【Zheng Chenggong is the ancestor of #Taiwan snacks】
#Sea Oyster Fried # is a special snack in southern Fujian and Taiwan, in Taiwan its earliest name is "fried food chase", originated from the traditional dim sum in the Anping area of Tainan, when the sweet potato powder pulp wrapped with water is wrapped in oysters, eggs, green onions, coriander and other ingredients to fry the cake.
Oyster frying in Taiwan is called "#oyster frying #", Taiwan's oyster frying method is slightly different, Taiwan oyster frying method is to mix the ingredients of sweet potato flour, water, leeks in advance, and the sweet and spicy sauce, tomato sauce, soy sauce paste, miso, sugar, water, Taibai powder into a sauce for later. In a frying pan, add the oysters and fry them until they are seven minutes cooked. Add half a bowl and fry until it solidifies and becomes transparent. Finally, turn over a good "pancake" and add eggs and vegetables, fry the front and back sides, and drizzle with sauce when eating. Taiwan oyster sauce ingredients are not limited to garlic, but can be used leeks or green onion rice, there are also seasonal vegetables as the ingredients, sauces are sand tea, curry, peanut butter and so on.
The origin of sea oyster frying is also related to Taiwan, folk rumors, in 1661 AD, the Dutch army occupied Tainan, Zheng Chenggong led troops from Luermen to invade, intending to recover the lost land, Zheng army was like a bamboo defeat of the Dutch army, the Dutch army in a rage, the rice and grain are all hidden, Zheng army in the lack of food in the emergency of wisdom, simply take local materials to Taiwan special oysters, sweet potato flour mixed with water and one and pancakes to eat, fill the stomach of soldiers, greatly enhance the morale of the army, spend several months after the siege of Theransha City, Finally succeeded in recovering Taiwan from the Dutch. Unexpectedly, it has been passed down to future generations, and oyster fried has always been a popular snack in the province.
Taiwan published "History of the Opening of the Taiwan War. The Victory of the First Battle between East and West" author Su Guoyi also has this description:
On this day, Zheng Chenggong returned to the camp, the army saw the commander's face expressionless, and then looked at the situation of the subordinates around him, the situation was not good, each one with a black face, hanging on the shoulders, revealing from the overall language that "it was another day of fruitless return." The soldiers were hungry and almost collapsed.
Zheng successfully stepped into the tent, and before he could sit down, he immediately ordered his men to go out and buy a large number of oysters.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Can you eat oysters alone? What's the use of buying more? Tens of thousands of people still have to go hungry, don't they!
Looking at the expressions of his subordinates, Zheng Chenggong did not pay much attention to it, and only told him to hurry up and do it!
After several days of inspection, Zheng Chenggong found that the Taijiang Inland Sea was rich in oysters, and the output was quite rich, enough for the army to eat for a while, eating oysters alone, naturally unable to fill the hunger, he never wanted the army to eat only oysters.
The oysters were bought back, the army was on fire, the preparations were prepared, in the face of a large number of oysters, no one knew where to start, at this time, a calm voice came from behind the crowd: "Take the sweet potato powder!" ”
The person who shouted for sweet potato powder was not a cat or a dog, but the commander who was high above!
For a moment, everyone was stunned. The manager is not the manager, does not sit in the command, changes to a cook, cooks for everyone? What's that called!
Zheng Chenggong did not pay much attention to countless pairs of questioning eyes, fat oysters were thrown on a large iron pot, fried twice, until people could smell the delicious caramelized aroma, they all came around to see the end, he was not in a hurry, sweet potato powder and water, to the iron pot, for a time, fragrant and seductive food aroma came to the nose.
He did not fake the hands of others, Zheng Chenggong personally cooked, shouted: "chopsticks", immediately someone handed over chopsticks, he picked up a piece and personally tasted a bite, chewed carefully, the taste is OK!
The chopsticks were handed to his subordinates, and Zheng Chenggong's sharp gaze slowly swept toward the hungry soldiers, and finally pointed to the iron pot that was still steaming with the aroma of food, and said: "Eat this." ”
This food is not simple, the future experience is not shabby, hundreds of years later, won the top few famous snacks in Southern Fujian, Taiwan: sea oyster fried""
Of course, this is a widely circulated "legend", but Zheng Chenggong's suggestion that the army use oysters specially produced along the southern coast of Taiwan and fried into sweet potato flour to eat is not entirely untrustworthy.
Native to the Americas, the sweet potato became China's only legal foreign trade port during the Ming Dynasty because of the #Yuegang # in Haicheng County, Zhangzhou, and the sweet potato was introduced to China at the end of the 16th century. In 1603, Chen Di's "Records of Dongfan" recorded taiwan sweet potatoes for the first time, and the first person who opened Taiwan, #Yan Siqi," who was originally from Haicang Qingjiao Village, led the Minnan brothers to develop the location of Taiwan in 1621, and there was also an ancient place name called Sweet Potato Liao in Shuibei Village, Yunlin Shuilin Township, which is still planted everywhere, and the Mazu Temple was named Sweet Potato Liao Ma.
Zheng Chenggong arrived in Taiwan 60 years after the introduction of sweet potatoes to Taiwan, and will definitely make good use of this drought-tolerant and easy-to-grow crop as food for the army, plus today's Tainan and Chiayi areas are still the rich production areas of sea oysters, and Zheng Chenggong, who is accustomed to the minnan diet, invented sea oyster frying in a hurry.
The content is taken from "Haicang Journey - Food Chapter"
The picture shows the oyster fried snack at the Shuixian Palace Market in Tainan City, a copy of NT$60.
