the old Beijing face mask is specially set up.
Huatian Food Group has also given special policies to its snack bars, including spending money on the uniform decoration and unified logo of the snack bar facades and environment, and constantly excavating and improving traditional varieties: pea yellow overshoots, donkey rolling and layering, screw turning, saqi horses, toads spitting honey to standardize the process, Seiko accurate material does not go out of taste. Snacks pay attention to the season, so the spring pea yellow, Ai wo wo, summer "ice bowl" grilled cake, leaky fish, autumn beef tendon nest, crisp twist flower, winter pot cake, bowl cake, fruit rice cake, Lantern and so on should enter the market in season. At the same time, according to the changes in customer tastes, snacks are also "fashionable", butter mouth glutinous rice cakes, assorted stir-fried knots, spicy chicken noodles, bull's eye buns, cream fried cakes, ginger sauce steak forks, Mandarin duck crisp, butterfly rolls, beef roast cakes, orchid cups and other dry and thin sweet and salty meat vegetarian vegetarian. After excavation, introduction and innovation, the variety of snacks in Huguosi Temple has reached 100, which can be described as dazzling and wonderful.
In the "13th Spring to The Riverside Beijing Folklore Exhibition" held in Singapore during the Spring Festival in 1999, more than a dozen varieties of classic snacks of The Gokokuji Temple snacks were brightened, and the eyes of Singaporeans "lit up". The number one news of the day's radio and television stations: Beijing snacks are wonderful! Exquisite snacks are not only praised by Singaporean citizens, but also Singapore Prime Minister Wu Zuodong immediately booked 100 donkey rolls to be sent to the state banquet after participating in the event, and exquisite snacks have been listed on the "Hall of Elegance". In November 2004, the Snack Division of Huguosi Temple sent chefs to Macao to participate in the "Macao Fourth Cuisine Festival", and his exquisite snack skills and delicious Beijing snacks were widely loved and praised by Macao citizens. In the following years, Gokokuji snacks gradually became famous. However, whenever Beijing holds a large international and political event, the Huatian Huguo Temple is specially invited to serve snacks.
In order to further display the snack culture, so that Chinese and foreign guests can taste the flavor characteristics of snacks and appreciate the old Beijing style, the Chinese time-honored Huguosi Snack Bar has carefully developed and excavated innovation on the basis of inheriting traditional Beijing snacks, and has created a "snack banquet" with its exquisite snack making skills and meticulous banquet design concept, and exclusively created a "snack banquet" that integrates snack products and halal specialties in one banquet. The "Snack Feast" is famous for its variety and unique banquet style. During the meal, Ai wo wo, donkey rolling, pea yellow, elephant nose cake and other flavor snacks, fine selection of ingredients, beautiful shape, a variety of techniques, steaming, frying, boiling, branding, or soft or crisp, or salty or sweet, adhering to the essence of the Beijing court and folk snacks for hundreds of years. At the same time, the "Snack Banquet" pays attention to the combination of meat and vegetarian food, reasonable nutrition, and selects banquet dishes with halal diet characteristics such as Coriander Burst Dan, Braised Beef Tail, and Its Honey. The whole set of banquets is very characteristic of Beijing's local flavor and rich cultural heritage, and has won the title of "Beijing Fine Banquet", which is loved by celebrities and citizens in Beijing, and has become a wonderful flower in the food industry of Beijing.