As the saying goes, "The people take food as the sky". Food is a culture, an art, and an indelible memory. Diet can connect different countries and different peoples, and each food represents nostalgia.
Among the Bai special snacks, Xizhou rice dumplings are a must. Xizhou Rice Dumpling, also known as Broken Crisp, is a kind of wheat noodle scone with good color, aroma and taste, which is a flavor snack in Dali's urban and rural areas, and is most famous for the traditional Soup Dumpling of the Xizhou Bai ethnic group.
The production process of Xizhou rice dumplings:
Wheat flour is the main raw material of Xizhou rice dumplings, the noodles are quite exquisite, to add the right amount of alkali, kneading thoroughly, and then layered with essential oils, sprinkled with green onions, peppercorns, salt for salty taste; Add ham, diced meat, oil residue and brown sugar to sweeten.
After making round cakes, 6 at a time, salty and sweet, neatly placed on a round cutting board, and then brushed with oil on the upward side of the cake with a layer of sesame oil, and then baked in a frying pan.
About ten minutes later, a pot of yellow, fragrant, crispy and crisp "broken puff pastry" came out of the pot.
Hee Chau rice dumplings are grilled over a charcoal fire. The charcoal is placed in two large flat-bottomed containers, and the Xizhou rice dumpling is between these two "pans", heating up and down at the same time, the upper charcoal fire is fierce fire, and the lower charcoal fire is a low flame.
Xizhou rice dumplings are one of the traditional foods of Xizhou, where every household has its own cooking techniques. Ah Pengge, who made Xizhou Rice Dumplings, said: "I started to do it in 2001, I learned from my uncles and aunts, so that it was passed down from generation to generation, and it was very hard to do it at the beginning, I had to think about how to do it well while learning, there are four generations in total, I am the fourth generation." The inventor of Xizhou Candy is very famous, that is, Dagou, Xizhou Canon itself is the culture of Xizhou, passed down from generation to generation, to make this Candy more delicious, more delicious. I want to pass on this Xizhou rice dumpling, protect it well, and pass it on to the next generation."
In addition to being a pure handmade food, Xizhou rice dumplings also represent tradition and are a very important cultural heritage.
Salty Xizhou rice dumplings
Sweet And chauvin
In some ways, Xizhou can remind people of the traditional Italian food - pizza. Of course, for Italians, Xizhou canon is a new taste experience, such a simple food, but everyone who has eaten it is full of praise. The reason is simple, you just need to taste it and you will understand that Xizhou canon is really addictive. Almost all customers, including locals or tourists from other places, can attest to this.
Xizhou rice is not only delicious and fragrant, but also cheap and affordable, has always been a convenient food in daily life, much popular with people, and at the same time, it is also an excellent portable food for going out to work or travel.