The story of Hanzhong hot noodle skin

As the saying goes: "The people take food as the sky", eating is a major event in life. The same ingredients, only to achieve the color, aroma, taste, shape, can be called the world's delicacies. Hanzhong hot noodle skin color fragrance all kinds of shapes!

China's local cuisine has a long history, such as xinjiang barbecue, chengdu hot pot, Fujian snacks, Shaanxi lamb steamed buns, Lanzhou ramen, Shandong baked cakes and so on. I may not be able to eat it in my lifetime, but today I would like to introduce you to the food that we Hanzhong people must eat every morning - Hanzhong hot noodle skin.

Hanzhong hot noodle skin is like a synonym for Hanzhong region, the first time to hanzhong tourism, the first breakfast is hot noodle skin vegetable tofu, just like we go to Xi'an will eat a bowl of lamb steamed buns.

In Hanzhong, hot noodle skin is known as a delicacy on the tip of the tongue, and it is the breakfast that Hanzhong people eat every day, and that feeling is like everyone getting up in the morning to see the sun is full of expectations.

Hanzhong hot dough is made of rice as raw material, after four processes, it took more than 6 hours to make a soft and smooth, white and powerful hot dough skin.

The first process, cleaning and soaking for 6 hours, let the selected rice drink enough water, a pinch of flour paste,

In the second process, after a clean electric grinding into a thick rice syrup, and then add water in proportion to dilute the adjustment, wake up the slurry for half an hour, so that the slurry water is fully integrated

The third process, with a special stainless steel cylinder scooped rice syrup on the special basket steaming for three minutes to cook, to cool after smearing with cooked rapeseed oil and then with a large wide knife cut into two finger wide strips, each strip is white, thin, light, tender, fine, soft, tough, fragrant,

Finally, supplemented by bean sprouts, spinach, shredded carrots, or shredded potatoes mixed with 35g of hot dough skin spicy oil, add 80g of 20 kinds of spice water, 4g of refined salt and other condiments, a bowl of red and green, yellow and white contrast, bright color, refreshing food, aromatic smell, unique flavor A bowl of hot dough skin can be served.

Since ancient times, in Hanzhong, Hanzhong people have the habit of entertaining relatives and friends with noodles.

There are still three allusions in Hanzhong

　　It is said that the dough skin in Hanzhong originated from 231 BC to 213 BC, when Qin Shi Huang reigned, there were 100,000 acres of rice fields in Hanzhong, there was a year of drought and no rain, the rice fields dried up, the rice laid down was all rice straw, the quality of the rice milled was too poor to pay tribute to the emperor, and the peasants were deeply afraid of the crime of deceiving the king, and they were very anxious and panicked.

At that time, there was a farmer surnamed Zhu, who crushed the new rice into a very fine powder, sifted it, then mixed it with water into a paste, and then poured it on the koshiki and steamed it into strips, called dough skin, and everyone tasted it.

He came to the main hall with the dough skin and the people of the tribute, and offered the dough to Qin Shi Huang, who ate the dough skin and found it delicious and appreciated it, and ordered that in the future, the tribute in the Hanzhong region could only be made of rice.

There's another story

　　According to legend, Liu Bang claimed the title of king in Hanzhong and ordered Xiao He to build a mountain and river weir, and the grain harvest was bumper year after year. In order to improve their lives, farmers dilute rice noodles with water, steam them into pancakes, cut them into strips and mix them cold, and eat them, which tastes beautiful.

One day, Liu Bang went on a visit and entered the people's home, and the hospitable peasants were served with cold steamed cake strips. Liu Bang praised while eating, asked about the name, the farmer could not say it, Liu Bang listened to the production method haha smiled, and said: "This is a steamed cake also." ”

Later, people switched to overlapping bamboo cages, which could be steamed several times at a time, and they were large and bookable. Cut into thin strips, the tendons are flexible, soft and continuous, just like leather strips, renamed "dough skin".

　　Speaking of dough, there is also a story of a "dough prefect" in Hanzhong.

During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Mou, a Hanzhong man, served as a county official in Ruyang, Henan. One year, the imperial court sent a minister of Chincha to Ruyang to inspect, and Zhang ZhiXian did not prepare a banquet, only the noodles of his hometown were simply entertained. Minister Chincha ate and drank along the way, felt greasy in the morning, tasted the dough skin, and was overjoyed. Asked about the production method, Zhang Zhixian gave advice one by one. Soon after Chincha returned to the dynasty, Zhangzhi County was promoted to the prefect of Luoyang. People unanimously guessed that it was likely that a meal of noodle skin was pleasing to Chincha, and the son of heaven was promoted to a knighthood by playing a beautiful word. The matter was passed back to Hanzhong and was jokingly called "the prefect of Mianpi" by the common people.

Hanzhong people all have "skin feelings". Business trips, study, work outside as long as you return to Hanzhong, get off the bus, do not go to the hotel, do not go to the Chinese restaurant, the first stop must be the noodle shop, see the hot dough skin, you can't wait to casually put the luggage, first come to a bowl of hot dough skin, and then with a bowl of sauerkraut tofu, a mouthful of dough skin a mouthful of tofu, and then a big bite of tofu sour soup, that is called a cool, even if the big fish and meat are not hot dough skin vegetable tofu addiction.

As an authentic Hanzhong person, a bowl of hot noodle skin vegetables and tofu is essential every morning, and if you don't believe it, you can look at the noodle shops that line up every day every day every morning, and you will know how popular hot noodle skin is.

Hanzhong hot noodle skin is not only common at the breakfast table, but also darling on the night market stalls, as long as you visit the night market in Hanzhong at night, you will see a stall with a special number of people, a long queue, that is a hot noodle skin stall, so hot noodle skin in Hanzhong is a set of thousands of pets in one of the delicacies!