Many people say that Maoming is a food city, each county and city has its own special cuisine, and many foods have been on the CCTV (China on the tip of the tongue) food program, spreading Maoming's folk cuisine to the world.
In fact, Maoming has a folk food CCTV (on the tip of the tongue of China) did not shoot the report, Than Huazhou beef brisket powder, electric white duck porridge, Xinyi chai gun powder, Gaozhou salt baked chicken is also famous, almost every household eats, it is Maoming white porridge. Maoming white porridge is a simple concept, it spreads throughout the western Guangdong region, Leizhou Peninsula, Hainan Island, and most of Guidong.
Maoming white porridge every household is cooking white porridge, there are also people called boiled porridge, first of all, the rice is washed clean, do not rub the rice hard when digging rice, which will make the nutrient loss, wash clean after putting the appropriate amount of water, according to personal preferences thin cotton to add rice and water, boil the slow fire, when the rice blossoms have been seven ripe, turn off the heat for half an hour to drink.
Maoming white porridge is not as thin as the white porridge of Guangzhou people, the highest work is that the porridge water should be clear, the rice should be cooked thoroughly and hard, and the porridge should be both fragrant and the taste of rice, to be precise, it is better to use porridge to describe it more accurately. Because their white porridge mainly relies on side dishes, side dishes are Maoming's specialties, are the farmer's own small dishes, soup beans, soup cabbage, soup mustard leaves, pickled taro, boiled soybeans, beanscorn acid, sauerkraut, dried salted fish, electric white shrimp sauce, salted duck eggs, dried radish, squeezed vegetables, dried melon, dried cucumbers, pickled yellow olives, fried river fish, fried poached eggs and so on.
The weather in Maoming City is relatively hot, the average person to the summer home three meals are boiled white porridge, some people say that eating white porridge to solve a lot of problems, mainly to eliminate thirst, but also in time to supplement physical fitness, engaged in physical work, to the summer and autumn are three meals a day to drink white porridge. People who have been to Maoming to drink know that it is a three-star hotel in Maoming City, someone invited to drink to the last dish is white porridge to send sauerkraut plus catch garlic seedlings, teeth left back to gan, people are eating fingers, big fish and big meat after the bowl of white porridge to send sauerkraut to catch garlic seedlings, stomach relief, spirit.
In Maoming city, Gaozhou city, Huazhou city, Dianbai city, Xinyi urban area, all over the township have opened a lot of white porridge shops, in the past are in the market, station, wharf street intersection open open stalls, now the town Chuangwei boss out of helplessness to rent a shop into the house operation.
In the past, the people who came to the porridge shop to eat porridge were poor people, manual laborers, street vendors, and low-income groups. Spend three dollars can eat at will, porridge shop owners are by selling white porridge, with small dishes to make money, making money is not a lot, from morning business to night, their persistence, are guarding those who run for life.
The breakfast of many local families in Maoming City is white porridge with pickles, salted fish, salted shrimp paste, melon salt, dried radish, fritters and so on. The breakfast stalls in the streets and alleys are also white porridge to send intestinal powder, and there are also white porridge boiled pork liver, powder intestines, lean meat, plus plus minus, everyone likes.
One side of the water and soil to raise one side of the people, people in western Guangdong like to drink porridge, just like Shandong, He people like to eat noodle steamed buns, there was nothing strange about it, but in the past poor years, many poor families rely on white porridge to fill their hunger, three hundred and sixty days a year are drinking white porridge, only a few days of the New Year to eat enough. Many families, in order to save rice, boil white porridge with water, and some families cook a small amount of rice plus sweet potatoes, taro, and green vegetables together to eat, which can not only fill hunger, but also nourish and healthy.
Now everyone's life is better, but many people in Maoming still like to cook white porridge to eat, which is not a problem of poverty and wealth, but a habit of life, but also a folk custom of life. Many people say that guangdong people used to eat dried radish to send white porridge because it was poor, and now everyone likes to eat white porridge, which can be said to be for health, white porridge has both nutrition and nourishment.
Mao celebrities can not do without white porridge for three meals, white porridge is the soul of their eating habits, although there is no praise from Gao Daquan, but for hundreds of years, it has fed countless people.
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(The original article has been originally posted in Baijia)