Now, because of the frequent exchange of food culture and the flow of people around, the food eaten by southerners and northerners is becoming more and more similar, and the tastes are becoming more and more similar.
However, a few decades ago, the difference in taste between the north and the south Chinese was still very large, and it can be said that it was clear and distinct. At that time, it was extremely difficult for Southern food to occupy the vast market in the north, and only a few Southern foods could do it.
Fool melon seeds
Fool melon seeds are a typical example. Nian Guangjiu, a highly controversial pioneer of getting rich at the beginning of reform and opening up, became a rich man by frying melon seeds. At that time, his reputation was very large, and it can be said that there were people everywhere in the north and south of the great river who knew Nian Guangjiu. Not only did he know him, but he also loved to eat the stupid melon seeds he sold.
For most northerners, the melon seeds they have eaten before are original sunflower seeds fried in an ordinary iron pot. It was Nian Guangjiu who let them eat sweet melon seeds for the first time. And most northerners can't eat it, and probably can't imagine that watermelon seeds can also be eaten as snacks. Still Nian Guangjiu, he presented them with watermelon seeds with the sweet aroma of watermelon juice on the shell. Although this thing is not easy to stumble, it is still popular.
At that time, the efficiency of state-owned enterprises and township enterprises was relatively good, and the workers became sacks of stupid melon seeds every New Year, and spent a year with melon seeds.
Cantonese egg yolk mooncake
Before this kind of moon cake appeared in the north, the moon cake eaten by the northerners was first based on the large white skin of the five kernel fillings, and only the people in the city could eat any red bean filling, lotus paste filling, and hard skin moon cake. But neither way has it made northerners feel that it is very amazing to form a loyal fan base.
But since the advent of egg yolk mooncakes in the 1990s, many northerners have really been amazed.
They had never eaten such a mooncake, and under the thin hard crust, it was a rich flavor, strictly speaking, a little sweet, and a chestnut paste with a little medicinal flavor. Then there's a huge duck egg yolk. This yolk rustles, with both sweet and salty taste, although a little strange, but the right greasy feeling to eat, but many northerners are happy. So after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the egg yolk mooncake will never be absent again.
Nanjing plate duck (saltwater duck)
It is also a silent food that does not know when it will be spread throughout all the northern cities and many rural areas.
It is true that this food is not very famous in any northern city, but it is never absent. You can definitely buy it whenever you want. Even if you open a gaode or other map to search, a large number of shops may pop up, which will make you really frightened.
This dish made of fat ducks is instantly fascinated by northerners with greasy and mouthful weight. And his unique salty and fresh taste also makes northerners feel like they have met Zhiyin. Northerners are also interested in duck treasure duck intestines and duck liver, thinking that they are both tender and fragrant. In short, it is a Southern cuisine that conquered the North in its most obscure way.
Eight treasure rice
It is generally difficult for northerners to remember when the Eight Treasure Rice suddenly appeared on the table of the Northern Hotel, and gradually became an indispensable dish especially on the large table.
Now even in the northern countryside, the villagers set up a village mat in the courtyard, and the eight treasure rice has become an almost indispensable dish. Almost always, the dishes are served in the last or lower order. At first, it was the ladies and children who put down the chopsticks, and now the young adults and even the elderly have to clip a piece of chopsticks or scoop a spoon.
Buckle meat
In fact, at the dinner table, it is The northerners who have made the northerners humbled with the fiercest offensive are still the button meat of Guangdong.
This exquisite taste of Guangdong cuisine has gone to the north, but the favorite is the big brother of the rural uncle. The next day, the tired body is crumpled. Come on a large bowl of greasy button meat, let the tired and weak teeth, instigate a mouthful of melting taste, and then stir the slimy fat meat in the mouth, swallow it into the stomach at once, and then drink a mouthful of hot and spicy high wine, I don't know how comfortable.
But if you tell your fellow villagers that this is a standard Cantonese dish, they may be blinded immediately. Many people must have asked with disbelief on their faces when they were surprised: "This is not done by the northerners?" "If you tell them it was really done by Cantonese people." They were still full of doubt.