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In the past, the mainland did not have many connections between various places, and each place had its own unique characteristics and food materials, which led to great differences in eating Xi in various parts of the country.
For example, Cantonese people eat food all the time, and all kinds of medicinal herbs can be integrated into food by Cantonese people, and Sichuan cuisine is famous for its spicy and hemp food.
There is also Huaiyang cuisine, which often appears as the protagonist in state banquets.
And the state banquet is also the highest name for the level of dishes, for example, what dish has appeared at the state banquet, it is definitely a famous dish in China.
However, what is strange is that there are many dishes in the Northeast region, why are Northeast cuisines rarely seen at state banquets?
Atmospheric Northeast cuisine
In fact, there are really many famous dishes in the Northeast.
Let's talk about a few that everyone knows, such as the big skin jelly in the Northeast, in fact, the pork skin jelly in the Northeast is also found in other places, but the name is different.
For example, Henan Province calls skin jelly as offering meat, and it is generally used as an offering when worshipping ancestors during the New Year's festival in winter.
The method of skin jelly is also very simple, in fact, after cleaning the pig skin, cut it into strips, and then use the pig skin to boil out the gelatin, and then let it stand to form.
The jelly produced in this way is not greasy, and it is very elastic, and it can eat the meat with the texture of jelly.
In addition to this, there are also three fried foods in the Northeast, which are actually made by frying the lard, kidneys, and pancreas of the pig.
After the three kinds of fried are made, they are golden and crispy, although they are all made of meat, but the final product is not the taste of meat, and there is even some feeling of potato chips when eating, and many people in Northeast China usually eat it as a snack.
Then let's talk about a more heavyweight one, that is, the Northeast blood sausage.
Blood sausage can be said to be a characteristic of the Northeast, this dish lives up to its name, in fact, it is to pour pig blood into the pig's large intestine or casing, and then cook it with Northeast sauerkraut.
In fact, to be honest, I have eaten blood sausage, and the taste is indeed okay, but the problem is that many people can't accept this thing.
Therefore, the blood sausage is not widely spread throughout the country.
Then there is the chicken stew with mushrooms, which I personally feel a pity that this dish did not go to the state banquet, because this dish is quite popular and popular.
The delicate chick is served with delicious hazelnut mushrooms, and I think I can finish the soup before I put it in front of me.
There are many other famous dishes in the Northeast, such as sauerkraut stew, Northeast sauce big bones, pot wrapped meat, slippery meat, iron pot stewed goose, etc., it can be said that many Northeast dishes are widely spread throughout the country.
But the question is, why are there few classic dishes in Northeast cuisine that go to state banquets?
In fact, the reason is also very simple, as can be seen from the above description, Northeast cuisine actually highlights a feature, people who like Northeast cuisine can love it to the bones, but those who can't accept it can't eat it at all.
It's nothing like this in everyday life, after all, everyone has their own tastes.
However, the state banquet is a banquet for the main leaders of various countries, and this characteristic is not good.
Like Huaiyang cuisine and Shandong cuisine, which have been accepted by the whole country, its taste can only appear on the table of ordinary people after the precipitation of time and the unified recognition of everyone.
However, the Northeast cuisine is too local, whether it is blood sausage or skin jelly, these are all acceptable, but the acceptance is not very high.
And the style of the Northeast cuisine is a little less delicate, which may lead to a situation that others can't accept.
Therefore, the dishes that can appear at the state banquet must be those that have been widely affirmed and will not be so particular about the ingredients and materials.
So what are the dishes that often appear at state dinners?
A famous dish at the state banquet
In fact, many people have a misunderstanding about the famous dishes at the state banquet, that is, the dishes that can appear at the state banquet must be rare foods in daily life, at least the ingredients must be high, so as to meet the specifications of the state banquet.
Actually, this is a misconception.
Judging from the menus at state dinners now, many people can often come into contact with them in their daily lives.
For example, the "Belt and Road International Summit and Cooperation Forum" held in October, when the main leaders of the world came to Beijing for a meeting, and the state banquet was an indispensable part of it.
Judging from the menu at the state banquet at that time, most of the dishes that appeared were actually something that we could come into contact with in our daily lives.
Foods such as scallion beef, Peking duck, and iced pot stickers are all delicacies that we can taste in our daily life, and of course, it should not be possible to eat the specifications of the chef at the state banquet.
In addition to these dishes, there are also some more traditional famous dishes that also appear on the menu of the state banquet.
For example, the famous Sichuan cuisine, boiling cabbage.
Although Sichuan cuisine is famous throughout the country for its spicy and numb, the dish of boiled cabbage can be said to be a classic in Sichuan cuisine.
The dish of boiling cabbage looks very light, which is very different from the red appearance of Sichuan cuisine in everyone's impression, but it is not easy to make boiling cabbage.
Although the name is boiled cabbage, in fact, this dish should be called "boiled cabbage in broth", and you want to boil the broth in boiling cabbage.
Chicken, pork knuckle, ham, duck, scallops with green onion and ginger are used for boiling, and finally three types of meat are used for the seasoning.
It can be said that the process of boiling this broth alone has set a threshold, and the cost is very high, and any mistakes in the production process need to start all over again, which can be said to be a classic representative of Sichuan cuisine.
There are also braised prawns, which I believe many people have also eaten, after all, they can be found in many roadside restaurants.
As a classic Shandong dish, although it is not difficult to braised prawns, if you want to make a good taste, you need to accurately grasp the heat, otherwise the fire will be old when it is bigger, and it will be tender when it is smaller.
The braised prawns actually appeared as early as the state banquet of the founding ceremony in 1949, and it can be said that they are also frequent guests at the state banquet.
There are also classic dishes like the lion's head in Huaiyang, as the protagonist of the state banquet, Huaiyang cuisine, whose classic dishes are definitely indispensable at the state banquet.
The lion's head has been praised by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and other world leaders.
In addition to these, there are actually many famous dishes, such as Sichuan Kung Pao Chicken, which is the favorite Chinese food of former US President Trump, and now Kung Pao Chicken has also gone abroad and made its own name in the world.
There are also Huaiyang dishes such as Wensi tofu, which are extremely difficult, as well as braised pork, a traditional dish from the mainland, and squirrel mandarin fish, which is a representative of Su cuisine.
Many people have a misconception about squirrel mandarin fish, that is, they think that this dish is because the fish is made to look like a squirrel, which makes people call it squirrel mandarin fish.
Actually, no, the reason why the squirrel mandarin fish is called so is because the chef will make the mandarin fish look like a pine cone, and the person we eat this dish is the squirrel.
epilogue
In fact, there is no distinction between high and low dishes, and even the dishes that appear at state banquets are now in thousands of households.
As a famous cuisine in the mainland, Northeast cuisine still has a lot of fans in China, after all, many people like the atmosphere of Northeast cuisine and the momentum of not instigating.