As a home that likes to eat, when going out to travel, Xiaosheng is far more interested in local food than in attractions. Every time I go to Nanxun, it is no exception, and I go to find various food shops in the streets and alleys. As a "noodle" powder that loves to eat noodles, the ones who love to go to are those noodle shops.
Although it is often said that "northerners eat noodles and southerners eat", the Nanxun people also have a special affection opposite. Many of Nanxun's friends love to have a bowl of noodles in the morning, and they also like to eat noodles when eating working meals outside. In the traditional custom of Nanxun, whoever has a child will invite relatives and friends to eat noodles on the third day after birth, which is called "three faces". This shows the love of the Nanxun people.
Since ancient times, Nanxun has been a gathering place of merchants and merchants, four townships and distributions, and the merchants from the south to the north have made Nanxun's catering industry has always been very developed.
Taking pasta as an example, the early noodle restaurants in Nanxun were mainly Su-style noodles with Yangzhou flavor. The more famous noodle shops are Changxingguan, Wufulou, Sishichun, Hongxingguan and so on. In addition to a variety of noodle soups, each noodle restaurant also offers dim sum such as buns, roasted wheat, soup buns, dumplings, pot stickers, and water mill soup dumplings. In addition, there are Hubei-style noodle restaurants, which specialize in bare noodles, marinade noodles, and pickle noodles.
Therefore, Nanxun's pasta is also made from the strengths of all the families and has characteristics.
One of the characteristics of Nanxun noodles is that the noodles are relatively thin and tough, so it is easy to taste, and it has the characteristics of tenderness, smoothness and coolness.
When eating noodles, noodle toppings are also very important, and the noodle toppings in Nanxun are also popular in different regions. In the ancient town of Nanxun, the double pouring (double cross) noodles of crispy meat and fried fish are the most common. Double pouring surfaces like Yuanlou and WufuLou are very famous.
The so-called crispy meat is to take a whole piece of pork belly, add seasonings and simmer on the fire until crispy and then cut into pieces. The pork belly burned in this way is ruddy in color, fat but not greasy, melted in the mouth, fragrant and crispy, so it was named crispy meat.
Fried fish is selected from four or five pounds of fresh grass carp cut into fillets, soaked in soy sauce, salt, cooking wine for four or five hours, after marinating, fishing, and then frying in the pan with condiments. Because of the different ingredients, some of the fried fish are golden yellow, and some are dark in color, but their taste is fresh and not fishy, very delicious.
In Shuanglin, eel noodles are the first choice.
The traditional eel is selected from about 12 eels per kilogram to be divided into eel silk, filtered water and then put into the oil pot to detonate, burst dry until the cake is about to start, and then add minced garlic, green pepper shreds, rice wine, soy sauce and other condiments to put the soup in the pot. When the soup is slightly dry, add oil and starch and stir well with a spoon until the soup is dry and frothy. The eel color produced in this way is like coffee, the oil is tender and yellow, the color and flavor are complete, and the taste of the noodles is excellent.
In Shuanglin Town, like the A Cai Noodle Restaurant on Aiguo Road, the AMao Noodle Restaurant on Heng Street and several other long-established noodle restaurants, although the façade is small and the decoration is general, the eel noodles they make are very authentic.
In addition, Huzhou has a tradition of raising lake sheep since ancient times, and the sauce lamb made of lake sheep with cooking wine, soy sauce, sugar, red dates, ginger and other condiments has always been one of the specialties of Huzhou. And Huzhou's sauce lamb is the most famous in Nanxun.
(Nanxun) the city is cooking sheep with clear sauce, red like amber, but the winter moon has it, and it is bought near and far. Guncheng and Shuanglin are also good.
To this day, Nanxun's subordinate Shuanglin and Lianshi's sauced lamb is still very famous. Many shops sell lamb noodles as well as lamb. Therefore, when it comes to Shuanglin and Lianshi, this lamb noodle is not to be missed. Of course, when you encounter a shop that only sells lamb, you can also buy your own sauce lamb and take it back to drop a bowl of noodles to relieve your hunger.
However, no matter what kind of noodles, order a bowl in the small shop near the river in the ancient town, and the taste is excellent in the style of the ancient town and the water town.