"Boss, come two bowls of noodles, a bowl of vegetable tofu, and a bowl of peanut porridge."
This is the eternal breakfast collocation of thousands of Hanzhong people every morning, and it is also the nostalgia that the wandering Hanzhong wanderers are entangled in their hearts.
Hanzhong people who are away from home, every time they return to Hanzhong, the first thing they do when they get off the train is to go to the noodle shop to eat noodle skin. Whether it is Deng Huimin or Zhang Mingfu, all come to two bowls to relieve the hunger!
The dough is to the Hanzhong people, just as intestinal flour is to the Cantonese, donkey meat is burned to the Baoding people, and pancake fruit is to the Tianjin people. It is just need, it is life, it is the love of a lifetime.
Hanzhong, earlier belonged to Sichuan Province. It is now part of Shaanxi Province, but it is very different from the overall style of Shaanxi. Living habits and eating habits are still the same as in Sichuan, the climate is humid and hot, daily rubbing, slow pace of life, spicy taste, eating rice.
Just like the slogan of the official draft in Hanzhong: one city, two Han and three kingdoms, four seasons and colorful Hanzhong. In the colorful Han, the canola flowers are fragrant. Hanzhong has rape flowers that are not inferior to Wuyuan, rape flowers that spread over the mountains, and canola oil that is mellow and fragrant. Spicy seeds made with rapeseed oil are a perfect match for hot dough crusts.
Hanzhong's specialty is Hanzhong hot rice peel, which locals call "hot noodle skin". Because it is the just need and standard breakfast of Hanzhong people, "Breakfast China" and "China on the Tip of the Tongue" have recorded and reported on the hot noodle skin in Hanzhong.
Hanzhong hot dough is steamed in a basket drawer after being refined with rice, and cut into wide strips with a large knife. The bowl is bottomed with bean sprouts, shredded carrots, etc., and the hot dough skin is picked into the bowl with chopsticks, and then poured with secret seasoning water and drizzled with chili oil. A bowl of soft and sticky, fragrant but not spicy, lips and teeth, endless aftertaste of Hanzhong hot noodle skin is on the table.
Simple and humble Hanzhong people, wandering outside but never forgetting the hot dough skin of their hometown. The tone of the countryside is difficult to change, and the nostalgia is difficult to dispel. A bowl of hot dough and a hometown are the greatest comfort in the hearts of wanderers who are wandering outside.
Luckily, I found a particularly authentic dough shop in Beijing. The owner of the two is very down-to-earth, very diligent, very hospitable and very ambitious.
This is what a new generation of Hanzhong people should look like, and this is the doer who promotes Hanzhong cuisine.
I sincerely hope that Hanzhong hot dough skin can be known by more and more people, fall in love with its soft and mellow aroma, fall in love with the gentle Hanzhong, and also let the wanderers who are homesick eat the food of their hometown everywhere.
(Author: A son-in-law of Hanzhong.) ）